CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION MASS MEETING BULL RING, BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY, 19th AUG., 3 p.m. Speakers—DESMOND GREAVES (Nat. Sec., Connolly Association) PAT DOOLEY "Ireland's Place in New World Order." M(Incorporatin OCg "Irish Freedom"R) AT "Inadequate Travel Facilities."

Vw Series No. 8 AUGUST, 1945 Price 3d. Biggest Anti-Tory Vote in Six-Counties FTER twenty-five years of scandalous misgovernment, A'th e Stormont Tory clique at long last are losing their grip Mystery on the people of the Six Counties. That is the stimulating con- clusion one must form after analysis of the Election figures issued last month. True, Baronet Brooke and his mandarins are going of the bac!: to power. But they return badly shaken by the biggest ever anli-Tory vote in the North—162,147 for the Opposition parties Republic against 184,206 for the Government—and they will be minus By Our Political their astute Chief Whip, one of the first casualties in an electoral Correspondent contest fought with unprecedented vigour and dash by the rPHE mystery of Eire's con- stitutional position has progressive forces in the Province. only deepened by Mr. de Valera's sensational July 11th \ IDED by a blatant system of gerry- lost later, when Hungerford defeated Mr. "We are a Republic" state- Jack McGougan, then secretary of the mandering, one of the few spheres in ment in the Dail. which the Tories show a not inconsider- N.I. Socialist Party. Whether Mr. de Valera was able talent, Sir Basil will have a majority In the Dock Area of Belfast, Mr. Hugh unintentionally provoked by oi seats in the new House. But this time, Downey, an official of the Transport Wor- Mr. Dillon's persistent inter- however, he will face a strong Opposition kers' Union, won from Clark, the son of a ruptions into making an un- group, which will include 10 attending former wealthy director of Workman guarded reply, or whether he Nationalists, several Independents, and an Clark's, the big shipbuilding firm. Dock, deliberately chose the occa- active i: diversified Left Wing bloc of five. too, was formerly a Labour seat. Midgley sion to define Eire's position The Northern Ireland Labour Move- lost it in 1938, partly because he lost the in world affairs, is not clear. ment has certainly no cause for discour- Catholic vote consequent on his attitude agement. In practically every case the during the Spanish civil war, and partly Frequently asked on pre- Labour candidates^ received substantial due to the intervention of Mr. J. Collins, vious occasions what was the support. In Belfast in particular, and Bel- who was then a member of the Nationalist country's exact constitutional fast represents almost half of the Six- party. position, Mr. de Valera has always given an evasive an- County electorate, the progressive candi- The Falls constituency, for so long a swer. Now, unexpectedly, dates did better than the most hopeful stronghold of the Devlinite Nationalists, with a casual brevity which could have expected. Here the anti-Tory was won by the Republican Socialist, Mr. astonished Ireland and vote actually was greater than that for H. Diamond. In a triangle contest the MR. DE VALERA amused the world, he told the Government—92,917, against 87,919. Nationalist came in third; Collins, who Mr. Dillon: "If that's all the The State is what it is and not what after leaving the Nationalists, joined the LABOUR VICTORY Deputy wants to know, Eire I say it is or think it is." Labour Party only to leave it and help to One c-f the earliest results' flashed was is a Republic." that announcing a Labour victory in Old- found the so-called Federation of Labour, DICTIONARY DEFINITION Park, where Bob Getgood, ex-chairman of was a thousand behind Mr. Diamond. we haven't been tQld before. Why, if it all Shrewd judges thought Collins likely to Pressed for a definition of a republic, the Irish T.U.C., and one of the most depends upon the Constitution, wasn't the Mr. de Valera took refuge in quotations win in Falls. Republic formally declared on December dynamic figures in the N.I. Labour Move- from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, En- 29th, 1937—the date on which the new ment. ousted Sir Wilson Hungerford. Old Mr. Jack Beattie again had a close vic- cyclopaedia Americana, Webster's, the Ox- Constitution came into fqree? Park, where there is a fairly numerous tory in Pottinger over the Tory nominee. ford Shorter and New Standard Diction- Catholic population, was once held by Mr Mr. Beattie, it must be noted, ran as an aries. "If anyone still persists in main- EFFECT ON EIRE CITIZENS IN Sam Kvle in the Labour interest, but was Unofficial Labour man; although he, too, taining that our State is not a Republic," BRITAIN is a founder of the so-called Federation of he concluded, "I cannot argue with him, Nor is it at all clear as to how his state- Labour, he did not run on that ticket. for we have no common language." ment, will affect Eire citizens abroad. Be- Beattie will also probably scrape home for Asked to state definitely whether Eire fore the war Irish men and women could : Fighting Fund : West Belfast in the British General Elec- was in or out of the Commonwealth, the move freely in and out of Britain without tion, but I imagine his majority will be Taoiseach replied: "We are an indepen- passport or other restrictions. They nothing like that of 1943. dent Republic associated as a matter of could take or leave a job with as much | KEEP IT UP | BIG VOTE FOR COMMUNISTS our external policy with the States of the freedom as a British worker. No special Ministry of Labour permits were needed • T AM feeling very pleased this month. : Two of the most stirring campaigns British Commonwealth"—a reply which as in the case of, for example, French or j 1 Our Fund has started to mount j were waged in the Cromac and Bloomfield provoked an opposition Deputy to remark, German citizens. I up and although we didn't lilt the £20 • constituencies of Belfast. In Cromac, Miss that In that case we were a "constitutional • target we have done very well indeed. ! Betty Sinclair, a former millworker and a monstrosity." The great question mark which now j To all those who responded so gen- : leading member of the Communist Party, In the debate which followed, Mr. de hangs uneasily over all Irish people in : erously to my appeal I send our sin- ; received over 4.000 votes against 8,497 cast Valera quoted extensively from the Con- Britain is whether these valuable privi- • cere thanks. I realise there are many | stitution to prove that we were a "sover- leges will be restored after the war, or • calls on the weekly pay packet and the j for Maynard Sinclair, Finance Minister and deputy to Baronet Brooke in the late eign, independent, democratic State," and whether we will in future be treated as j enormous effort required to part with ; fully-fleged aliens, and become hedged in ; any of the few remaining shillings. • Cabinet. This is the first time that Left therefore, in his opinion, a Republic. "The by all sorts of passport and employment • I wish I had space to tell you how : ever made a sortie against the Tories of State is what it is, and not what I say or regulations, accepted willingly in war-time, : much your donations mean to the ; Cromac, and the support given Miss Sin- think it is," he said. but definitely irritating in times of peace. j "Democrat" and how urgently we • clair, both by the Catholic and Unionist But, if Eire has been a Republic for | need them. Our expenses are heavier j (Continued on Page Five) eight years, the question arises as to why ^Editorial comment on page three.! I than we are able to bear alone, and on • ; you we depend to see us over our fin- ! ; ancial difficulties. • : Please help me to get that £20 this ; Black Market in Nailing? Tickets • month. It isn't really a big sum to | • ask and yet we haven't somehow been : : able to make it yet. We can do it this : : time if everybody helps. • Please send donations to: Molly Hill. ; IRISH TRAVEL CRISIS-PROTESTS TO BE MADE • "Irish Democrat," Premier House,. : HE Irish travel crisis goes from bad to by other boats even smaller and more ob- It is a common experience in London pubs : Southampton Row, London, W.C'.l. T worse. So great has been the demand solete. frequented by Irishmen to be offered a • * * * ! for sailing tickets on the Rosslare-Flsh- "We cannot promise to release ships en- ticket for £3. • Helen (Bonnington, London, 6 -; J. j guard route, that the service is completely gaged on war work,' a Ministry of War Now that the authorities have taken : V. Stewart, Co. Down, 1 • /-; M. Hayes ; booked up until September 7th. At Eus- Transport spokesman told our reporter. welcome steps to curb the re-sale of tickets i 2/-; Sgt. Hagan, B.L.A., 18/-; Miss J. | ton people are standing all night in queues Asked whether he could offer any hope by requiring applicants to give their pass- i M'N'aul, Dampstead, 10/6, J. J. Con- \ of easing the shipping situation by Christ- port or travel permit numbers, we suggest: | ian, London, 2/6; M. Dillon, Surrey, : a hundred yards long waiting to book 1 16,-; N. Gallagher, London, 10/-; Sgt. \ tickets, although they are only being mas, this official stated: "You may rest (1) the restoration of the twice-daily ser- • Harding, Norfolk, 1/-; C. Murphy, Ox- [ issued 2« days In advance. assured that as soon as we possibly can vice from Holyhead be given the highest J ford, 1/-; J. Freshwater, London, 2/-; : When the mailboat sprang a leak in Dun something will be done to ease the Irish priority in allotments from the. shipping j L.H.D. 2/-; Mim P. Thomas, Herts., | Laohaire harbour recently the daily ser- travel situation." pool; and (2) the ban on holiday visits by • 5/-; Leprachaun, London, 10/-; P. | vice was temporarily cancelled, and as a BLACK MARKET IN TICKETS British citizens be re-imposed. Irish mem- • Kenny, Rugby, 10/-; E. Sandford, L»n- : result, thousands who had booked for those Ever since the sailing-ticket system was bers of the Forces arfti those engaged in : don, !0/-; F. Campbell, 11/-; Sgt. particular dates have Most their only Introduced this paper has pointed out the war work should get first preference. • Thornton, U.S." Army, 18/-; Mr. M. • Cremin, Dublin, 1«/-; P. Maher, Wal- chance of getting home this summer. abuses to which it might lead. With It Is hoped to send a deputation to rait* • tham, J/-; V. D. Dwyer, Cornwall, An "Irish Democrat" reporter, investi- thousands of people clamouring to get this matter with the Minister of War j 1/-; Gen. GougH, London, £1; J. M. gating travel conditions, points out that home on a well-deserved holiday, it was Transport at toon as the new House of : Henna, Birmingham, 9/-; Miss Lyons the L.M.S. passenger fleet, launched in no wonder that a "ticket racket" came into Commons assemble* Those anxious to ; London. 2/8; P. Kenny, Rugby, 9/-; M. 1920, was already admitted to be out of existence. Weary war workers queuing support such a delegation should, write at J J Moore 1/-; M. J. McKlnney V"! date In 1938. During the war these ships at Euston have been approached by touts onoe to the Connolly Association, im : I-iam 1/6.—Total £10. were put on war work, and were replaced offering tickets at as much as £5 each. Southampton Row, -W.C.I. mm

August, 1945 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August, 1945 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT f LETTERS TO THE EDITOR IRISH DEMOCRAT KOOM 117. PREMIER HOUSE, 130 SOUTHAMPTON HOW, CHURCH IN NEW POLAND LONDON, W.C.I All communications to be addressed lo tlie Editor, Elann Campbell. TOREHOUS Telephone No.: Ter. 3900 It \TE—Twelve Months 1 - ENJOYS FULL FREEDOM S i x Months 2 - Till Catholic Church in Silesia enjoys Denouncing "the cult of force, idolatry and trine which was a.s pernicious n was lull freedom. Kellgiaus life is coming blood, oppression of human liberty and dig- ruthless. into its own. Gradually we are resuming all nity." the Pope said that the teachings of The struggle against the Ohurch grew lot ms of our religious activity. The authori- -National Socialism and the Catholic Church more and more bitter. It was the destruc- ties of the l'olish Provisional Government, were in fundamental opposition. The leaders tion of Catholic organisations, the increasing THE REAL far from interfering with this revival of the of Germany had tried to destroy the Church, suppression of the flourishing public and work of the Catholic Church, are supporting but Providence had decreed otherwise. private Catholic schools, the compulsory 4 CHAR A.—Raving often read your paper I.R.A. PRISONERS MR. SEAN LEMASS it. We are particularly glad that our chil- THOSE CONDOLENCES- Declaring that they h^cf failed to organise severance of youth from family and school, -1 v.ith interest ,md appreciation uhpugh T is truly unn/ing to find John Ireland dren will not only again attend Polish U'E would like to bring tile following united opposition against Nazism, the Pope the oppression brought to bear upon the often diMlgreeintt' with some of jour points WHO IS OUT OF STEP ? I schools but will also receive Catholic reli- »' matter to the attention ol your using space in the "Irish Democrat" ir. said that new dignity and new life would conscience of the citizen, especially the civil - -.-.S you might expect! i I would like to offer REPUBLIC gious instruction as before, and in the Polish SPHERE are several items in. your June readers. There are at present about fifty order to explain Mr. Lemass, and (appar- arise in Germany after the "Satanic spectre" servants. a suggestion for your columns. The recent language." JL issue that call for comment. Irish political prisoners still serving sen- ently to hold out a hope that he may ye', of National Socialism had been banished and treat influx ol Irish workers to Great Bri- igOTHING could better illustrate It was a systematic- deformation through The front page article. "Why till Irishmen tences in English prisons, many of whom This statement by Dr. Stanislae Adamski, the guilty punished for their crimes. tain has brought here, as you know, men and with proper tutelage, become an asset to a thoroughly-organised and prepared propa- should vote Labour" fails to give some sub- have not received a visit from anyone dur- the Alice-in-Wonderland atmos- Catholic Bishop of Katawice, effectively an- women from ail parts ol the 26 and Six Irish Labour. We can all agree that he Quoting the Encyclical of Pope Pius XI ganda, of the clergy, of the laity, of institu- stantial reason why they should. Instead ing the past six years. phere of Irish politics to-day than swers those reactionary Irish newspapers on the persecution of the Church in Ger- Counties, and quite a considerable propor- is a very able man and has behind him it: which have attempted to give the impres- tions, doctrines and history. Religious houses you do your best to smeav De Valera with Many of us feel that, whatever our own Mr. De Valera's recent definition of many in 1937. he said: tion of them are fluent Irish speakers, many the Department of Industry and Com- sion that the Church has been persecuted were closed down, dissolved, and confiscated. the mud that oozes out of Churchill and political ideas, on humanitarian grounds even from the Gaeliacht itself. Surely then, merce some very able advisors. Eire's constitutional position. " If under the new democratic Government of Whosoever raises race, or people, or state, The Press and Catholic publications were Brooke; and not for the first time either. these men and girls should not be forgotten or any specific form of it, the representative annihilated. the time is ripe for a column in the native Bui trade unionists could not hope for a that's all the deputy wants to know," Poland. language in one of the few papers written You don't seem to realise that though Dev's by their fellow countrymen. of Govermental power or other fundamental home policy left something to be desired fair deal from the man who imposed tht he announces casually, replying to a solely for the Irish worker. Many people We intend to establish a fund to enable GOVERNMENT AID elements of human society, to the supreme DETERMINED TO DESTROY (price fixing and stricter rationing, for in- Trade Union Act upon them, and query by Mr. Dillon, "Eire is a Re- may mistakenly object to the language, on relatives to visit the prisoners, to provide Paying tribute to (he practical way in rulership of everything, even of religious CHURCH stance! his foreign policy of neutrality, in- threatens them with still further restric- the grounds that it has been exploited as an books for which any prisoner expresses a public." which the Government has helped to restore values, and deifies them with idolatrous prac- Although complete statistical data are cluding his condolences on the death of tions noon their rights if they show them- election slogan by political parties who have need, and particularly to help any man on religious life, the Bishop writes: tices, perverts and falsifies the order of not yet available, we cannot refrain from little or no real interest in it, or that it. has Hitler, had the wholehearted support of 99 selves lacking in docility. things created and ordained by God. his release until such time as he can obtain Thus in an offhand fashion, with as 'The Government of the Polish Republic mentioning here as example one or two often been debased to the level of a racket, per cent, of Irish people. The other one per employment. He, too, is mainly responsible for the much ceremony as though he were in- has been particularly helpful with regard to In the teaching of this Encyclical the fun- of the pitiful instances brought to our by those whose one concern was a soft job cent, represents Irish quislings at home and troducing a bill for the elimination the restoration of wrecked churches. The damental opposition between National notice by priests and laymen from the in civil or public service, but these things abroad. We stress tin- fact that this is a non- lowest possible ceiling upon wages during Silesian provincial authorities are actively Socialism and the Catholic Church is camp of Dachau who were deemed worthy are only superficial. Those who turn the You describe Mr. De Valera's broadcast political and non-sectarian movement and the emergency, whilst allowing prices to of the warble fly, he announces to a helping us to restore the Church of the formulated. to suffer contumely in the name of Jesus. Gaelic to these ignoble ends, would do the reply to Churchill as concilatory. In the would be glad if any reader who is interested soar to starry heights, and he has allowed thunderstruck Dail that the Republic Transfiguration in Katowice and have prom- same with any good or popular cause, if it opinion of these Irish with whom I have would attend a meeting to be held at 5 p.m. and still allows the rich to grow richer at First in number and severity of treatment for which so many generations have ised to help us in the restoration of other SATANIC SPECTRE OF NAZISM were the Polish priests. Between 1940 and suited them, and in fact have often dope so. contacted it was a model of statesmanlike on Sunday. 12th August, at the Tara Hall. the cost of the poor. fought, suffered and laid down their Catholic places of worship." For aver 12 years, among the best of our 1945, 2,800 Polish ecclesiastics and religious utterance, intelligence and high principle. It 390/4 Brixton Road, Brixton. S.W.9. No The fact remains that the native speech On what grounds does John Ireland mature life, we lived among the German persons were interned at Dachau. They in- did their hearts good to read it. Are you subscriptions accepted at this stage but those lives is in existence and hag been so Describing the persecution of the Church and literature is, if only from the cultural who are unable to attend are invited to base his statement that "Mr. Lemass under the Nazis, he says: nation. cluded the Auxiliary Bishop of Poznan, who the only one on the right step? for eight years without anyone realisT point of view, a rich storehouse of our na- write to the acting Secretary. seems to be trying genuinely to seek a We thus learned to know the great quali- died of typhus. By last April there remained tion's history and traditions, an inheri- A few months ago you mentioned that ing it. So unimportant does the "Irish "The Catholic clergy throughout Foland solution of the nation's economic ills that suffered a great deal at the hands of the ties of that nation and were .in personal con- only 816. The others, except two or three tance of which no Irish worker need feel Jack Beattie. M.P. had left the Northern The Committee have received promises of Press" regard this staggering piece of will not unduly favour any one section of German invaders. Our priests were perse- tact with its leading personalities. We are, who were transferred to other camps, had ashamed. Ireland Labour Party. Now I know that he active support and co-operation from sev- news that it relegates it to the bottom cuted. (lung into prison, deported to concen- therefore, confident t :at it may arise again all died. Connolly himself recognised the truth and left it because the Party policy favours the eral Irish organisations in the Provinces the community?" of a column in small type bdldw a tration camps. More than fifty priests of to a new dignity and a new life after banish- In the summer of 1942, 840 German-speak- the power of these things, and openly pro- retention of Partition. Did you know' that and Scotland. If Mr. Lemass is genuinely seeking Katowice • Diocese alone perished in camps ing the Satanic spectre of National Social- ing pastors were reported in that camp. Of claimed that the foundations of his vision when you baxked the Labour Party against report about the disposal of sewage. Is raise le meas a solution to the nation's economic ills, at Oswiecim, Oranienburg, Dachau and ism and after the guilty, as we have already these 45 were Protestant clergy; all others were inspired by the social structure of Beattie? If you di3t orify Tor the-war tion wtiloh Inspired TJiMftMd Wolfe Tone, all of us to see that we never do. from the U.S.A., Canada and Britain to the neWspapfer irtan with a" p^rsUaSlve m&riher. undotrtrtWiy true thit" WWiJIhI la' Dacfc lt Is be seen- thai Slir Basil Brooke Wtll to Trte'-Irtflh DenftcAt* endeavour* to'Item tht ! do more than come out with the customary but for any conceivable occasion; that tny 'the "father" of Irish Republicanism., Yet EWART MILNE factories he would start. also* (SrOe 'thkt the pfotfiteetoe fo&es tii the Irish workers In BfctAtrttf area have awakened out of thUtf flJiSf Bleep. Unionist babble and blah to get by. country should offer asylum to any such I am not aware of any congratulations Asslngton, Suffolk. JAMES KELLY (Sgt., Irish Guards) August, 1945 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August, 1945 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT « LARKIN | PRESS COMMENT • Japanese Murder Irish Priests I R A. CHIEF PROPOSED WHAT IS TO HAPPEN TO GERMANS r M WO PROTESTS ••DICTATOR HITLER" RESOLUTIO N requesting Ml'. Do Mr. M. Moran, T.D. (F.F.i. said that the RE-INTERNED FOR MAYOR GOVERNMENT KEPT CLOSE The internets include men who are V:il»ra. a.s Mmis!>T for External resolution should not be accepted, as it was Til \T certain leading members of the WATCH ON NAZIS highly skilled ;n various occupations, in- j Orange Doom j • ; a form ol propaganda and an attack on Mr. A Irish Republican Army h ho had been T a recent meeting of the Dublin Cor- In Eire the Government has always cluding watch making and repairing, out ir s, io press she Japanese Government. IN EIRE? • LJRITISH Press comment on the : De Valcra. recently released fram the Curragh were V poration, Coun. James Larkin (Sen.) been alert to prevent similar tieachery and they are unable to work at their trades in *.hr wth i;.-. representatives in Dublin, lor an Mr. (alferky: A blush came to the cheek ; -I * Northern election results was r.on- : meeting illegally arid plotting the murder of was proposed as the new Lord Mayor but By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT we may completely discount rumours in their present circumstances. eariv .explanation as io the circumstances in of even Irishman when he read in the daily ! committal, mast papers failing to print • police officials, was alleged by Mr. De Valera withdrew his nomination after protesting "ii'HAT is to happen to the 300 Germans v. h:ch lour Irish priest* were murdered in the papers that, following the annour .-ement of the sensational British and American NO JOBS '. editorial comments of any kind. An • in the Dail recently. against what he described as the "intrigue ' ' still in Eire? Are they to be allowed • • Philippines, was passed unanimously by the the death of dictator Hitl-r. Mr. De Valera Press about submarines re-fuelling on When one of the internees was asked ; exception Has the Communist "Daily - with which it had been carried out." •o remain in the country, be handed over Mavo Co. Council. li.'d rushed out. hat in hand, to the German Describing' how an I.R.A. meeting had lonely Irish coasts, but there can be no what he felt about the surrender of the • Worker" which published an editorial ; been held at which an appeal for new mem- Aid. P. Doyle, T.D. (Fine Gaeli v.as later 'ci the Allies or returned to Germany. Mr. J. Blowick. T.D.. said that the tragic Embassy in Dublin to lender the condo- doubt that if Germany had invaded Eire German army, he sa.d: "The German under the headline, " t) RANGE • bers was made. Mr. De Valera said that the elected by 21 votes to 19 for Coun. Cormac deaths ol these Irish priests had touched the lences of the people ol Eire on the passing of They include the five Nazi diplomats, in 1940 utnd obviously they would have High Command let us down. I am sorry • DOOM." 5 a man who had committed suicide by taking Government had been forced to re-intern Breathnach, T.D. (Fianna Fail). • » hearts of the people, and it was at least due w ho the Americans requested should be re- done .so if they had tried the invasion of Hitler is dead." | The following is the text of the edi- jj poison, or. perhaps, had got himself shot, the former I.R.A. Chief of.Staff. Coun. J. Brcen had proposed Conn. James to the Irish people to be told under what cir- moved last year—Eduard Hempel, German Britain i. it woulfi have been information "What is the use of my going back to I tonal: £ cumstances they had been killed. while Mr. De Valera had not the courage to At one time there were about 450 political Larkin. and this was seconded by Miss H. Chenevix, but, after Aid. Doyle had been Minister to Eire since 1937: Henning supplied by Hempel and his fellow-Nazis Germany if there is no job for me? I Mr. D. CalTerky, T.D. It', nil T ). said that go to the Japanese Ambassador and protest internees in Eire. The large majority were • THE figures of the polling in the : proposed, Coun. Larkin—protesting vehe- Thomsen, Legation Secretary; Johannes which would have sabotaged the defence am a skilled mechanic. Ail I want is even when the Minister for External Affairs against the murder of Irish pYiests in the Inembers of the IR.A. The last of these in- | -L elections for the Northern Ireland ; mently against "the intrigue that had been plans of the Irish Army. Doubtless, Hem- work and a wage. » had been informed of the matter from Wash- Philippines. ternees were released soon after the end of Bruchans, Legation Chancellor. Wilhelm ; Parliament foreshadow a transforma- - carried out"—withdrew. General Muleahy, pel had also prepared lists of potential "There will be no jobs in Iieland for us ington, he had made 110 protest; but the mo- "That." he added, "was the unnatural con- the war in Europe. Muller. Consular Secretary: all of whom I tion of the political outlook in that s dition of affairs. It is the people of Eire, he alleged, had given orders that he iMr, Irish fifth column collaborators who would when the workers return from England." I area that will have far-reaching • ment the radio announced the death of "GERMAN AGENTS" have been in Eire since 1938. and Karl and not Mr. De Valera. who spell neutrality." Larkin) should not be supported. He hoped be useful to an occupying German army, ; results. ! Hitler there was a rush to the German Proposing that the powers of internment Petersen, Press Attache since 1939. - • Mr. Blowick said it would be a terrible that the Labour Party would abstain from Embassy to tender condolence on the death be continued, Mr. De Valera said that when and also lists of Communist, Labour and ! The Tory victory in seats is quite a jj state of affairs if the Catholic Co. Council voting. Most notorious of thes$ is Petersen, who of the dictator who had drenched Europe the war had ended and they had decided trade union sympathisers who could be NEW LABOUR M.P. ? ; temporary triumph. The score of ! of Mayo could not pass a vote of sympathy came to Dublin early in 1939 as correspon- and many other parts of the world in blood, "with a certain amount of misgiving" to re- After the result was declared, a voice quickly rounded up. • 176,629 oppositional against 178,762 : without having it described as political in- dent for the official German News Agency and who had destroyed the proudest monu- lease the internees, that they had been from the packed gallery exclaimed: "Shame : Unionist votes shows that the sands jj trigue. and the Deutsche Ailegemeine Zeitung. INTERNEES ments of civilisation. warned that a certain number of these men on Labour." Mr. Larkin shouted: "It was ; af age-long Tory domination in North- jj who were under suspicion in the past for not a sham? on Labour, but on those we and later joined the Legation officially. In a different category are the internees ; ern Ireland have not long to run. : crimes such as murder and armed robbery have got in the Labour Party." Daring the war his activities have con- at the Curragh who now number about : Since partition. Northern Ireland Z sisted mainly of intereference with the 300. On parole and allowed to move with- would immediately set about reorganising LOW WAGE ORDER • lias been bossed by a reactionary Z I OUR DUBLIN CORRESPONDENT : and returning to their old ways. Despite this, right of the Press to criticise Nazism, and in ten miles' radius of the camp, they can I clique that has based its corrupt dicta- jj Butchers Demand Coun. J. Breen (Lab.) said that they had the Government decided to give them a providing lavish hospitality to anti-Semi- visit Dublin 30 miles away so long as they I torship upon exploitation of the most • | A I R. JOHN IRELAND will act as j decided to vote against Fianna Fail on ac- chance to get back to normal life. • backward passions, relgious fanati- : • ^ our regular Dublin Correspon- : count of the Trade Union Act and the Low tic circles in Dublin. are back by midnight. • cism and prejudice. ; • dent now that the Censorship has : MR. JAMES DILLON (Independent) said Wage Order, and the allegation that had Without jobs or friends or money, and They include some 160 survivors from Fortnight's Holiday • Habeas corpus—the ancient right of Z ; been lifted. • that the powers of internment which Mr. been made during the election that they their Embassy occupied by the Americans, German warships who were rescued by an By JOHN IRELAND I the citizen not to forfeit liberty with- ; • Mr. Ireland, who is a history : l)e Valera wanted to continue were granted were obstructing the work of the Council. these Nazis are in a-desperate plight. Irish ship in the Bay of Biscay, following Our Dublin Corresponder.lt to him because there was an intrigue be- ; out trial—has been set aside, and poii- • • scholar of New College, Oxford, j It was the Fianna Fail machine, and not a naval engagement in January, 1944. tween the I.R.A. and the German Govern- Bat no Irishman, knowing the way in ; tical arrests, detentions in prison Z \ T the time of writing the pickets are i comes from Robertstown, Co. Kil- : the members of Fianna Fail, they objected Then there are 47 members of the crew I camps and prison hulks have been the • - i out all over DuDiin in the biggest in- ment to hand over Eire to the German Army which Nazi Legations were used as cen- dare. Joining the British Labour : to. There was no intrigue. of a submarine which was damaged and I order of the da v. : dustrial struggle for years. The workers and because German agents were discovered 11ps of espionage and fifth column activity • • • Party in 1932, he later was assocf- : scuttled off the Cork coast recently. demand a fotmight's paid holidays annu- plotting fur the overthrow of the Eire Gov- Coun. Deasy (Lab.) said that it had been in other countries, will waste any sym- ! The boundaries of constituencies ; stated that they had aligned themselves with Apart from these sailors, the internees ally. If they win. they have won the first : ated with the Irish Movement in : ernment. pathy on them. : have been rigged to swell the majori- : the Fascists and Blueshirts. are composed of men of the German Air i. ties af the Tory dominators. Press fa- : round in the post-war battle for produc- : Manchester. He lost his job in 1939 : SIX COUNTY INTERNEES Since 1933 German diplomats have Force whose machine made forced land- pN'ilities and halls for meetings have • tion. The workers of Ireland say more : and became secretary of the Derry : RELEASED They had in Ireland to-day the essence of never been "non-political" in the normal ings in this country during the war. : been denied to critics. Persecution re- • pioduclion can only be guaranteed after : Labour Party in 1940, eventually : Some Six-County political internees are Fascism—the moral undermining of the m m the achievement of reasonable working : settling in Dublin and became secre- to be released, the Minister for Home Af- workers' organisation, and that was the form diplomatic sense. Specially chosen as Up to some five months ago, the inter- ; inforced by artificially excited mob law - conditions; the employers, with Govern- : tary of the Dublin Labour Party in \ fairs in Belfast, has announced. of Fascism Fianna F'ail was carrying out fanatical Fascists, their main task was nees received payment according to rank, ; has been used against every protesting : ment support, believe that production is in- ruthlessly. Fianna Fail represented the big- not to maintain friendly relations between : 1943-44. He is now working on ! In a statement to the Press, Mr. Edward but these payments ceased—owing to the I voice. finitely more important than conditions. gest and greatest anti-working class force in Germany and the country to which exhaustion of German credits—and the ; On this background the figures re- jj If the employers' ring wins this strike it : Arnold Marsh's Social Reconstruc- ; Warnock. K.C.. the Minister, stated: "The the nation to-day. they were accredited, but to spread Nazi internees are now provided officially only Z corded in the elections for the local jj will break the Union's hold on an industry : tion Group and is associated with • country is at the moment quiet and the re- propaganda. In those countries marked with nations and accommodation. : Parliament spell the doom of the cor- Z where the closed shop has long operated, : the new Irish monthly. "Review." • cent elections were conducted in a manner which gives ground for satisfaction. Further- out as victims of Fascist aggression they A number of the men have found em- ; rupt regime. No longer is a backward : and this will be the signal for a savage •••••••••••••••(••••••••••llltlllllllllllllllltllllMII* • electorate content to return automatic ; more. we are within a few days of an event INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE prepared the way for Quisling treachery, ployment in turf-cutting and others have attack on all trade union positions. : and overwhelming power to Big Busi- 5 which will give profound pleasure to the by anti-Jewish, anti-Labour and anti-de- earned small incomes by making models people of Northern Ireland" (visit of King The following name was omitted from CAPT. HUGH DELARGY ; ness concealed under an Orange shirt. ! X NEW SPIRIT IN CONGRESS TORY PARTY—by Winston mocratic agitation. from wood and other materials. LEADERSHIP George VI). the list of names of Irishmen who fought T the time of writing it is not known ! The time is not far away when the ! Fascism in Spain, which appeared in our \ whether Capt. Hugh Delargy has been | welfare of the people of Northern Ire- : PWO events dominated the 51st Con- Churchill ! "In these circumstances the Government Juue issue:—Charles Stephen Faulkner, elected for the Platting Division of Man- • land will at last be placed in the fore- • T gress of the T.U.C., held in Dublin last " t PARTY of vested interests banded to- has decided to release the great majority of r chester, but we confidently expect his return I front, and policies for employment I month. One was the recent secession of - i gether in a formidable confederation those interned under the powers conferred know n to his schoolmates in Falls Road, with a big majority. • and progress will become election 5 the I.T.G.W.U. officials and their satel- by the Civil Authorities Special Powers Act, Belfast as "Bear," was killed in Cordova —corruption at home, aggression to cover it Lessons of Six-County Elections Capt. Delargy, who is well-known to lites; the other the opening of what and releases will commence within a fort- in December, 1936. j issues instead of fake patriotic drum- ; abroad—the trickery of tariff juggles—the readers of the "Irish Democrat." served 15 promises to be a long- and bitter cam- night." —Continued from Page One their policy on social issues largely coin- T beating. : tyranny of a well-fed tariff machine—senti- months as a private in the Royal Artillery a • paign on the industrial front, with the Thomas Pattern's, brother writes to tell workers has beea a severe jolt for these cided with that of the Labour Party. ment by the bucketful — patriotism and At present there are about 219 internees, and later became a staff captain at SHAEF. ; There is, however, one grave warn- jj strike of the Butchers' Section of the including 12 women, in Armagh and Belfast us, that Tom was not from Donegal, but gentry. imperialism by the imperial pint. May Before the war he was one of the youngest i ing implied in the result. Despite the S Workers' Union of Ireland for two weeks' jails. from Dooga, Achill, Co. Mayo. In South Armagh. Mr. Patrick Agnew 5th, 1908. In Bloomfield, fighting against the re- and most active members of the Manchester • almost-equal voting figures, the Tories E paid holiday every year. lost his Labour seat to the anti-Partitionist j still retain a comfortable majority of • actionary Baron Glentoran. Mr. McCul- Malachy Conlon. In" the 1938 election, City Council. He has written a pamphlet on The conference faced up in jubilant style Partition. ; 14 seats. This is due wholly to dis- ; lough, the popular Belfast Communist due to a last-minute hitch on the Republi- to the implications of both these events. Speaking at a Connolly Association Ceil- ; unity among the democratic opposi- Z T. A. JACKSON, veteran British Socialist and authority on Irish affairs (his monumental history leader, succeeded in getting close on 6,000 cans' part, Mr. Agnew had a walk-over. It recorded its regret at the absence of idhe in Manchester recently. Capt. Delargy !' tion. It is not a disunity limited to 5 votes against 9.995. This in an area those who ought to be in the front rank of Ireland will be published this autumn) recently visited Belfast. His report on the For the loss of this seat Mr. Agnew is not reminded his audience of Connolly's famous J the failure of the Northern Ireland • where there is a predominant middle-class of the battle against the employers' de- free from blame. He has had several slogan that "the cause of Ireland was the • Labour Party to accept Irish Com- S veloping anti-union offensive, but it re- elections there arrived too late for publication in our July issue, and since then the results vote and always considered a Tory outpost. years in which to popularise Labour policy cause of Labour." • munist proposals for an electoral E : agreement. The Communist candi- : corded also its determination to struggle Mr. Midgley again succeeded in winning and build up an effective machine; the re- Mr. Lester Hutchison, who was also pres- : dates themselves have done excellently ; on for the unification and organisation of have been announced, but we are glad to publish some of his comments on the present Willowfield in a triangle contest, but with sult shows that he has failed signally to ent, said the differences between Ireland and • in constituencies which they fought 5 the working-class along ciass lines, and not a reduced majority. The reduction may Britain could only be solved on the basis of do so. j largely as pioneers. But the opposi- E on the collaboration st principles proposed political situation in the Six-Counties as a remarkable example of a . . . be partly explained by the presence of a Socialism. Saying that his father was a per- j tion is actually divided into no fewer • by the Petains of the Irish Trade Union LESSONS OF ELECTION sonal friend of Connolly, Mr. Hutchison des- Labour candidate. Mr. McBrinn, who ; than ten groupings. I movement. A packed mass meeting in the barely turned 1,000 votes, and along with What are the lessons to be learned and cribed the Irish leader aj> "not only a great Mansion House—well rewarded by some Mr. Wylie, a Trotskyist, who contested the perspective drawn from the results of rebel but a great revolutionary." first-class speeches—and a very successful Oid Park, was the only other candidate to the election? The new Northern House supper and entertainment at Clery'S, were indications of the new spirit that has be- Labour Prophecy Fulfilled forfeit his deposit. will have a Left bloc of five members, the gun to quicken the leadership of the work- largest ever to sit at Stormont, and the My final conclusion—before the actual The six Commonwealth Labour candi- ing class.- ESCRIBING how the Unionists rushed Labour Movement will be greatly encour- count of votes—is that this election marks ELECTION RESULTS dates polled very well it must be noted. The 1945 Congress can become a land- D the Six County elections in order to aged and galvanised in consequence. But (Continued from next Column) catch the Opposition parties on the wrong a turning point in the history of the Six Mr. Midgley's was the group's sole victory, mark in the history o'f the Irish workers, What he meant was that there is too much it must be noted that there are too many Ballynafeigh: F. Thompson (U >, 5,775; Woodvale: J. W. Nixon Und. U ). 9,274; foot, and how at the same time they took Counties and Ireland as a whole. but in several divisions they ran the Tory comparable to the 1913 lock-out. of a tendency to leave everything to a few voices on the Left in the Six Counties. No W. Kenndy (Commonwealth Lab.i, 3.715; S. Megraw (U.), 4.686. Majority, 4.588'. precautions to prevent the result being Up to now Labour, Socialist and Com- candidates close. In one division, how- J. Baine (Lab.i, 2,424. Majority, 2,060. No change. WORD OF WARNING leaders. The movement is at the moment munist groups have been able to do little fewer than six different parties entered known before the British poll had taken ever, by their intervention they handed a No change. Ards: J. R. Perceval-Maxwell iU.), 7.976; "T T ERE. perhaps, a warning should be rather deficient in leadership. Apart from place, Mr. T. A. Jackson writes: more than ruffle the surface of Northern the election—Official Labour, Independent seat to the Tories. In Ballynafeigh the Bloomfield: Lord Glentoran (UJ, 9,955: A. H. McElroy (Commonwealth Lab), J • sounded. A leading delegate to Con- voting Jim Larkin, whose outstanding politics. Now at last there is a real work- Labour. Communists, Federation of "They invisage the entire population of W. McCullough (Communist), 5.802. 5,615. Majority, 2.361. No change. gress remarked afterwards that there was ability is becoming more and more recog- ing-class movement in the Six Counties. combined Labour and Commonwealth Labour. Commonwealth Labour and Re- Great Britain, from the King on his Majority, 4.193. No change. Bannside: M. Patrick (U ), 5,029; A J. too much unanimity at the conference. nised, and upon whom exceptional respon- WORK! HOMES! SECURITY! Labour poll was 364 votes more than that throne to the newspaper boy at the street publican Socialists. By comparison the Clifton: Lieut.-Col. S. H. Hall-Thomp- Gillespie (Ind. U.l, 2,979. Majority, 2.050. (Continued in Next Column) sibilities devolve, there is little sign of new The Communist Party refused to allow of Thompson, the Tory. corner, all watching, racked with anxiety, Tories are a solid phalanx. The continued son (U.l, 7.272; A. Carlin iLab.i, 4,458. No change. leaders arising from the rank and file. what was happening in that sacred the question of the Border to be an issue existence of six different parties is a Majority, 2.814. No change. Carricktergus: Major L. E. Curran, K.C. This is a situation which can be remedied enclave, the Six Counties. at all. Instead It crystallised its policy DOCTOR HEADS POLL AT QUEEN'S luxury the Left cannot afford if Labour is Cromac: Major J. M. Sinclair • U.i. 8.407: (U.i. 9,387; Dr. W. Calwell (Lab.), 3.973. by the greater democratisation of affiliated and programme into the slogan: "Work! Jimmy Morrow, the well-known A.E.U. Horatius on the Brjdge, the Spartans at to take power within measurable time. Miss B. Sinclair (Communist!, 4.130. Majority. 5.414. No change. unions. Homes! Security!" Thermopylae, Casabianca on the Burning shop stewards' leader, ran the Minister of Majority. 4.277. No change. Centre Armagh: Dr. George Dougan The Civil Service UNITY UNDER LABOUR S BANNER Such was the lead, and it was followed Deck, Bill Adams at Waterloo—that te how Labour close in Duncairn, while in St. Dock Area: Hugh Downey (Lab.), 3.985; (U.), 9,508;. Thomas Martin (Common- rpHE Southern Labour Movement sees a magnificently. The condition of the The Northern Ireland masses are moving the Old Gang imagine the British people Anne's, Mr. Lowden polled the surpris- Capt. A. Clarke (U ), 2,924. Majority, 1_061. wealth Lab ), 4,559. Majority, 4.949. No and the People J- good deal to encourage it in the Nor- people, and especially the working people, away from the Tories. They either ab- think of them. ingly high vote of 7,674. against 10,000 Gain for Labour. change. thern election results. Hard plodding work is now the primary question in Northern stain or vote against. A united Labour R. W. Rawlings 7s. 6d. May be they are something like that to for Warnock, the Tory K.C. Duncairn: W. Grant 'U.i, 7.034; J. Mor- Derry City: W Lowry (U), 8.529; W. A. by vigorous pioneers over a period of years Ireland politics. It is only a matter of Movement, getting down to brass tacks, the Carlton Club, and the Tory Party— row iLab.», 4,874. Majority, ' 2,160. No Irwin (Lab.), 4.908. Majority, 3,621. No garnered nearly 100,000 votes for working- time before Toryism goes down to defeat can win the masses. The Tories are but only on the understanding that the For the first time in history, Queen's change. change. class and Socialist candidates, and won and oblivion before the rising tide of the "enemy" against whom they fight is the University, where voting is on the P.R. healing their breaches—rumour has it that Foyle: P Maxwell

G.A.A. XOTES PAMPHLET. BOOK and VERSE edited i,v »•:. m. Bovie IRISHMEN CAN BUY • » « THEIR TIPPERARY SS FAVOURITE Not the Best That Irish Labourer Wi Irish Democrat from FOR HURLSNG TITLE T.C.D. Can Do Battling <«. Ko. PROGRESS BOOKSHOP ia.nd champion®. Meath; or Cork victors PRE ii r t,i v, ork.;« ' j TTK old0 . old phrase: ' T he rocky I'oad 10 1.1. A. Webb. Dublin 6 -. over KIM ry, in die Minister final. Mayo ti and wiv.u: 7 John Dalton St., Manchester 1 Dtibl in ' mnariUiWy .'pplioubio to u ,'car's all-Ireland football and hurl- has been in the o sic-;- darkness since 1939. I NilERGRADl'ATE humour has a ivr.ain el li Galway since 1942. Wexfoid since 1918: .-parklo. a -man nonelialan>c. a brav- - v. na!i indeed. 1 ing e'nr.mpionships, It is almost incred- •I- ible ihtil such G.A.A. giants as Cork. while Cavan and Cork gave such inept dis- vk\ But reailv it doesn't vary m suijsianic I. l'i Ruber: B!a:.el fe?) ' '-^l W O- W? '. ••. V) V^v Kerr; and Ro.-common have fallen by the plays on their comparatively recent all- ;r» in Dublin to Detroit, and there is only a ,!aanie. - r :i\.. and L'<,.:i i l:e § i wayside on thai rocky road, before the Ireland appearances that it is impossible .rata of soriou* literary effort here. Dr. were Eivj'hs v ol kmc men unci -th.-- .:• ben - MEET YOUR IKIS1I FRIENDS provincial championships are completed. to judge their worth. By their defeat, of Webb. I understand is on the Colleye staff, made them anion-; tht en mount; do ant1 whimsical memories. 'Ihe per.eat of ,.:«i so the dons have it!- ;hat is. the lion's at J\ True. Kerry reached the Minister football Meath. Oil'aly pioved themselves a team men:-;: the informed. •y provoki d. ;; hts mother, lee one. the -.'.annheartea incius- final, but hitherto that has only been re- of no mean ability, but nerves and experi- share of Dr. Webb's paper quota. His collee- they preached. u.mus irishwoman, meditating, as mothers | THE TARA CLUB § garded by Keny as a try-out for potential ence play such an important pan in pre- ion is compounded mainly of parish-pump Bill Nauglr.on. the author or Hoof mi often dc. in the skirmishes between sirens all-Ireland men. sent day all-Ireland's that it will be almost v. i.ticisms and domestic rhymsters, their Over Your Head" (Pilot Press, has and sons, or rising a, the scraik of dawn to •argots and themes being local names and 330/4 Brixton Koad, London, S.W. £ And now what or who for the all-Ire- a miracle if Oflaly emerge as winners. joined the select circle. Nauuhto: Dt an see that he took a decent breakfast beiore ure-heads. Ail very urbane. However, in land finals? Now that Tipp. has won out Wexford have a great tradition to sustain Englishman; the blurb tells us he is an goiti- cut. There you have Iils moiiicr all | :airness. he has included a dozen or so seri- in Mulister they can be regarded as' them, and defeated Kildare so readily that Irish peasant by binli and Lancashire work- c.cr. to use his homely Irish idiom. CFILIDHE EVERY WEDNESDAY, S JAMES DOYLE ous poems—more for good weight ihan for favourites for the hurling title, but this they must be reckoned to have a chance. ing-class by upbringing. His book is a fine Our Boxing Correspondent merit—and one page of good writing, out- Bill Naughton's book is another implicit ^ SATURDAY and SUNDAY. § is a giant-killing year, and if Galway could However, it would be waste of time sum- product of Irish wit and North Country marising the prospects of each team, see- standing in its solitariness, "The Irish Mail'' common sense. indictment of our existing social framework. (T Irish and Modern Dances to Frank £ onlv reproduce their Railway Cup form in It has none of the pungency and bitterness ing that two of them are due for elimina- by L. T. Fleming, which sketches life be- Irish writers, as St. John Ervine noted in '•J Lee and his Radio and Recording the all-Ireland tests we might see a final of Tressall. Britiain or O'Casey. One couid tion as we go to press. vond the confines of this graduate's village a recent essay, are particularly good at dia- Tara Ceilidhe Band. § comparable to the best and perhaps a wish here that he was less introverted- n paper. logue. (We are. of course, amongst the more than over due Galway all-Ireland CAVAN CONFIDENT and more realistic. But no sensitive and > world's best conversationalists! i One imme- •S — § success. Those lucky enough not to be at other The only College jest thai ever left ail intelligent worker can write a story thai ^ South London's Irish Social Centre ^ BOXING diately thinks of O'Casey, Shaw, Synge and The Kilkenny men. I'm sure, would games are assured a game worth travel- impression oil the busy world outside was a doesn't reinforce tile cry for justice. Joyce. Naughton shares this national char- have more than a word to say, about dis- ling far to see and it would not surprise By JAMES DOYLE hoax on a famous Dublin Literary Society. acteristic. He has other advantages, loo: We find Naughton ai his story's end separ- me to see the winners in opposition in the 0:i April lst, 1931. a certain "Mr. R. C. An- missing their prospects so summarily, but I T is hoped that the Irish Amateur Box- great physical energy, a lively imagination ated from his young wife and living in Lon- all-Ireland final the last Sunday in Sep- drews" read a paper on a completely non- the general standard of hurling has fallen --L ing Club will accept the invitation to and a robust intelligence. No wonder he don. He is not orthodox now in his reli- Head of MR. J. B. YEATS by the noted tember. Cavan supporters are already existent Eskimo poet and his Polar lyrics S FRIDAY NIGHT IN HANDSWORTH 5 so much in Leinster that Kilkenny's vic- send boxers to Glasgow to take part in the has made the headlines with his story. gious beliefs and seems to be seeking his Dublin sculptor, Laurence Campbell. Me. exercising their lungs in preparation for about icebergs. This amusing fiction, duly Veals' recent exhibition in Hie National » IS IRISH NIGHT IN BIRMINGHAM § tories over Offaly and Dublin ('42, '43, '441 boxing tournament there next month. Like most beginners, Naughton has made way. One gathers that he has broken with the all-Ireland final no less, and confi- printed in the magazine, docs not qualify College of Art was one of the most suc- are more indicative of the weakness of the This would be a real treat for the Irish his debut via autobiography. But his life the past and is emerging from a period of vanquished than of the ability of the dently expect to see "Big Tom'' lead the war workers now in Scotland. by Dr. Webb's adult standard of what is cessful private exhibitions ever held in "Blues" to victory on September 29th. story is not one of those whining and sordid psychological crisis. It is to be hoped that l ' victors. English clubs should note this idea, and funny. Dublin. Mr. Jack Yeats is brother of The Cavan victories over Antrim. Down chronicles which certain proletarian writers this talented.Irishman nurtured in England's The pairings for the all-Ireland hurling give the Irish here a chance of seeing their Levity hides more than myopic selective- North will keep his feet well planted on the late W. B. Yeats. and Donegal were so convincing in the have turned out in the past. It is neither * semi-finals are Tipp. v. Antrim and Kil- old Stadium favourities. Ulster tests that the supporters have room itess. It creeps into any reference to politics pessimistic nor overdrawn. There is pov- mother earth. For his is a pen that can be | CEILIDHE kenny v. Galway, and despite Kilkenny's for confidence. But until they meet a Chris Cole knocked out Dixie Moore -but it rarely reaches the level of good erty. of course, and squalor: there is the a powerful weapon in the cause of the class traditional skill and great hurling tradi- team of their own class and show what (Belfast) in the first round of their con- satire. The following extract from a lam- mean, moneygrubbing boss and the wretched to which he belongs and whose conditions § DANCING tion. I expect to see Tipp. and-Galway they are really capable of doing, I for one test in Athlone last month. The middle- poon, technically on a par with the work of working conditions; the pangs of hunger and he sketches so vividly. . Poetry and cross cammans in the hurling blue riband would not be over optimistic of their all- weight contest between Spike McCormack ' Saggitarius" of the "New Statesman," a the demoralising search for work are there. MALACHY BOYLE. j SOCIAL| on September 2nd: Ireland chances. and Sean Clancy was a bit of a shocker. brand of light verse for which Trinity stu- | SOCIAL CLUB, HOLYHEAD ROAD, J. FOOTBALL FINALS Clancy boxing very well to force a draw. dents earned some sort of reputation in the HANDSWORTH £ He would be a very wise man who could HOME RESULTS On the same bill, jack Lenihan beat Nick days of Oliver Gogarty, is from the pen of Polities Commences 7 p.m. S name the probable all-Ireland football Minister hurling final: Tipperary 4-3, Weldridge on points. Joe "Boy" Collins R. B. D. French, a former magazine editor. "JUNO" AT 'THE BELL FOR JUNE "JUBILO," Poems by Ewart Milne. i§ Centre for G.A.A. and all Irish § finalists and the ultimate winners, for the Limerick 2-6. Leinster hurling final: Kil- beat Sonny Hanlon. retired in the fifth It was published in 1938. just after Munich: ,r (Published by Fred Muller, .6 -). kenny 5-12, Dublin 3-4. Uister football PHIS issue got off to a flying start. M. J. K Activities. § competition is so wide open as to be em- round. In the feather-weight contest Sean BIRMINGHAM REP. ' M'Manus. who writes for the "Irish UINCE the war Ewart Milne has published barrassing to the write-up experts. Even semi-final, at Clones: Cavan 6-12. Donegal "And Franco gave some soldiers up that Phillips knocked out Jackie Browne in the UIR Barry Jackson's Repertory Theatre at Press" and is an ardent disciple of Mr. De three books of poems. Poetry is an ardu- with -such great football counties as 2-4. Ulster minor football semi-final, at Mussolini loaned. fifth round. ^ ' Birmingham played Sean O'Casey's Valera. tackles Sean O'Faolain about edi- ous task; a process of accepting, rejecting (ciT) ^p^ t^l t^i t^ Cavan, Mayor. Galway and Wexford, no Clones on Jtiiy 29th, the same day that And Rome gave up the Axis when the Winners of the Ardee Boxing Tourney tragi-comedy to packed houses last month. torial aspersions on the Taoiseach in the and distilling the words, phrases, lines ex- one can afford to ignore the prospects of Fermangh. the shock team of the North, Foreign Office phoned; '§ IP YOU WANT TO CONSULT § were E. McArdle (Dundalk), R. Cromwell It was a tribute to Birmingham (where, per- April number. Mr. O. Faolain is an able pressing the idea, until the residue is separ- Offaly who defeated the potential all-Ire- oppose Cavan in the Ulster football final. The Germans gave up butter and they (Tramway), O. Grimes (Dundalk), M. haps more than in any other Ertglish centre, antagonist, and one feels that Mr. M'Manus, ated and there is left a p^em cleansed of sur- THE § didn't even flinch, plus words and lines, mumbled echoes, slov- Martin (Dundalk), P. McLoughlin (Drog- And only Lord Craigavon said he you can nowadays hear the homely accent of who can sea no faults in De Valera and heda), M. Carey (C.B.S.), M. McBeirne enly imagery, trite metaphors, jumbled ideas. i§ CONNOLLY § wouldn't give an inch. Dublin workers in the war industries) to wishes the rest of us to be all blindness, is (Dundalk). D. Dowdall (C.B.S.). find such an appreciative audience, handled very severely indeed. It is a very Such applies to love poetry, nature poetry, With all this sacrifice about we had to epic poetry, or poetry expressing political | ASSOCIATION S Bunty Doran drew with Sammy Rey- I wondered how this all-English team of enjoyable and effective riposee. do our bit. or sociological beliefs. If ideas or a political SPOTLIGHT on IRISH SPORT nolds (Wolv'eihampton) in a 10-round con- actors would manage to put across a play so There are other articles of a high stan- ADVISORY SERVICE f So we gave in to Hungary when still the ideology are expressed in a work coincident tests at Willeiihall, Staffs., last month. peculiarly local in its subtleties of dialect, so dard. A. J. Leventhal. a university lec- by J.A.D. lamps were lit." .with those of the reader of the work, the co- p CUT OUT ^HIS COUPON g One of the b'ggest sensations of the year Irish in its psychology, so undulating in its turer. tells what it means to be a Jew in Then the lamps went out—in Europe. The incidence does not make the work a w ork of S and post to the Connolly Associa- SOCCER furlong, and T. Walsh (O'Callaghan's w-as the defeat of Jos Curr^n by P.O. Tim alternating current of laughter and tears. Dublin, and Prof. Dillon contributes a grin vanished. For many the conflict meant weighty article on Thomas Davis. A young literature. The reader must be intellectually ticn, 6th Floor, Premier House, 150 J r|1HE 1945-46 F.A.I. Challenge Cup com- Mills) in one and three miles. Mahoney (R.N.). Curran is the official And yet they did—most magnificently. university life versus all belligerents, and hi- Dublin girl, now in the A.T.S. up North, honest enough to harness his ideological pre- K Southampton Row, London, W.C.I § J- petition will consist of the eight Standard of performance generally was contender for the World's Fly-weight bernated behind a smoke-screen of "neutral- Allowing for an inevitable variety of ac- raises the problem of return to Eire. Her's is ferences and/or emotional prejudices and ^ together with Postal Order for 1/- g senior League of Ireland clubs, and will be high with best efforts of the afternoon Championship. This was Mahoney's ity." But like hundreds of other Trinity cents, producer John Moody succeeded in a feature both good and bad. It would be judge how these are conveyed. If conveyed run on the same lines as last year. being recorded in the high and long eighth professional fight. Patsy Quinn (Ireland) beat Havy Lazer 'Aldgate>; G. men. the author of these lines left gown building-up a fair approximation to realism very offensive to Northern Protestant readers badly, and however much thereafter is § Name § The first round will be played on the jumps. Howard beat Bert Hyland (Ireland i, re- and bookshelves to do a job of work. in.his.atmosphere_of a slt}m "tworpair,h,aqk." if it were not so naive. aligned with the poet in beliefs, the poem home and away system (March 2nd and 100 yards: 1, D. J. Malor.ey (R.U.C.); Harry Locke's "Jacky Boyle" was a pleasant must be condemned as bad poetry. Address § 2, R C. Jephson (D.U.); 3, J. C. Conway tired in the third round; Wally Lear- Trinity men have done much to enhance Piims, books, drama in Dundalk, and the 3rd and 9th and 10th). The Semi-finals change from the Barn,' Fitzgerald interpre- Such then is my position in relation to (Civil Service), i; 1', yds; 10.3 sees. 220: mouth (Poplar) beat Tommy Leahy (Ire- Ireland's democratic prestige during the war highly successful Jack Yeats' exhibition, are § will consist of two matches, March 30th tation which, after twenty years, has tended this new collection of poems by Ewart-MUne. 1, D. J. Maloney; 2, R. C. Jephson; 3, J. P. land) on points; Kid Richards (Edin years, more perhaps than her official ambas- acutely and amply surveyed. Keep on ring- and 31s and April 6th and 7th, and the to make of The Captain' a set 'charackter.' Here is a poet sensitive to human injustice, Make out P.O. to Connolly Associa- § Riordan (Donore Hrs.). 2; 7 yds; 23.4 sees. burgh) beat Danny Nagle (Corki in the sadors. They have won distinction on the ing. Dublin "Bell." final match will be played on April 21st. Julia Lang's 'Mary Boyle' was convincing suffering, loathes all that makes life so un- tion and cross. § 440 yards: 1, H. E. Jephson (D.U.); 2, A. P. figth round. field; on the home front displayed courage, The Council will decide the venue for the also. Joxer was played by Bill Shine, a clean and inhuman, yet what are we to t^ ts^i t^ '^J Lamont (Nth. Belfast); 3, A. C. Darragh both moral and physical; have supplied semi-finals. most excellent actor. Mabel France made a think of the following: (Queens). 5; l.'.yds.; 52 sees. 880 yards: 1, (Continued from Next Column) needs in Science and Education, have shown "TO START YOU TALKING" The representative match between the 45; L. B. Adams b Simpson 19; G. Oldham hit with her speaking of Mrs. Tancred's ter- That was a mighty good Sim we said Army and F.A.I, team will be played on J. N. Fife (R.U.C.); 2. R. Walker (Clon- initiative and shouldered responsibility at (An Experiment in Broadcasting) b T. C. Williams 19; L. C. Head b Mara 7; rible prayer. That was a. mighty good film April 14th. The Juniors are expecting a liffei; 3, L. L. Browne (Civil Service). 5; 3 many levels. Their names are legion, but Pilot Press, 6 - B. H. Lock b Mara 0; L. Hepworth c. M. I found Eileen Beldon's playing of Juno Almost it was as good as the Grapes of ..match with the Scottish Juniors on yds,; 2 mins. 3.1 sees. nothing is mentioned of them. The fact (J IX young people sit at a microphone and NEW PROPELLER: Wiliiams b Mara 2; F. S. Perkins not out disappointing. Despite her Glasgow accent Wrath, April 22nd. that they upheld their nation's and their ^ discuss a number of controversial sub- TWOPENCE MONTHLY Mile: 1, T. Walsh (O'Callaghan Mills); 12; V. Sorapure b T. Williams 2; J. Russell .—not entirely out of texture with slum life— Remember that song. What was it called? V RUGBY 2, K. Waldron (D.U.); 3. S. Daly (Ulster- university's liberal traditions far from the jects ranging from "Scrounging and Steal- [ ifriHE one paper that caters solely for lbw b Simpson 1; Lieut. Wallace not out source, is unsung, as their gestures are un- she seemed to swallow her lines and render Applying any critical standards, this is The Welsh Rugby Union have agreed to ville Hrs.) 20; 10yds.; 4 mms. 31 sees. Three ing" to "Learning about Sex." The 'broad- f J- the needs of engineering and 1; extras 17. Total (9 wkts.), 137, honoured. them toneless. bad poetry; true I have selected an extract play Ireland-at Cardiff on March 9th. As Miles: 1, T. Walsh; 2, J. A. Crossan (Civil casts are published in this book, and are,of shipbuilding workers and deals with Westland Row C.B.S. sports, in aid of But credit where 'tis due. "Irish Demo- interest to anyone who wants to know what from the worst poem in the book, yet it con- predicted. France has come into the com- Service); 3. J. Nelson (Ballydrain Hrs.). Such title as theirs to being noticed is the problems of the Shop Stewards in - the Brother Rice Memorial Fund, at Shel- crat" applauds this company's production young people of various social strata are tains much that is prevalent throughout the petition. and Ireland will meet each team 7: 5 yds.; 15 mlns. 10.4 sees. Mile relay moreover augmented by an impressive list of factory and shipyard. bourne Park, Dublin. Details: and hopes that they will shortly repeat their thinking . collection with the exception of "Vanessa only once at the Irish Rugby Union re- (880 x 220 x 220 x 240): 1, Six-Counties one-time editors. Some of these personali- Order from the Shop Stewards i 100 yards: 1. J. Henry iDUb. Un.); 2, understanding of the Irish theatre by giving Vanessa" pnd "Tinker's Moop," but. the fine- quest, other teams will meet each other A.A. 'Cahill, Fleming. Maloney and Dar- ties have since their apprenticeship as stu- The youngsters approach their subjects in National Council, 5, Guildford Place, J. C. Conway (C.S.) (5J); 3, P. Blan (Clon- us another O'Casey or Paul Vincent Carrol ness and beauty of these two poems is, too in- -twice. ragh); 2, A.A.U. Easily; 3 mins. 39.6 sees. dents attained national and international a very forthright and uninhibited manner, London, W.C.I. Tel. Holborn 1361. lifTe) (7). Ins.; same; 10 sees. play this season. L.H.D. frequent. LIAM REID. CYCLING 120 yards H.:l, W. E. Stafford (Queens); distinction. Again, nothing from their able and some startling motives underlying their Winner of the three-miles Leinster 2, G. A. Mitchell (D.U.); 3, J. J. Clarke 220 yards: 1, J. Henry (D.U.) (20)'); 2, pens is permitted to eclipse the jester's and day-to-day conduct are revealed. When they Championships at Kilrane. Co. Wexford, (R.U.C.). 2; 1yd.; 16.8 sees. U. Powell (Hermes) (20); 3, N. Meagan get on to moral or social questions, they are t^l CsZ") ' tsf the punster's sovereignty. sports (N.A.C.A.): J. J. Doyle, Enniscorthy, High jump: 1, A. F. Adedoyin (Queens), (Clonliffe) (22). 5 yards; 2 yards; 21.5 quick to see and pose the material reasons UttD OVER was beaten half-a-wheel by M. O'Connor 6 ft. 1 in.; 2, R. O'Rafferty (Donore Hrs.), sees. Five ran. "To pay our debt we'd give our all that 34 PAGES THAT END for the existence of their problems. Existing property relations are given many hard CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION i D.M.P.C.A.) in tho five-mile Wexford 6 ft.; 3, G. A. Mitchell (D.U.), 5 ft. 8 ins. 880 yards: 1, T. A. MacManus (Donore) (Ireland?) still might live, '/ \WING to pressure on space,.several re- knocks, particularly in the discussion on Championship. J. Darey, Sligo, won the Long jump; 1, A. F. Adedoyin, 23 ft. 3!> ins.; (55); 2, P. Hickey (Crusaders) (45); 3. J. But we have a sort of feeling we may not IN DESPAIR " " views are unavoidably h»ld over. -These H. Egan (Clonliffe) (70). have much to give. "Scrounging and Stealing." BIRMINGHAM : two-mile cycling championiship of Con- 2, W. S. Mecreedy-Bryan (D.U.), 22 ft. 6} "THK AGE OF UNREASON"—Denis Ireland include The I'repi0er>t of Ireland, by Michael nacht, at Tubbercurry. ins.; 3, J. C. Conway, 21 ft. 11} ins. Hop. 880 yards (youths): 1, D. Doyle (Clon- Yet perhaps it doesn't matter since we (Abbey Publications) II- The discussions are marred by the "big M'Dunphy;.G'ounji«, if Contention, b^ Bene- kJEETINGS every Tuesday, at 8 GOLF step and jump: 1, B. Shillington (9th Old liffe); 2, W. Rothwell (Clonliffe); 3, F. B. know beyond a doubt 'PHE author has been bitten by the bug brotherly" interference of the adult Chair- dict Kiel.v; In This Thy Day, bv Michael man. Being an adult he is completely out of VmL, irt Trades,, Council Rooms, T. B. Cajr (Sutton) defeated J. Burke Boys), 46 ft. 4J ins.; 2, A. Adedoyin, 45 ft. Malone (Clonliffe). 2 mins. 15.6 aeCs. That no one will remember us when all J- of Social Credit and this 34-page essay M Laverty; The Wood from the Trees. by- place .in this company. This does not des- 262 Cwpwatloir Street. AH Irish- (Castletroy) by two strokes in the play off 4J ins.; 3, J. C. Conway, 43 ft. 4 ins. Mile (novice); 1, J. McGuigan (Clon- the lamps are out." ends on a note of despair. Eire having re- Richard Jefferies; and others. liffe); 2, M. A. Gallagher (Crusaders); 3. The lamps went out all right. But it troy the value of the book, which mast men aire wefconW?.'1 for the East of Ireland's Golf Champion- 16 lb. shot: 1, L. N. Horan (Hermes), 43 jected the dubious palliative of Social Credit, The article in our July issue on the new J. McGrane (C.S.). 5 mins. 4 sees. seems that those who stayed to feed the "the last hope of the West temporarily elim- readers will find very entertaining. Dublin theatre was contributed by the well- # * * ship at Baltray. It was Carr'S third suc- ft. 7 ins.; 2, D. McD. Clarke (R.U.C.), 42 cess in this -event, and for the 36 holes he ft. 4 ins.; 3, D. Karohan (Queens). 39 ft. Two miles: 1, J. Crossan (C.S.) (110) ; 2, wicks have, over six long years, had their inated." Mr. Ireland gloomily views the pros- II. Met . known Dublin writer, R. M. Fox. LONDON: returned 152 against Burke's 154. Harry 7 ins. Discus: 1. J. E. Nesbit (R.U.C.), J. B. Maguire (C.S.) (140); 3, B. Twam- vision impaired bv the penalties of isolation. pect of "Western Europe about to be re- Bradshaw, the Irish champion, hopes to lev (C.S.) (175). 10 mins. 2.8 sees. Six ran. N.K.K. bound In the fetters of International Fin- OPEN-AIR MEETINGS in HYDE 134-3; 2, L. N. Horan, 113-91; 3, D. Kerno- finish in the first five in the "Daily Mail's" han, 107-5. Javelin: 1, M. Gleeson (Donore High jump: 1. J. Hollywood (Mount.joy) ance." PARK every Sunday, 4.45 p.m. £1 500 Tourney, at St. Andrew's, in August. Hrs.), 162 ft 81 ins.; 2. J. J. Clare, 149 ft. (5 ins.), 6 ft.; 2, R. O'Rafferty (Donorei Setting out to present a short Jiistorv of GREYHOUNDS 1 in.; 3, D. A. Wallace, 138 ft. Hammer: (scr.), 5 ft. 10 ins. Five competed. democracy in our times. Mr. Ireland neither The Opinions of t^l Ballyhennessey Seal won the English 1. B Healion (Erris), 160 ft. 4 ins.; 2, D. Pole vault: 1, R. O'Rafferty (scr.), 10 ft.; SIXCOUNTY RADIO achieves coherence in his purpose nor does Greyhound Derby very easily at the White McD. Clarke (R.U.C.), 157 ft. 41 ins.; 3, T. 2, H. O'Connor (Donore) (2 ft.), 9 ft. 6 ins ; he successfully elucidate the panacea he so City. "The Seal" received a great ovation McAnallen (R.U.C.), 145 feet 3 ins. 3, J. M. Fitzgerald (D.U.) (1 ft.), 9 ft. FEATURE zealously defends. Although he indicts hazy WILLIAM l OBRETT from the crowd. Take note of Gee Twin CRICKET Four competed. thinking, readers cannot be impressed by a HOSf EL SPORTS who will be running soon at Walt,ham- Shot: 1, J. Keogh (Donore) (4 ft. 6 ins.), OUNDAY radio listeners must have been An Irish cricket XI narrowly failed to 1 delighted with the opening of the Coun- writer who. in October 1944, makes no dis- Edited by G. D. H. & M. Cole 10/6 AClf JUDGE (Connolly Associa- stow. He is a grand railer and a consis- 43 ft. 81 ins.; 2, D. McD. Clarke (2 ft.). 43 defeat Colonel Lindsay's team at Lisburn try Magazine feature on lst July on hearing tinction between the "backward" trend of tion) and member c-f the Inter- tent winner at Shelbourne Park. ft. 31 ins.; 3, M. Gleeson (Donore) (3 ft. 6 J recently. the homely voices of Co. Down and Co. Fer- Russian Communism on the one hand or This wonderful selection is made from Cobbctt's Hostel Committee, informs us that the ins.), 40 fet. 3 ins. Toilgh Hill has been sold to the Irish After declaring their innings closed at managh countrymen and women at the mi- German and Italian National Socialism on writings in his POLITICAL REGISTER over a Committee haVe met Government re- Hammer: 1, T. Mc.Anallan (R.U.C.) '12 Breeders' Association for £1,200. He was 194 for six, they had captured nine wickets , 194; are at vii mwUml dj.pmd (k HiCltey and E. T. MagUire); 2, Civil Ser- and fisherman to Uie quarrvman. the water flourishes over one-sixth of the world and superiority, as they had the llrst in nine O. Mara, i. Simpson, O. BilllngBley and CjENTitAJL HOOKS LIMITED vicc""" bailiff In the Silent Valley, and the. Kllkeel signs are not wanting that even in Western trt the 15 events. f •a ce lass from the heart of the Mourncs—and Europe the feltcrs of "international finance" 2-4 PARTON STREET — LONDON, W.C.1 », contact your BROUGHT OFI; DOUBLES ' Ccfl'o'nBl' LindSiy'^X I: H. Matlock b M. Boys' races (WeeUand Row CB.&) 100 i ' <• Williams 13: J. M. KtftyjT C.'WMltHlAS yfcKje, J. O'Callaghan; 320 yards, J- Hie 13 B.C. are to be given full credit for are likely to prove ineffectual in the coming J — ~ ^-^^cjHflmn) O'Connor. '-"Ing a first-rate job. L.H.D. years. A.K. 8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August, 1945 Irish Congress Seeks Frank Ryan Shot ? rjTHE possibility that Frank Ryan did not MEMORIAL MEETING IN NEW YORK die a natural death, but was killed in In a letter to Desmond Greaves, Cor. North-South Co-operation Germany, was discussed recently in two nolly Association. Gerald O'Reilly, Ne . York Transport Workers' Union, refers • American Labour journals. By Malacliy (.'ray a Frank Ryan memorial meeting, held "Prank Ryan was murdered by the Fas- the auditorium of the Carmelite Churci. I * MTV of the Irish Trade Union move- wore, but what did concern them vitally cists." declares the "Canadian Tribune," or- New York. " ' ment. North and South, and interna- was their relation to the general standard gan of the Labour Progressive Party. "The "Prior to the meeting we held Mass tional working-class co-operation, were the of life. It should be their definite policy to Irish Catholic workers' leader, who fought which was celebrated by Father Sea. secure that the bonuses now being paid keynotes of last month's Conference of the for democracy in Spain and was taken Reid. for the repose of Frank's so;;'. would become part of the workers' basic Irish Trades Union Congress, held in prisoner by Franco's Moors seven long Father Reid was very active in the Iris! wages. Dublin's historic Mansion House. years ago. was reported to have 'died in a Mr. Michael Mclnerney (Belfast), speak- Movement in Ireland, and a great ad- Congress delegates unanimously adopted sanatorium' in Germany. Until recently, ing to a resolution on co-operation between mirer of Frank Ryan. The attendance a; the Section of the Executive Report dealing the Dublin and Belfast Governments on eco- the Spanish Government had another both the meeting and the Mass was ver with the attendance of -Gilbert Lynch and nomic and industrial policies, said. "If the story to the effect that Ryan had escaped good. Many people prominent in the Michael Keyes. T.D., at the World Trade Labour movement, North and South, could and was free in a neutral country." Irish Movement in New York attended Union Conference. W. Norton, T.D. summed bring pressure to bear on botli Govern- up the feelings of Congress when he con- "Did Ryan die in Spain or Germany?" Among them Were Peter McSwine; ments to have consultations on such impor- gratulated the Executive on the courage and asks the "Tribune." "If in Germany, how brother of Terence McSwiney, Michae: tant questions as land drainage and elec- wisdom which inspired it to send a delega- does 'neutral' Spain explain that its Flannery. former president of the G.A.A trification schemes at Lough Erne, they tion to the Congress of World Trade Unions. would be doing a great deal towards fur- prisoner was handed over to a warring and Patrick J. Gillespie, vice-chairman of the United Irish Counties, and man; • The speech of the President, Mr. G. thering friendship between the people of State. And if in Germany, what sadistic Lynch, at that Congress." Mr. Norton added, the North and South." irony makes Franco talk of a 'sanatorium'? others." "had done more to write the name of Ire- The policy outlined in these speeches was The world has seen those German 'sani- In a resolution, which was passed unani- land in the working-class movement than readily understood by Congress delegates. toriums' in Majdanek and other places." mously, tribute was paid to Frank Ryan - all the clap-trap of our trade union critics Vigorous applause was the answer when "active leadership of the Irish Battalion OUTSTANDING ANTI-FASCIST who sought to keep us out of the Confer- delegates asked the new Executive to launch in defence of the Spanish people again.-. ence.'' a campaign in all parts of the country to "Mr. de Valera had not lifted a hand to Franco and his Nazi and Fascist allies. BELFAST UNITY LEAD rally the workers behind a programme of save the life of one of Ireland's outstand- It was urged that his body be returned ; Congress also gave a decisive answer to industrial development to absorb the unem- ing anti-Fascists," says Michael Quill, Ireland for burial. tlje critics and splitters who are trying; to ployed: to demand proper minimum wage famous Irish-born leader of New York's The first anniversary Mass for F^nk partition the Irish working class. rates; decent homes and health facilities; transport workers, writing in the "Trans- and the control of food prices. Ryan was celebrated in the University In a resolution port Workers' Bulletin." Church. Dublin, recently, the relative- from the Belfast WORKERS' ENTHUSIASM Trades Council. Such a campaign would be an effective Discussing the report of Frank Ryan's present including Mr. Vere F. Ryan Mr. W. H. Mc- answer to the disrupters. This was clearly death last July in Dresden, Mr. Quill (father). Miss Ellis Ryan (sister) and M:. Cullough qalled shown at the mass demonstration held dur- writes: "We suspect murder." and Mrs.. J. J. Ryan. upon all trade ing Congress week. A packed Mansion unionists in Ire- House gave an indication of the way in land t o resist which Dublin workers would follow such a any attempt to lead. The enthusiasm and fighting spirit, weaken the and the presence of many young men and united strength somen showed that Dublin had lost none An Taoiseach and Republic of the Irish of its old traditions in being willing to fight Trades Union against poverty and injustice. Press Comments Congress and to The Mansion House meeting will be well rally , to the sup- RISH INDEPENDENT"—"Mr. De Valera remembered for the spontaneous and en- independent Republic associated with the port. of this his- has been singularly shy about his infant thusiastic welcome given to Abe Moffat, fra- I Commonwealth." toric organisation prodigy, the Republic. When he announced ternal delegate from the Scottish T.U.C. His *f* ifc last week that such an addition had been of the Irish NORTON allusion to the fact that past disunity among "IRISH PRESS"—"The Constitution is made to the family of nations everybody working class. the Scottish miners had benefited no one there in black and white for anyone to read was naturally curious to learn the actual The lead from but the employers, was readily understood it is a plain-spoken document, and it re- date of birth. Belfast set the by the audience. His sympathetic speech un- quires no special knowledge to discover that theme for derlined the need for friendship and under- "It no\^ appears that the happy event took it is a Republican Constitution and there- speeches from standing between the Irish and British place on December 29th. 1937. The child fore this state is a Republic according te delegates. Dublin has therefore reached the age of reason and the accepted definitions of the term." workers. * * * and Cork speak- has had seven of its birthdays go by without ISSUES ARE CLEAR ers took the receiving a single toy or card, all because the "IRISH TIMES" — Under the heading. To sum up on a Congress which took stand for Unity. birth was not registered. "Phantom Republic," the "Irish Time-' such important decisions affecting the future It was Deputy W. "For seven and a half years we have been says: "Mr. De Valera's statement leaves mat- of the Irish people is not easy> But several Norton who em- living in a Republic and no one suspected it, ters precisely where they were—or where points must be emphasised. The main body phasised that A few years ago. when pressed on the point, they were not. of Irish Trades Unionism stands firm. The differences be- Mr. De Valera, with characteristic adroit- delegates, by sincere and thoughtful state- "No Republic has been declared. No Re- tween unions can ness, explained that 'we are in the British ments, demonstrated a strong desire to fight public is likely to de declared, and the only be effective- Commonwealth but not of it,' now we gather and campaign for a higher standard of life chimera which Mr. De Valera has been flee- ly overcome when that we are of the British Commonwealth and comfort for the mass of the people. ing up hills and down dales ftfr the past 25 discussions take but not in it, for he explains that we are an years is as fanciful as ever it was." Already the fight has begun. The Dublin place inside the butchers are on the picket line against the machinery of the masters and the Government for guaran- J. LARKIN, SNR. T.U.C. teed two weeks' holiday with pay. If the SAYINGS OF THE MONTH To go outside and attempt to form rival IT COSTS £1,014 TO butchers win. the campaign will spread. In organisations is a game that suits the em- "I was brought up an extreme Conserva- this atmosphere the Trades Union Congress ploying class and those sections of the Gov- tive with strong Imperialistic ideals, but BECOME A DOCTOR can again rally the Irish working class as it ernment who wish to take advantage of any early in my career I was attracted to Fas- did in 1913. T ECTURING to the Statistical Society in weakness or disunity among the workers. cism, and subsequently to National Social- To this struggle every Irish worker can ism. Between 1933 and 1939 I pursued vig- J Dublin, Mr. Meenan, a statistician from It was obvious that discussion on the split, lend a hand. For unity against disunity, orous political activities in England, at times U.C.D., has described what it costs to send a engineered by William O'Brien and Co., and happiness instead of poverty are the rally- as a Conservative, but mainly as a Fascist or *the Irish T.U.C.'s affiliation to the World student through different faculties in the ing calls of the Irish workers at the moment. National Socialist."—William Joyce, giving Trade Union Conference would overshadow University. * * * evidence at the Old Bailey. every other issue at Congress. Despite that, Taking a hypothetical student "rarely, if many important resolutions were passed by ever, smokes, drinks or backs horses, and Congress that give a lead to the workers in NEW EXECUTIVE (Continued from Next Column) meets the other sex only in the National all parts of the country. Workers) ; M. J. Keyes (N.U.R.); J. O'Kee/e The following have been elected to the Library," and estimating digs at 40/- a week, (League of the Blind); J. Barry (Amalga- WORK AND WAGES PROSPECTS new Executive of the Irish T.U.C.: he calculates that including College fees mated Society of Woodworkers); F. Foley Two speeches, in particular, require seri- President, Mr. Gilbert Lynch (AT. and and all other expenses, a medical course (Municipal Employees); P. J. Cairns (Post ous consideration. Deputy Lark in, Junr. G.W.U.i; Vice-President, Mr. J. Swift (Bak- Office Workers); Sam Kyle (A.T.G.W.U.); J. costs £1,014; arts and commerce, £445 each; said that their basic problem was to find ers); Treasurer, Mr. J. T. O'Farrell (R.C.A.) P. Forrestal (T.A.); R. Getgood (A.T. and law, £307; science, £497; civil engineering, ways of closing the gap between wages and Members—J. Larkin, Jnr. (Workers' Union G.W.U.); E. P. Harte (AT. and G.W.U.), £470; mechanical and electrical engineering, prices. It was immaterial to the workers of Ireland I; Miss Louie Bennett (Women and J. Casey (Limerick Trades Council) £662; architecture, £783; dentistry, £867. what the actual figures of wages and prices (Continued In Next Column) ANOTHER IRISH Cork Man's Son who became Labour Premier v:c. R. JOHN CURTIN, whose death was men?. In 1917 he went to West Australia as editor of its "Daily Worker," and in 1928 fTHE eighth V.C. to be won by an Irish- announced in Canberra last month, M Freemantle returned him to the House of JL man in this war has been awarded to was the greatest of those many personali- WEXFORD'S FIRST ties, Irish-born or of Irish descent, who Representatives. Lieut. Claud Raynynd, R.E., whose family have built up the Labour movement in Aus- In 1935 he was appointed leader of the LABOUR MAYOR DIES comes from County Kerry. Opposition. When the war began he refused tralia and New Zealand. Like Mr. Prter A LD. R. CORISH, T.D. for Wexford 'since In Burma in March, Lieut. Raymond was to merge the Labour Party in a National Fraser, of New Zealand, he rose from humble 1921 and Mayor of Wexford for 26 years, secdnd-in-charge of a small patrol, acting Government, but pledged that Labour would beginnings to become one of the most fa- died recently in the Co. Hospital, Wexford. whole-heartedly support Australia's effort. •with a special force, who had to destroy mous Labour statesmen in the British Do- He was aged 87 years. minions. Japanese pasts 40 miles in advance of an DISCIPLE OF TOM MANN He was a member of the Executive of tin- Indian Infantry Brigade. Under Socialist Governments, New Zea- Describing his early days in Victoria, and Irish Labour Party and was a fellow-worker GRENADE IN FACE land and Australia have become two of the how it was the British Communist, T6m with the late James Connolly and Jim Lar- most prosperous countries in the world, with Mann, who turned him towards Socialism, As the patrol neared the village of Talaku, kin in the Labour movement from 1913 on- standards of life surpassed only* by the Mr. Colin Wills writes: "Round Creswlck wards. they met heavy fire. U.S.A. they mined gold, farmed and cut timber. A native of Wexford, he was prominent m Lieut. Raymond charged and was wounded Mr. Curt in was the son of a policeman of Curtin grew up among people who worked, the organisation work which resulted in the In the right shoulder, but he continued to Irish descent. were proud to work, and were resolved to get formation of the I.T. and G.W. Union there advance, firing his rifle from the hip. His uncle was Con Curtin. a prominent a Just reward for their work. That shaped He became an Alderman of Wexford Cor- Fenian, who took part in the Rising of 1867. his philosophy. Labour orators, Labour poration in 1913 and in the subsequent years Therf a grenade burst in his face, and * * * writers, taught him how to think things was active in the Sinn Fein movement m . severely wounded him. He fell, but picked out." the county. himself up, and went forward with his sec- "HONEST JACK" SON OF IRISH BLACKSMITH Wtyle sitting on a Sinn Fein Court in tion. Called "Honest Jack Curtin" even by his Mr. Joe Chlfley, who succeeds the late Mr. Wexford Town Hall, he and the other mem- political opponents, he was chosen as Aus- He was hit a third time (his wrist was Curtln as Premier of Australia, also has bers were arrested by British military. tralia^ second Labour Prime Minister in shattered) but again he carried on into the Irish connections. His father was a black- He was elected a Sinn Fein deputy for 1941, only three months before the Japan- enemy position. ar*d captured it, driving the smith who emigrated from Co. Cork in his Wexford (unopposed) in 1921. He voted fur ese struck at Pearl Harbour. Japanese out in panic. vouth. • the Treaty and in 1922 took his seat as a With Australia threatened by Invasion, Mr. Chifley started life as an engine-driver Labour deputy. To avoid delay, he refused treatment for he emerged as a great national leader oh the State-owned New South Wales Rail- his wound*. Even when he finally col- when his country was passing through its ways. afterwards taking an active part in lapaed aod had to be carried, he continually moment of gravest dangw. ' the trade up ion movement, and eventually Printed by Ripley Printing Society Ltd. eMoapaaei other wounded by giving the Born at Creswlck. Victoria, in 18«5, Mr becoming one of the leaders of the Austra- (T.U.), Ripley, JDertys.. and published by "thumbs-up' 'sign He died soon after reach- Ourtln became a journalist and took part in lian Labour Party. He la a specialist In fin- the Editor, Prefer House. ISO Southamp- ing his landing craft. the growing trade union and Socialist ino- »- ancial and banking problems. ton Row, London, W.C.I.