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EIRE ELECTION CAMPAIGN Backing Dunne Wins Co ff TH LATE X ELECTION MOCRA(Incorporating "Irish Freedom") T RESULTS New Series No. 38 FEBRUARY, 1948 Price 3d. Financial EIRE ELECTION CAMPAIGN Backing Dunne Wins Co. Dublin npHOSE who have read the con- slant unscrupulous attacks made by the reactionary "Standard" on for Labour all progressive organs of opinion, in- cluding the "Irish Democrat," will be interested to learn who are the back- From Our Spccial Correspondent ers of that Dublin news-sheet. DUBLIN, FRIDAY, 6th There are 6,072 issued shares, antil of them only 433 are held in small THE Irish Labour Party has increased its representation in amounts by Catholic clergy. The remainder are mostly held by busi- ' the Dail from eight to 11 seats by the election of three new ness people, including 800 by the edi- T.D.s from Co. Dublin, Waterford and Louth, according to tor, Mr. O'Casey, graduate of Trinity general election results so far available. While De Valera College. appears to be holding his majority, the great surprise of the day The directors include Mr. McEoin, has been the failure of Clann na Poblachta to do better. late Longford blacksmith, who on Monday, February 2nd, spoke in Labour Party has drawn up an agricultural Mr. S. Dunne, who gave the O'Connell Street for Fine Gael, the policy superior to that of any other Party. Labour Party its greatest victory in party of ranchers and bankers. Co. Dublin, told me when I spoke to Lowest Vote Other directors are Peadar O'Lough- him immediately after the declaration lin, Fianna Fail Clare hotel owner; Aodh de Blacam was heavily defeated and Fine Gael Senator P. F. Baxter, of the poll, that he attributed his suc- by Roddy Connolly in Louth. In Water- cess to the work of the Federation of ford, where T. Kyne was elected, Mr. Gil- who holds 525 shares. The fish mer- MAINTAINS Rural Workers. bert Lynch told me that the Red bogey chant McCalie holds 100 shares and T. B. Duffy, draper, with 3G0, is an- HIS MAJORITY This organisation has enroled over 15,000 and mud-slinging campaign against :he other large shareholder. members in the last 13 months, and the Labour candidate had had c'ight effect. The lowest vote in the country was re- The only figure 'remotely con- ceived by a National Labour candidate in nected with the working class is Mr. Dublin, where that Party has failed to J. McKey, of Cork, who won support secure a single seat, and 20 Clann na Pob- by his courageous stand against the lachta candidates have forfeited their de- Nazi visit to Cork in 1936, but Who U.N.O. HUMAN RIGHTS APPEAL posits. is now standing as Cork candidate At 12.30 p.m. to-day the state of the for the splitting "National Labour" parties was: Fianna Fail, 52; Fine Gael, Party, which is indistinguishable' in 21; Labour, 11; Clann na Poblachta 6; MAY MEAN NEW 6 Co. PROBE policy from Fianna Fail. Clann na Talmhan, 7; National Labour,^2; BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Independents, 6. The obvious connection of the Labour circles in Dublin are now discus- THE reactionary Six County Tory junta may in the near future be faced "Standard" with the propertied in- sing the next steps before the Party. These terest, especially with Fine Gael, ex- • with the embarrassing presence in their own domain of an independent will undoubtedly include the strengthen- plains its short-sighted enthusiasm Commission of Inquiry which will "examine again the whole problem of ing of the central election machinery. They for the Marshall Plan. The "Irish may also include steps to eliminate sec- democratic liberty" in the province. Democrat," basing its policy on the democratic liberties in the Six Counties, tional appeals in order to secure one over- In view of the "extremely grave" situa- mterests- of the workers and demo- tion in Northern Ireland, where the Gov- the report says: all national policy for democratic advance. If it were not for the split in the Labour cratic peoples, cannot boast such ernment "appears in fact to be operating "The Special Powers Act has now be- solid financial backing, and nobody a dictatorship . while paying lip-service come part cf the permanent law of Party represented by National Labour, makes a single penny out of it. to B:itish democracy," the National Con- Northern Ireland, though it contains Labour would have won many more seats. ference on Human Rights, held recently laws and regulations which are con- in London, recommended to the National trary to elementary civil liberties. Unique Campaign Council for Civil Libei ties the setting up "Gerrymandering of electoral areas both The country went to the polls after a FOR THAT REASON WE ASK of a commission to re-examine the whole for local Councils and for the Northern unique election campaign which was YOU position. Ireland Parliament is grossly unfair, both marked at the outset by universal interest and complete absence of hysteria or even DON'T FORGET OUR Wide Representation to the majorties in the border counties and to minorities elsewhere." enthusiasm. All efforts either by Fianna FIGHTING FUND ! The conference, which was called by the Fail to whip up exci'enent around the Executive Committee of the N.C.C.L., in- Anti-Labour personality of de Valera oi by Clann na Subscribe Now cluded representatives of 32 nat.onal orga- Poblachta to recapture the spirit of 1932 Although the commission's terms of re- nisations, among which were the British proved a complete failure. ference would be limited to examining dis- section of the Anti-Partition League, the The picture of the chairman at de (Owing to late eleetlon news, fund crimination on religious and similar Catholic People and Freedom Group, and Valera's last rally outside the Post Office acknowledgments are held over.) political part'es as wide apart as the Com- (Continued on Page Two, Column One) (Continued on Page Six) munists and Liberals. It was the direct outcome of an Inter- national Conference on Human Rights called by the Council in June, 1947, in response to the appeal of the Human Partition Challenge to Eire Parties Rights Commission of the United Nations ,r that public discussion of human rights pHE executive of the Anti-Partition From our Belfast Correspondent By its policy, the Oe Valera Cabinet has should be stimulated throughout the League in Belfast has thought it made the Ireland for which it speaks world. necssary to publicly put the question of Partition in the Twenty-Six Counties, Is the servile instrument of British im- Irish unity before the parties and electors carrying the proverbial coals to Newcastle. In the Conference's discussion on dis- perialism with De Valera as its Bevin of the South and West of the Border. crimination on grounds of race, religion, This, of course, is just side-tracking the Boy. The league leaders ask all parties to pledge languaga and nationality in the United issue which the league would seem to be * themselves specifically to support the Kingdom, the Six County regime provided striving to raise. That issue is; Will the The Shipbuilding and Engineering Con- straggle for re-unification of the country. some of the most blatant examples of next Government in Dublin take any federation here have arranged to see the anti-democratic legislation and discrimi- Thus step of the Northern Nationalists practical steps to seek a solution of the Minister of Commerce regarding the steel nation against minorities. and the reaction to it in Dublin throws division of the nation brought about by cuts. The confederation states it has asked In tho words of the report: "We have some light on the way things are shaping the Act of 1921? De Valera refuses to the Labour Government to resist the Mar- no doubt that not only is there a con- in Irish affairs at this juncture. have his Party committed, even remotely, shall plan's proposed reduction in ship- tinuation of provious denials of liberty, The manifesto is a direct challenge to anything resembling such a line of buildings, which would ruin Belfast. Other hut that other repressive measures have to tho "Southern" Parties to make Par- action. sections of the Trade Union Movement are recently increased the discrimination tition an issue of practical politics in Imperialism also moving in this matter. against religious and other minorities." Anglo-Irish reiations in the immediate future. Nationalists are beginning to seek an Special Powers Act explanation for "t h e accommodating The impending by-election in Armagh Side-tracking The repoit names the Local Govern- spirit" ("Irish Times") of De Valera and for the Imperial Parliament is calling ment Franchise Act and the recent Safe- De Valera and the Fianna Fail leaders his Ministers towards the Ulster Unionists forth activity in Unionist, Labour and guarding of Employment Bill as among are clearly averse to putting Partition any- and the Government of Attlee and •Sevin. Nationalist circles. Candidates are mooted the "other repressive measures'' introduced where near the top of their agenda. So the It is not yet clear to the mass of by the Labour, Anti-Partition and Clann since the Council's pre-war report which Irish Press (editorially) gently chides the Nationalist opinion that unity with na Poblachta Parties. Attempts are being exposed the Gestapo-like powers of tho Anti-Partition League for its manifesto, British imperialism and the 16 Marshall made to secure a common front against R.U.C. and Home Minister under the Spe- tells the northerners that the Fianna Fail nations takes precedence over the unity the Unionists under Labour auspices, and cial Powers Act.
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