THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 5

THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

EMPLOYERS ADAMANT. (Received Last Night, 5.50 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 27. The employers of Dublin have rejected the Lord Mayor's suggested basis for negotiations, but state that they will welcome a Board of Trade inquiry. ' ' SUFFERING IN DUBLIN. •* CHILDREN PRAY FOR FOOD. ENGLISH WORKERS TO THE RESCUE. (Received Sept. 27, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 26. 'The loading of the steamer Hare at Manchester with 340 tons of food to relieve the starving families of the Dublin strikers created a record in trade union annals. One hundred and thirty volunteers, -working day and night; packed fifteen _ thousand boxes of groceries and thirty ; thou- ; sand ten-pound packages of potatoes, while the dockers' on strike loaded th'e vessel (is an expression of their sympathy. The goods will be distributed in Dublin on Saturday next. Nearly one hundred thousand men, women, and children are suffering from cold and hunger. Many pitiable stories are recounted in the slums, where many families sacrificed their poor household furnishings to provide bread. In one jfcenement starving children were Joftthd,' praying for food b.fefbi*§ the Blessed Virgin's shrine. DISTURBANCE FOLLOWS AN ARREST. CONSTABLE SERIOUSLY IN- v JURED. (Received Sept. 27, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 26. A disturbance in Dublin followed the'arrest of a disorderly striker. A crowd attacked.the police, and two constables were, so seriously injured that they had to be sient to hospital. THE FIGHTING FUND. WARM WELCOME. * (Received Sept, 27, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 26. The decision of £he employers to .establish a fight fund is warmly welcomed by captains of industry, who irfSist that the movement is not hostile to genuine unionism. Labour leaders claim that it will hasten the consolidation of unionism.