THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 October 1913, Page 5

THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)•)

BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY.

LARKIN GIVES EVIDENCE

(Received October 6, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, October 5,

At the Board of Trade inquiry regarding the Dublin industrial dispute, Mr Murphy, chairman of the Tramways Company, accused Larkin's paper, The Irish Worker, of inciting to murder. He said there had been more strikes since Larkin's advent on the scene than in the whole industrial history of the ciiy^_ Mr Larkin gave evidence. He heatedly described the conditions of life in Dublin, including that of 21,-' 000 families in one-roomed tenements. Christ, he said, was not going to be crucified in Dublin by the masters any longer. If the men were forced back after a long, weary .struggle,, the'time would,come when,they would break the bonds and give blow i for blow. , * ' ' . DEADLOCK THREATENED.

(Received October 6, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 5

A deadlock is threatened. The Dublin Trades Council claims reinstatement of the workers as a preliminary to any settlement of the dispute. Mr Tim Healy, K.C., on behalf of the employers, intimated that the masters refused to dismiss workers engaged during the strike. Mr Gosling, on behalf of the men, declwied that this was victimisation, and that the fight must continue. ' Sir George Ask.with, Industrial Commissioner, will, however, continue the inquiry on Monday next.