IRISHMEN, YOU HAVE THE VOTE fcui'.m DEMOCRAT USE IT! BY THE EDITOR

^^E'RE not telling you who to vote for. It's not our business.

LANDLADIES BEWARE! BUT WE DO SAY: YOU HAVE —That lodger may be the A VOTE, USE IT. Irish Democrat reporter Candidates have told the Irish Demo- cret that in canvassing they have found THAT TOOLBOX MAY HOLD A CAMERA! Irishmen who are unaware that they are entitled to vote.

EVERY IRISHMAN OVER 21, EVERY IRISH WOMAN OVER 21, IS ENTITLED TO VOTE.

MR. MAURICE ORBACH, M.P. If he or she lives in lodgings, then the landlord or landlady had the duty to-fill " One of the big issues in the Six Counties in a return and see all lodgers were on the which has unfortunately also made its register. There are severe penalties for appearance in Britain is that of discrimina- failuie to record all persons of voting age tion in employment, in schools and in letting living on the premises. of rooms. Most of my constituents are aware that I have spent the last 15 years in fighting such discrimination, and that I will continue HAVE YOU MOVED ? to declare as base and evil any effort to pre- II you have moved since the register was vent a man or woman from working, or their made just before Christmas, then you will be children from going to school, or their being on the register lor your former address, and housed on the grounds of faith or colour. can vote there. II it is not far away, take the " I hope all Irishmen who are at present trouble to do .so. resident in Britain will participate in our But before the election ask the candidates democratic way of life, not only by voting at their views. You are entitled to take a full local and national elections, but also by part in the political life of Britain. You have joining their respective trade unions, and so absolutely equal rights, guaranteed by law, helping themselves and their fellow-workers WHAT'S WRONG HERE? with any British-born citizen. Claim them and to establish a decent standard of life and use them. Take part in the campaign. Ask proper working conditions." the candidates where they stand on partition, 1. NOT ENOUGH BEDCLOTHES FOR MARCH 1955. and also on housing, wages, peace and colonial Now ask the Tories, and see if they can offer freedom. anything better than that—somehow we doubt 2. WHERE DO THEY HANG THEIR CLOTHES? 'it. Just to start you off. the "Irish Democrat" 3. BEDS TOO MANY AND TOO CLOSE. has taken a lew samples for you. More "Irish Let's leave the " Bronx " of Britain, and go Democrats" are distributed m Willesden than to Manchester. There Ken Marks is opposing anywhere else in England, so we asked the Florence Horsbrugh, the unpopular ex-Minister WRITE IN YOUR IDEA OF WHAT Labour candidate, Mr. Maurich Orbach, M.P., of Education; Leslie Lever is standing for Ard- "DIGS" SHOULD BE LIKE ! for his views. wick. MR. ORBACH WRITES: MR. MARKS WRITES :

" Nothing has convinced me that Ireland " Most Irish people know the Tory Party for MORE UNION BRANCHES should be split into two parts, and therefore what it is. Indeed the description Tory was I remain a strong supporter of the anti- coined in Ireland and was not complimentary. CONDEMN 'B' SPECIALS partition. Continued on Page 6, Column 4

kJANCHESTER Branch of the ^WWWWAWW/M "" Constructional Engineering Union has passed a resolution con- Valuables Ores I.R.A. HOAX CATCHES demning the "shooting of Irish citizens in the North of Ireland," and found in Galway demanding the disbandment of the INISTER FOR INDUSTRY > LONDON EVENING PAPER "B" specials and restoration' of full M & COMMERCE, Mr. Norton, «, democratic rights. i" told Fianna Fail deputy G. Bart- % THE 'STAR" TURNED RED IN LONDON ON MAY 2nd. St. Helens branch ol the C.E.U. also «J ley, that Mianrai Teoranta had protests against the " unorovoked attack drilled for molybdenite at >| —AND WELL MIGHT THEY BLUSH. " and views with, on Arthur Leonard, Ji Roundstone, Co. Galway with- Late night edition carried huge banner Police were said to have thrown a cor- within the United alarm the Existence out finding enough to justify % headlines right across the top of the front don round the mysterious geographical Kingdom of a police force with such wide entity where the raid was supposed to •J exploitation. / page, saying; " '6 shot in army raid' re- powers. It demands criminal proceedings port," followed by "Sentry clubbed by take place. ^ But traces had now been «] against those responsible and the dis- IR.A. men." But alas! The "Late night edition" found near Mace, and prelimi- % bandment ot the "B" Specials. was forced to carry a wee one-and-a-half Then followed an account of great ex- nary investigations were being V inch paragraph, right at the bottom of Further protests have come Iiom citements in "Armagh, Co. Tyrone." This made to see if it was worth page one headed "l.R.A. hoax"—admit- apparently passed the sub-editors and E T U. branches in South London; Acton ting that the raid on Armagh (County while getting the drills out seems to have aroused no suspicions. N U.R. protest .as reported in our third Tyrone!) had not taken place at all. edition last mc (th. People were saying that newspapers in Britain are a bit too ready to rush into print when there is an anti-Irish story. The "Manchester Guardian" recently pub- CONNOLLY PRESIDENT CALLS FOR UNITY lished three "expert" articles on Satur- days, purporting to show the terrible con- collaboration be- voice, said Mr. Clancy, they were numer- through not understanding the nature of pROSPECT of ditions that Irish girls suffer under—and . . . ., ous enough to win Labour to opposition Imperialism, had led it into a dead end. the total effect was not to show Irish between Irish organisations was ^ ^ Border But there were men in it he would be girls in a very good light. the object of an Analysing the prospects of co-operation phmd to work with, The "South London Press" gave splash at West London bonnouy Mbbuo.a ^^ bodies as they cxjsted to.day> Evan (he sma|,est organisation, the headlines to the statements of Mr. Isaacs, tion, when Mr. P. J. Clancy, prestdent hc sajrf jt was necessary t0 rcmember that London " United Irishmen," contained M.P. for Southward, who spoke of the alleged nuisance of the Irish Danoe Hall of the association, traced the years ev(jn jn organisations with bad or reac- sincere nationalists, and he would not be wi,h ,hem on ma1,ers thers—though the police report was by of effort he and his colleagues had tionary leadership, there were good and of common Intorest. no means so damning. spent advocating that Irish people | cere Irishmen. Many of the alleged " ' ' S n The "Daily Herald" spoke of an "Irish- should unite on a single platform obstacles to co-operation were unreal, TIE way of co-operation may not be man's Rise" m a recent editorial (It would against partition. l.iOR example, Sinn Fein was a Repub- I easy or short, said Mr. Clancy, but be better called an Englishman's rise, for that is what the British old age pen- The Connolly Association, lie said, had ' lican organisation which had impor- the Connolly Association would not be discharging its responsibility if it did not sioners have got, and is the old trick of had fts ups and its downs. It could now tant objectives in common. The Con- sound the note of unity among fc-ish British Toryism. claim without fear of contradiction that nolly Association was insistent that poli- people in Britain If others did not come And then evon "Reynolds News" has it was the most influential Irish organisa- tical methods were needed Were the with the Association in seeing unity with posters on show which say: "Serving tion in Britain. doubts which Sinn Fein had on this sub- the British Labour Movement as equally Democratic Britain"—and display the six But even though the future 1 argely ject any argument against co-operating essential, it was no reason for rejecting counties prominently in the picture. depended on how fast, it could establish where we did agree? For example, why the unity that could be obtained. Will they never learn? When there was fresh branches and grow into a mass not a joint campaign in Britain for the The pre-condition for unity was, he a newspaper strike the British people had movement, it was its policy to try to get disbandmrnt of the B" Specials? The stressed, the building up of a strong Con- a fair picture of foreign countries for the united action with others Anti-Partition League was not a Repub- nolly Association, since the ideas of Con- first time they heard nothing about lican organisation, and its leaders. nolly were the unifying Ideas. them. It the Irish in Britain spoke with one 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT May 1955 May 1955 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3

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> Prison for going on strike f * IBISH DEMOCRAT 'OME emplnyci:.' as.-oisal 10 and trade Registrar under section l(j of the Trade N as-iicial ions conic under ihe Com- Union Act. 1871 together with such re- > IS ONE OF THE PROVISIONS OF i 53 Rosoman Street, London, E.C.l panics Acts and may spend money on poli- turn covering the union's income and ex- I ncal objects without hindrance provided, penditure as to its Northern Ireland mem- THE TRADES DISPUTES ACT > All communications to Subscription Rates: of e.uirsc, that ilie memorandum of asso- bers as the Registrar may require. * The Editor, • 12 months 5/6 ciation of the company does not preclude * ,-uch expenditure. A trade union with members in N. * DESMOND GREAVES 6 months 2/9 Ireland and having its principal office out- STILL IN FORCE IN * * Adver 10 - per column inch; or by arrangement The repeal of section lour of the 1927 side the United Kingdom must furnish to Act would simply mean a return to the the Registrar such information relating to //I procedure laid down in the 1913 Act with the business carried on in Northern Ire- its ample safeguards for members who land as may bo required. Sub-section (2) NORTHERN IRELAND do not wish to pay the political levy. of section eight further states in relation REMEMBER to such unions that "until compliance has T.U. INFORMATION" ARTICLE CONTINUED been effected . . . with ail requirements — — Civil Servants of the Trade Union Acts 1871 to 1917, or TO VOTE Section five of the 1927 Act makes it ob- this Act which are applicable to such Northern Ireland and authorised to accept for the repeal of the Act. Innumerable re- trade union, it shall not be entitled in service of process or notices on behalf of solutions to this effect have been adopted ATOTE against the Tories must be the ligatory on the Government of Northern 1 the union . by trade union bodies year alter year. Irish slogan in the British General Ireland to make regulations prohibiting Northern Ireland to any of the privileges established civil servants in its service of those Acts." The Northern Ireland Conference of Election. trade unions affiliated to the Irish Trade But there is much work to do before from joining any trade union not con- Every trade union carrying on business Demand for Repeal Union-Congress meeting in Ballymenu. on polling day. fined to civil servants, any trade union in Northern Ireland other than a union The trade union movement in Northern 18th June, 1954. adopted the following re- Neither the Irish Times nor the "Man- affiliated to other unions not confined to registered there must also furnish to the Ireland has always been united in its solution : chester Guardian think partition likely civil servants, any trade union which has Registrar the names, addresses and occu- opposition to the Trade Disputes arid political objects, or any trade union pations of one or more persons resident in Trade Unions Act, 1927, and in its demand Conference notes with concern that, to figtirs in the campaign. The "Guardian" which is directly or indirectly associated -despite the repeated demands of the gloats over the fact; the Irish Times" with a political party. Trade Union. Movement in Northern nostalgically regrets it and gravely chides Ireland, the Northern Ireland Govern- the Anti-Partition League for maladroit- The effect of the section, apart from its ment has not repealed the Trade Dis- ness in mentioning the matter at all. restrictions on individual civil servants, is putes and Trade Unions Act (Northern Yet the call to Irish voters to ask candi- to prevent Civil Service trade unions lrom Ireland). 1927. Conference again calls dates their viaws on partition, and to vote joining a federation of professional work- GESTAPO IN THE upon tire Government to repeal thi. Act for those that give a straight answer ! ers outside the Civil Service and from immediately and so bring Northern Ire- against it, is fair enough. Of course, where affiliating to a congress of trade unions or land into line with Great Britain or. this matter. two in the same contest give the same a political party. OFFICE ? The sixtieth annual meeting of the answer, the issue must be judged by other Employees of the Imperial Government Irish Trade Union Congress held in L:m- things. in Northern Ireland are not affected as the erick on 21st to 23rd July, 1954 adopted the Pledge-gathering alone, however, will repeal of the corresponding British Act prove insufficient. There is a certain diffi- IRISH LEAFLETS "DISAPPEAR following resolution: removed these restrictions on the British culty about this election, Official policies, Civil Service. Congress calls upon the Government Labour and Conservative, have too much \IRS. LENA JEGER, M.P. has of Northern Ireland to take immediate Vote Tory amd we x 1 in common to present a clear-cut picture Section live restricts the legitimate asked for a rsport on the mys- action for the repeal of the Trade Dis- rights of civil servants as workers and as terious delay in the post suffered by putes and Trade Unions Act (Nor'hem to the man in the street. The B.B.C. con- citizens. It gives rise to many anomalies: i leaflets which were to have been dis- Ii eland i. spiracy against minority opinion means for instance, it applies only to established tributed at a meeting jointly ad- This Act is a negation of democracy that other issues are being thrust to one civil servants and not to unestabhshecl per i dressed by the Connolly Association and a denial of tile right of association side, as well as partition. Nobody is to be sonnel. and Holborn and St. Pancras Labour of workers not compatible with declara- allowed on tt>3 air to attack German re- Party. tions made about irecdom enjoyed by armament, or criticise atomic warfare, The repeal ol the section could not Leaflets showed the effect of Tory work people. though, to put it mildly, much of the elec- threaten the impartiality of civil servants gerrymandering in Northern Ireland The corresponding Act in Britain has torate feels grave doubts on these subjects. in the discharge of their official duties as and its application to London. now been repealed for near.y nine -.irs. Between now and polling day, then, it is the individual civil servant who car- But though printed and des- It is ol interest in this connectio . to politically conscious people should try to ries on the day to day work of the Govern- patched so that normally they would quote from the Second Reading spree:; oi mak2 the election of mock issues into ment, and not their trade unions. have arrived in London two days the Attorney-General in the Northern Ire- an election of real issues, and partition is before the meeting, they did not land House of Commons on October 18th. a question which to throw light on is to arrive. 1927. Among the reasons he cited for the illuminate other things as well. Employees of Public Repeated phone calls to Mount Office, according to the National COLONIALISM MUST GO enactment of the Act was the desirability Conservative policy is traditionally Im- Pleasant Post Office brought no re- Council lor Civil Liberties which of "uniformity" in legislation of this Kind perialist, and its aims of preserving Em- Authorities sponse-there was nothing there. ought to be made strong enough to be able to take up such casesi. between Northern li t land and Briia in. pire demand war preparations (including Section six of the 1927 Act imposes re- I Then, the day after the meeting Later in his speech lie pointed out that GREAT HOPES IN H-Bombs), vast military expenditure, re- took place, the leaflets arrived. They strictions on !,:>cal and other public autho-| "Letters sent through the post forty out ol sixty unions then opeiatmg striction of working class income, con- had been "found," said the postman. lilies and on their employers. It prohibits may be and in fact are opened in in Northern Ireland had their headt/al- scription, and the maintenance of overseas these authorities from making member- BUT, the parcels arrived with obedience to an express warrant ters m Britain and that these unions- bases for military purposes. Northern Ire- AFRO-ASIAN TALKS covers torn and string untied. They in writing under the hand of a m- ship of a trade union a condition of em- braced the great majority of Nor': land is one of these. looked as if they had been tampered secretary of state." ern ployment, It also prevents them from workers. He went on: with! The Irish question is thus a part ol the stipulating that contractors to these This was slipped into the Post authorities must employ only trade union- Mount Pleasant Post Office, who Office Act, 1953. Previously it had (he Government can see no Imperial question. ists. delivered them, flatly refused to ans- been done illegally! reason why these tin:,.ins should ii< : be Conservative policy ought to be opposed wer question. subject to the same limitations in No by a Labour policy as clear-cut and plain The section makes an unjustifiable dis- What we now want is for the Post- em Ireland that they are subject t Pictures show how one end was master Genera! to produce ths ex- in its implications—freedom for the Em- tinction between public and private em- Great Britain." untouched, the other left loosely press warrant in writing which en- pire, disarmament, no H-Bomb prepara- ployees on the issue of making trade union bunched together. Slits and tears titles him to open Irish Democrat" Logically then these limitations ha\ tions, military service limited to the smal- passing under the string marked membership a condition of employment. correspondence or, failing that, to been removed m Britain, they should : lest possible term, spending money on the one side- and the string which on punish those responsible for tamper- Sub-section i4) of the section deals with be removed in Northern Ireland. working people's wages, amenities and de- one side had been looped round the ing with our mail. strikes in public services. It adds the fol- cross piece was left hanging loose. * The existence on the Statute Bool: velopment. lowing provision to section five of the Public relations man soon "came It is obvious that those who do the the 1927 Act has precluded the Brit The absence of such a clear Labour Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act off" the "weren't properly packed" Gestapo work Act. ncalth services and c:lucation, the so- ATMOSPHERE IN THE WORLD. (Em- base there. * * * language. Even then Java is not Dutch. " What a hope!" says the Irish observer. already provided adequate protection to I^EAR SIR, I was surprised to note that called civilised nations are spsnding many phasis mine L.B.). TUBERCULOSIS the community from hardship caused by I the recent issue of the "Irish Demo- hundreds of millions of money in prepara- Even then Ireland would not be British True, but Imperialism always cherishes crat' and your programme for the future In an atmosphere so created, the prob- (OO K at the map: the extent of those * * * such strikes by workers m municipal or tions for a war of annihilation. Discussions are under way between the hopes that It will bounce some people and contained no reference whatsoever to the lems of Ireland and of Irish workers would L vast territories. These are the terri- other statutory gas or water undertakings. Ireland as a neutral nation has a special Connolly Association and the Socialist over-all subject of the Hydrogen-Bomb and be seen in a new light. Ireland stands to tories which foimerly had NO voice They OW they have the task ol recreating bludgeon others Into acquiescence with responsibility in the world crisis of to-day, Medical Association on ways and means (The section was extend d to apply t. > the the threat of nuclear warfare, although gain in every sense through co-operation \ its conquests. because the neulral nations can act as were the silent nations, spoken lor b\ their country. To do so they want supply of electricity by section 31 ol the we are all well aware that the fate of Ire- with builders of the bridge to peace. For ol combatting the spread of tuberculosis mediators and help to build the bridge to Britain and France and America Now world peace, freedom from the remaining The people of Saxony voted solid Electricity (Supply Act. 1919) The 187.) lanj as well as of every other nation de- Peace means a revival of constructive and among Irish and other immigrants in peaoj advocated by His Holiness the Pope, they need no spokesmen, they speak for bonds of Imperialism, which still exist,, Labour; and Labour intends to stop the Act makes it a criminal offence for an em- pends now upon the use made of these creative activities. Eimland. Dr. Marcus Lipton. MP for through moral rather than material deter- Paris agreements being operated in Ger- new mass murder weapons by the politi- Yours truly, themselves and when a conference representing ployee of such an undertaking to break his rents. Lambeth, and Dr. Norman MacDonald many. British Toryism wants German cians and military advisers of the Great LOUIE BENNETT 1,600,000,000 people meets to demand these contract of service it he knows or has held an intormal meeting on tins subject Ireland could ha ye been there. boys as cannon-fodder. German people Powers. The Connolly Association could and St. Brigids, Killiney, things, it is difficult to see how thev will reasonable cause to believe that the pro- True Ireland is part of Europe, but so Co. Dublin, Ireland. ii: London on May 2nd. Dr Simon Sevitt want a united Germany, independent, should play a part in the building of such 1 not get their way. bable consequence "will be to deprive the But we cannot hide from ourselves the and like Austria neutral and unmlll- a bridge by accepting Sir Richard Acland's ( Bii mhigham and Mr Desmond Greaves is Greecc. And the days when countries fact that every one of us, however insigni- * * * tarised. Opposition to German rearma- inhabitants (of the area) wholly or to a policy of gradually abandoning reliance on (Editor, " Irish Democrat ' ' iepresenting could be divided into " European and True. Sir John Kotelwala went from ficant our worldly status has a moral re- ment is not aimed at keeping Germany great extent of their supply" of gas. water ...... the Hydrogen-Bomb for national defence [The "Irish Democrat" has the great1 L the Connolly Association. Ceylon to divert attention lrom Imperial- or electricity. s possibility In this matter, because we can and spendjn8 ,hc vast sums 0( m0 ,hus down for ever, as some think. It Is based 1 pleasure in endorsing the plea for a ism by pointing long Index fingers at at least join the growing protest .gainst ,„ *hc, f » on preventing Anglo-American imperial- P K policy designed to eliminate atomic, Communism. He was taken no notice of. the destruction of life health and he ,„ „ countrle s a nd U8£ th|s TO BECOME A REGISTERED READER AND QUALIFY ism from making a tool of the German warfare, abolish weapons of mass de- Most of the people of occupied territories achievement of centuries of human toll ^ people. Furnishing of Returns pose international organisations such as struction, and through peace solve the know who occupies them As Mr. De threatened by these weapons and their W H 0 F A Q 0.N.E^.C.0 ,.L0, orw. economic and political problems which FOR ALL ITS ADVANTAGES (See Page Four) Valera said, we'll not be worried about Ten years have worked wonders A Section eight of the 1927 Act deals with incalculable effects upon future genera- nis„jong now hamperad by ,ach 0( ful£s have been created bv successive aggres- generation which has never known con- ,,ons FILL UP THIS FORM AT ONCE ! the Russian parachutists who might drop, the furnishing of returns to the Registrar - and competent workers. sions. Miss Bennett, who is president, scription and militarism (except that oi when we can see the British parachutists of Friendly Societies in Northern Ireland. We, the common people, can make that "If," as Acland says, "we could stand of the Irish Women Workers' Union, occupation) has grown up. The greatest protest strong enough to compel the poli- outside the immediate arena of mutual and a recent president of the Iri'-h Name who don't need to drop! event In Western Europe since the war is A trade union having its registered office Trades Union Congress, can be sure in Great Britain and carrying on business tlclans to reconsider the policy of fear fear and hate, if we could at the same time With China and India in their van, the re-emergence ol the independent and hate whioh is obstructing progress to- embark upon a significant attack on the that her courageous and downright German working-class movement, and in Northern Ireland must transmit to the these countries will prove invincible. wards the social justloa and "the good life poverty of the world, then there would be stand has the sympathy of the over- Address • • * every Irishman will give them sympathy Registrar copies of the returns and docu- for all" that is claimed to be the object of a chance that we and other peoples work- whelming majority of the Irish workers and'support in their efforts to prevent ments required to be sent to the British in Britain EDITOR Post this Coupon with 5/6 to: civilisation. But whilst millions of poople ing with us might slowly FIND THE WAY Another blow was struck British and their country becoming an Imperialist 53 ROSOMAN ST., LONDON, E.C.1 American Imperialist intrinues when the bridgehead like Northern Ireland. 4 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT May 1955 A "BREAK" IN THE SIX COUNTIES? LETTEKS I \EAR SIR - Eden the Unionist Whilst travelling on the train from Richmond the other evening CIR ANTHONY EDEN, the mild- works m Europe. It has the tition, and puts the blame 1111 IRISH DEMOCRAT CORRESPONDENT EXAMINES NOVEL FEATURES about 10.0. I noticed two workmen get mannered poseur who an- largest brass-hat factory 111 the Labour. into the carriage. world. paigning on the failure of the Stormont men's heads to force them to work for nounces the departure of the Do not be deceived; partition- ism is not a genuine Labour DIGGEST anti-Unionist vote in the history of the Six and Westminster Tories to bring more less than a living uatre or to emigrate. One turned to his companion, a super - showman, is generally Eden will none-the-less pretend Irish Democrat young Irishman about 22, and said. to a more " reasonable " attitude policy; and if Labour abandons it, " Counties is expected when the people go to the polls on work to the Six Counties. " In a united Ireland." he declared, believed to expect but a short life and every Irishman should try to " You have a kip. You've had a long than had his stormy predecessor. No agreement, however, has been " every man will have security to at the head of the Tory Party. see this is done, the Conservatives May 26. interview with day. I'll wake you when we come to there is unlikely to be any great reached among opposition groups—the marry and live in his own country." He is needed for this election. will fight for partition to the last But because of the undemocratic Nationalists, Sinn Fein and Irish the station." gasp, as they fought Home Rule change in the number of Tories He is going to pose as the man of nature of the Six-County State, SINN FEIN Labour—to see that the most effective Told the "Democrat" In a moment the young chap, who and (thanks to the Liberals being sent to Westminster. peace, of fair dealing and kindly and because of disunity among blow possible is dealt to the imperial- was obviously completely exhausted, as craven as right wing Labour 1 Tom Heenan, S:n:i Fein election ways. Then, if the Tories get in, substituted partition in its place. opposition groups—most of whom Belfast, alleged " capital" of ists' political machine, the Unionist was dead to the world. That at any organiser, told the Irish Democrat" intrigues will be set afoot to stand for much the same objects— Unionism and its only big urban Party. not neglect rate enabled him to forget the terrible But it was during the debate on that the party would replace him. strongpoint. will show itself to be a in cough he had. He was working from MOST WELCOME FEATURE OF economic question-- its election the Ireland Bill (1949) that Mr. great anti-Tory city when the ballots 7.30 a.m. till 9.30 p.m. and lived an THE CAMPAIGN IS THAT FOR campaign. Sour-faced Butler, unashamed Eden, as he then was, showed his are counted. hour's journey from the site. defender of the moneybags, will THE FIRST TIME IN ANY SIX- Republicans knew well, he said, true colours. Referring to the come in to carry out the plans The election hits the Stormont poli- that the main str-iiu' ih of the move- " They like the money," was his 1925 protocol, he said: COUNTY ELECTION, NOT ONE big business has already made to EDUCA TION ticians at a time when their claptrap • from " the men UNIONIST WILL GO UNCHAL- nient had always r"iiit companion's remark. (He turned out resist wage increases, and bog- "That was the agreement about " prosperous Ulster" is echoing LENGED. ot no property." to be the foreman on the job. 1 Britain down still deeper 111 which recognised the existing back at them, hollow and mocking, SCANDAL "WE BELIEVE IN THE SLOGAN Hard-earned money surely. What a colonial Imperialism and war. boundary of the Six Counties. "DEPRESSION" HAS REPLACED Sinn Fein CARRIED BY THE AIRCRAFT toll working hour s 1 i k p these must But even as a label on a bottle, That is where I stood in 1925. /•"AN you graduate from a work- "PROSPERITY" IN ALL THE Every Democrat will be able to cast WORKERS LAST WEEK," HE take of the health of thousands U Mr. Eden is not what he seems. I am committed to that, and so house as an engineer, or learn UTTERANCES OF PUBLIC MEN his vote against the political swindlers DECLARED — BRITAIN GETS Irishmen and what a big factor this His first action after the an- are others of us who supported the principles of physics and AND OF THE PRESS. yvhi:rk Belfast children whose rule, based on the meanest THE LOAF, ULSTER GETS THE must be in the spread of tuberculosis nouncement ol the election was to the agreement." chemistry behind the bars of a PLAY appeals to bigotry and prejudice, lias CRUMBS." Parades of the unemployed and ol and other similar diseases. write and congratulate the Ulster In other words, Mr. Eden is jail ? Many people who had tech- those workers threatened with unem- kept the area in backwardness and He added that the Republican view It's a waste of time telling Irishmen Unionist Party on what they were committed to partition, and has doing. No wonder he gave an nical education in Northern Ire- ployment are stealing the thunder try and the threatened dismissal of 600 poverty for over 30 years. was that the way in get the loaf was not to work such long hours when supported it continuously for over evasive reply to those who asked land have had to try to do so. from parades of the Unionist jingoist thirty years. To change Labour more. This opportunity is provided by by breaking the connection with there's so few facilities available to his opinion on partition. He bandwagon. As forecast in the " Irish Demo- Sinn Fein, which is contesting all British imperialism, politically and spend their spare time otherwise. on this issue may be difficult, but The part-time makeshift conversion doesn't want to lose votes from SIR ANTHONY EDEN to change Toryism will be impos- crat " in March, the industry, exist- twelve seats, including some in which economically. Can't you do something about this? of u xkhouses, jails and churches used anyone confused enough to listen sible. No Dole Here ing from hand to mouth on hand- there has been no contest for years. to be the usual way ol providing tech- While people still prophesy that the Yours sincerely. to his pleadings, but he wants Having no Liberal wild oat sowing Ten thousand aircraft w orkers No doubt Mr. Eden is estimable. nical school accommodation, and in outs from the British Government, This Republican movement is show- election results on the surface will those Six Counties to stay the way to live down, he is more free to MARGARET LARMOUR. His very name sits up and begs marched through the city a few days could not continue long without ing a growing tendency to place present a familiar picture, and will be they are. many places outside Belfast this prac- manoeuvre. And he will be helped for votes by suggesting something alter the election was announced, major unemployment. emphasis on bread-and-butter issues used by the Tory liars as proof that * * * tice rJll survives. And in Belfast General Templar in the mean- in this by the regrettable attitude of paradise and innocence—of his demanding work. With the position of the permanent in its appeal to the traditions of the the people are still ignorant enough to time has been made Chief of the itseJl *he accommodation for technical OEADERS will wish Mr. J. M. Hut- of the right wing of Labour, which politics nobody need rest in the The bigotted Orange slogan, " No jobless in Derry, Newry and other people. vote fpr them, a closer examination of Imperial General Staff, post education is still exactly the same as chinson, the Tyrone man who is passed the Ireland Act with the slightest doubt. Pope Here," used to dull the workers' centres getting more desperate, it is Speaking in support of the Sinn the voting will probably show that the traditionally held by an Ulster it was fifty years ago. organising the Connolly Association aid of Tory votes. Politically he is as true blue wits in the past, is gone, and has been expected that Labour will win increased Fein candidate in Armagh, a Repub- Unionist clique in the Six Counties is Tory from the time of Sir Henry a This damning neglect of technical branch in Luton, a speedy recovery from Tory as ever walked and the Tory replaced by the demand, " No Dole support. lican speaker, Frank McGl.vn, declared ruling against hall or more of the Wilson onwards. He has only got to say he agrees education by the Stormont Govern- pleurisy for which he has iust entered Here." The Northern Ireland Labour Party, that the Six Counties were returning population. The issue then remaining Belfast has the largest rope- with what they say; he backs par- leopard does not change its spots. : ment was exposed by Mr. J. U. Stewart, hospital. Mr. Hutchinson is well read The men were protesting against the though strong enough to contest only to the " hungry thirties " and that the is: how will this majority become president of the Federal Council ol and well versed in Irish politics, and sacking of 300 from the aircraft indus- three seats—all in Belfast—is cam- threat of unemployment was held over united? Teachers in Northern Ireland, when here are some of the points he makes he addressed the " Ulster " Teachers' in a letter to the " Irish Democrat ":— Union Annual Conference on April ******************** ************************ ********** ************************************************ ******************* • • Ten short years after " World War 22ncl, Mr. Stewart, who is head of • • 2," the war to end all wars, the poli- the department of commerce in Bel- • • • • ticians and statesmen are talking fast College of Technology, said ** • • about World War 3. May Day, 1955, Northern Ireland had always lagged • • • • O'CASEY, QUIRKE AND DILLON is a day when organised Labour all behind. Local education authorities, • • • • over the world demonstrates its established in England in 1902, were • • 1V0W is perhaps the time to ciated was engaged in selling • • solidarity. This May Day is especially TO MARK OUR TWENTIETH not set up in the Six-Countv area until • • comment on the furore which Irish estates to British buyers. A important for Irish tra^.,unionist.s in 1923. • • • • greeted O'Casey's play, "The From our Dublin Correspondent sad end to a fine beginning. Britain because of the' mlfnty issues • • * * * ANNIVERSARY The latest English Act was passed in • • Bishop's Bonfire." Of this, the which confront them. • • Bishop of Meath wrote quite good- forced to emigrate. He is Ire- Not that they could have written A/JR. DILLON'S recent speech on 1944 'he Northern Ireland Act took • • We must secure the return of a • • humouredly that what O'Casey land's greatest living emigrant. it—it is full of real fun which agricultural prospects was three \ears longer, and, in his opinion, • • genuine Socialist and working-class was inferior in a great manv respects. • • wanted was not a Bishop's Bonfire TPHIS was a terrible loss for wring loud laughs even from the described by the opposition as the TO REGISTERED READERS ONLY • • Labour Government pledged, among Although lip-service was paid to pro- • • but a " bonfire of Bishops." But * Dublin, and, some say, a loss unwilling critics themselves. It most lugubrious ever mouthed by • • is full of kindness and noticeably a politician. We had priced our- other things to have all-German elec- gress. it was not liked . . . the more • • the Bishop acclaimed O'Casey as for O'Casey himself. But since • • lacking in rancour, finally it is selves out of eggs, poultry, bacon tion for a free and independent Ger- things changed, the more they • • Ireland's greatest playwright! he went to England he has given • • much to the working people of full of that undefinable quality and whatnot; woe worth the day many, instead ol rearmament. There MAGNIFICENT OFFER iema:ned the same. There was a class • • The Abbey has passed the same that makes a work of art worth when we would price ourselves out • • that country also; he has asso- should be a new approach to the ques- system of education before the war, judgment. What are they to play • • ciated himself with every move- while—life. of beef. tion of colonial exploitation, and the and !i:ey still had it with merely a • • in Paris but O'Casey. What else • * * • • ment for their betterment, and Your correspondent has been opening up of trade discussions 011 a few cl the rougher corners smoothed • • could they play to show Ireland to T. A. JACKSON'S 440-page • • has been uncomprising and un- l> ILL QUI RK E dies recently, out down country and seen the pro- far wider field than has ever been off. • • the world? purchasable. Never forget, if he hunting, as he would have • • cesses at work. Agriculture is tried before. There should be genuine wished. He had had a full life, G: ;nmar schools were divided into • • "The Bishop's Bonfire" had its had wanted to sell, the price prosperous for the cattle-rancher, Pour-Power talks to stop making • • with a fine Republican record, in- HISTORY OF IRELAND t wo .'.pes, and the "nice" ones were • • world premiere in Dublin. would have been the sky. but for few others. Beet crops atomic and hydrogen bombs; the • » " The Bishop's Bonfire" pro- cluding a spectacular escape from abi< 'o discourage working - class • • O'Casey is a Dubliner of were poor last year. Wheat MR. J. M. HUTCHINSON Spike Island. He had done Government that is needed in Britain child ^n by charging fees and other • • working-class origin whose first vided the occasion for an envious acreage is down by a third. Pro- (Secretary. Luton C.A.i "Ireland, her own" • • various jobs in America, returned would be prepared to work with all device . • • published work (in 1919) was his and cowardly attack on a man cessed meat exports are down. • • " History of the Citizen Army," who has brought credit to the when the Fianna Fail star was in Passing through the country, and Governments that wanted world peace. Mi. Stewart was opening a discus- • • • • of which he was for a time secre- name of Ireland throughout the the ascendant, and lived to watching the beautiful country- 10/6 ** The question of partition should be sion after an address by Dr. W. P. world. The venal snapping curs achieve wealth and honour, as * * tary. For this alone he would be side of our changing from moment raised at all election meetings through- Alexander, secretary ol the Association ** sure of a place in the affection of who make up the bulk of Dublin's Fianna Fail Senator, Mayor of to moment through the train win- DANGER! ** out England, and every Irishman YOURS FOR FIVE BOB! ol L' i al Education Committees ol ** Irish Republicans. theatre critics vented their im- Clonmel, a,nd a rusmber of the dows, I was struck by the small ** hierarchy of the Fianna Fail should be prepared to attend those Britain, who said that before the last ** But then he produced some of potent rage on the work of a man amount of tillage that remains, ** so immeasurably greater than Party. meetings in order to keep the Irish OUR FUND! the greatest plays of this century, and the derelict condition of many wai only one child in eight in England ** and Wales attended secondary schools. ** " The Plough and the Stars," themselves that Dublin stands to But such is the paradoxical farm buildings. question in the forelront at all times. ONATIONS are coming too, slowly ** HOW TO SECURE YOUR COPY (while they last) Now the figure was lour out ol five, ** "Juno and the Paycock" and lose what reputation remained to position of former great Repub- But cattle prices have been Candidates should be asked where i) 111 to our £5,000 I unci. An elec- ** " The Star Turns Red." it as a centre of serious dramatic licans — he was one of the big wonderful. So wonderful that Mr. and v. thin the next five years secon- ** they stand. We should raise the tion in Britain provides lresh oppor- ** Bccause of the " dangerous criticism. figures in the party that secured Dillon is a little scared. But still matter in a dispassionate and logical Fill in what applies below. dary education for all would be a ** tunities lor us to put lorward Ireland's ideas" which he expressed in his Suppose for a moment the play its votes from small farmers, realil;.. ** he sticks to his policy; back to manner, but ask about the auxiliary ** work during the Cosgrave reac- was as full of technical faults as claiming to be the heir to the demands lor unity and independence ** grazing, cut the tillage, cut the police force allowed to roam the roads Enclose the appropriate sum and post to: Pk ent Minister ol Education in the ** tion, the ideas of confidence In the critics would have us believe. Republican tradition — but he labour, the land for the bullocks and to win support for them among ** of the Six Counties. We should Stormont Government is Mr. H. C. the working class, hatred of war, Does anybody believe that if it spent his time facilitating the and the men for the emigrant the Labour Movement here. But it ** demand the repeal of the Trades Dis- Midglry, who was formerly a Labour ** belief in the Socialism the Citizen had been written by one of them- reconquest of Ireland by British ship. And the Irish country takes money and we have to look to 53 ROSOMAN STREET, LONDON, E.C.I • • putes Act, which still operates 111 the M P, before he formed the breakaway • • Army stood for, he was denied an selves it would have been the sub- Imperialism. The firm of auc- people can go to "Hell or Kil- you for that! Send us your donations Commonwealth Labour Party and then outlet in his native city and ject of such a barrage of attack? tioneers with which he was asso- burn." Six Counties, and call attention to the now collect among your friends and Joined the Tones. E.McL. ************************************************************************************************************************************ Gerrymandering and the Special on the job we'll put it all to good use. * If you are already a REGISTERED READER Powers Act. never fear. Name The Irish voter will have to remind FIGHTING FUND the various candidates of the size of Kind donors include the lollowing, THE LATEST PAMPHLET WHAT WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID the Irish vote, and show how It can be and our heartiest thanks go out to Address decisive 111 this election, so that the them: L. Bowes, 2 -; A. French, 0 -; J. their purpose they will |)f. law-abiding, British politicians will have to take the Rogers, 10 '-; Deptlord Y.C L„ 2 6; C. Supplier's Name ABOUT THE TORIES aye. and law-enforcing When social question of Ireland seriously. McLiam. 1 -; O. Maguire. 18; P. order means the order ot the propertied The past year has seen great strides McLaughlin, 10 -; Irene Nack, 4 6; J- 'IRISHMEN MAKE GOOD classes against the wage-earner, when a speech in Bradford, Mr. "There is the ascendancy spirit. in the movement for peace, and we Garnett, 4 6; L. McDermott, 5/3; M. social order means the master against Supplier's Address R There is the spirit which we are con- have certain knowledge that the Kane, 10 -; J.C., 10 -; L. Aiken, 10 -; Winston Churchill (referring the man, or the landlord against fronted. There is the. obstacle to the people ol the world do not want war; 1). MacColl, 5/-; Mrs. M. Kelly, 10'-; TRAD UNIONISTS' to Prime Minister Asquith) said : the tenant, order is sacred and holy, I ENCLOSE 5/- FOR THE BOOK. peace and unity of Ireland. There we want peace and prosperity, and Waterside Workers ol Australia, 13 1; order is dear to 'he heart of the " The Prime Minister in one ol his stands the barrier which, when all Irish people want a United Ireland. per W. O'Neill, 2 -; G. McNamee. 8d ; Tory Party and order must be main- great speeches asked: 'II Home Rule just claims have been met, and all the That will be in the best interests of T. I'. Cuddy, 2 f>; Winifred Newton, tained by lorce. Hut il it should * If you are not yet a REGISTERED READER were to tail now, how would you Britain also. 2/6; J. M. Hutchinson, 2 6; T. J. BUT WE NEED MORE fears, reasonable and unreasonable, happen that the Constitution or the govern the rest of Ireland?' Captain have been prevented, still blocks the O'Brien, 5 -; P. McLaughlin, 1 -; Mrs. law or the maintenance ()| order stands you can become one by filling in the Form on Craig, an Ulster member, a man quite path ol Irish freedom and British Powell, 2 6; Sean O'Casey. £2 2s.; OF THEM representative of those lor whom he in the path of some Tory project, MANCHESTER progress. stands m the path n| the realisation F H O , 5-; Collections, Birmingham, Page Three, and enclosing either 10/- (Book, speaks. Interjected blithely, ' We have Connolly Association 9 -; Coventry, 26 10; Northampton, done it before'' " As long as It affects working men of some appetite in ambition which thev have conceive) then they vie 3 6; Total, £10 16s. 6(1 " There you get the true insight into in England or Nationalist peasants in plus a year's papers), 7/6 (Book, plus six with the wildest anarchists in the lan- TUESDAYS Read about the benefits of Trade Unionism the Tory mind. Coercion lor tour- Ireland, there is no measure ol mili- guage which they u;.<- against the con- flfths of Ireland is a healthful, tary lorce which the Tory Party will LABOUR PARTY ROOMS McGINTY'S TEN TO months' subscription. stitution, against the law, and against in this pamphlet exhilarating, salutary exercise, but lav not readily employ. 11 they cannot do all order and all mean ot maintaining OXFORD ROAD FOLLOW a finger on the Tory fifth sacrilege, it by I he veto of privilege, they will do order, and that Is tl.- political doctrine Durante, Snow Baby, Tippacanoe, PRICES: tyranny, murder! ' We have done it it by the veto ol violence. If constitu- (Opp. Frascatis) HURRY ! - WHILE STOCKS LAST! with which they sn me the twentieth Anton, Blue Comet, Ski Maid, TafTlo, before and we will do it again " tioilaV liiel hods serve their ends they Each 9d. 12, 8/6. 5doz., £2. 500, £15 centurv." March If:,. 1914. ALL SAINTS Bob, Fair Fight, Sun Show. 1 , : Mr. Winston Churchill .went on : will be congtjtutiojisLlist.Sk it.law suits May 1955 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7 May 1955 6 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT WEST BRITAIN OR EAST AMERICA? THE KENYA COMMITTEE

HAS REQUESTED The powerful tide of deir.Cs: 'Divided We Stand' M. Sheehy, Faber, 10/6. idea was making British policy Irelaia PUBLICITY FOR THIS 'PHIS is an ama/ing book. The Unionist reply is, well then, if your LETTER FROM KENYA lmpossiule to sustain, even -claue. LETTER It will cause great indignation in vital interests are endangered by "Russian starvation and treatment which arc to opinion in Britain." The President, The Land & Freedom Army, Ireland- we nope -but its importance is ;n Materialism." then logically you must de- organised by the Kenya Government. No wonder he refers to the B. i Com proportion to Us political purpose. The lend them b.v unconditional supp> irt Icr monwcalth i'.a've been due to weapons. 1953, and the second on January 18th, sons who are fighting in the darkness I: is interesting lo follow the course ol GENERAL SIR KERARI NJEMO land. Once tins is lealised. says Mr. Uie Northern community rightly insists." again prelerred to Christian i : .nciples: the c i!Urovers:es which were features of Sheehy. the twenty-six counties can join 'Irish Unity depends on the Southern territorial integrity to spiritual i .iegrity.'" P.S.-N.B.: There is no other peace or riii-- struggle- -and how it differs from the with Britain and the six counties in de- acceptance of the idea of European Then we have a further step. Birmingham. 100 lion.-'. Egghill Lane. I settlement ol Kenya troubles except commonly accepted account in the capi- fence ol "ChrMian civilisation" which is Unity, that is to say. on the Souths wil- "Ireland's refusal to co-operate against A. Langlev. £147.322 Wiyathi, Uhuru. freedom ol self-govern- talist world. now threatened by the "materialism ot lmgness to join the North as an intel- Russian aggression as previously against ment to the Kenva Africans. Wakefield. 230 houses. K'ttlethorpe. N. Ill tile same way the serious student ol Russia." ligent and responsible member of the German, lias widened the bread: between B. Bell. politics to-day should not be content with We knew this was bound to come. European Community." North and South."

Padgate (Lanes.) —Training College. G cV- headlines about events m Russia, but For ten years now "official" anti-parti- Tins is practically a quotation from an We all know German aggre--:>n took J. Seddon. £296.198 should get hold ol what is actually said, tion propaganda from the spokesmen of old leaflet by Mosley's Fascist party. place. Where has the Russian aggression Barry.—86 dwellings. Tieharve Rd. Direct and interpret it for himself. several parlies has been that Ireland re- On Irish history, Mr. Sheehy shows a that Mr. Sheehy speaks of take..: place? labour. £116.321. VOTE Above all. the year 1928 saw the begin- cognises her responsibility to "western strange bias. Of 1916-22 lie says: We would be glad to know—but fear it is Coseley (Staffs.)—76 houses. Gregory ning ol the First Five-year Plan in Rus- civilisation" and wishes to "make a con- "This national effort was in large part only in his imagination. But we Know ol Housing. £102.086. —Continued from Page Urn sia. and the beginning ol that country's tribution," but is prohibited from doing so unnecessary and the spiritual division it British Imperialist aggression in Kenya, Corby (Northants).—College Loakes and A Tory-dominated Britain is a menace to ascent to being tile great industrial power by the bordei'. caused was a gratuitous tragedy .... Malaya*Quiaga, and Ireland. Why is Bri- Pettit. £90.912. the unity and progress ol Ireland. Laboui she is to-day. | tish Imperialist aggression that i.as taker- in Britain can and must work lor the unity Creenwicn, -30 fiats. Heathside Estate. Twickenham. -48 fiats. Broad Lane Co Chester le Street—81 house.-. Scorers Lane. Stalin resolutely maintained that Social- %"> c"s c"j fs c"j t"j sTa ft t"s rt fj t'i ft t"» ft t"i t°j ^ tTa ft {"j ifj »*!• ft f* rt t"i placA e very good lor spiritual principles. ol Ireland. The co-operation ol Irish •Stewjh u\d Partners. £68.000. Partner Building. £91.574. Lumley. Direct labour. ism could be built in one country, given C While Russian aggression that Iras not people in Britain and at home, and with City. -St. Lawrence Jewry. Dove Bros, Wonibwell.—60 houses at Wilson Street the right conditions, and proceeded to C W taken place very bad for them ? West Ham. -163 dwellings at Claremont the help and guidance ol Irish labour, £149.000. Estate. T. H. Watford prove his point by doing jusi that. It is c THE PEELER AND THE GOAT This uninspiring monument lit West- Esta'- Tersons. £305,867. would work to erase the troubled effects c 3> Battersea. - 22 houses. Fontarabia Road. Cambridge.-Southern Secondary School. ol past Tory policy and create a demo- worth reading how it was done. P.B. British siavishness ends with the -entence: West Ham.-43 fiats, Water Lane. Strat- A BANSHA l'eeltr wint wan nigbt I'KHLIIR: 5 Direct labour. £44.826. J. Brignell. £207.750. cratic social luture for us all." c 2> "It is the most childish of evasions, the ford . -. sons. £102,820. On duty and palliroliin, (), I will chastise your insolinee, Woolwich.—42 dwellings. Coldharbour Es- Cardiff. -Secondary School. Llanishen. 5 most ignoble of pretences, to pif.ee the re- An' met a goat upon the road And violent behaviour, O. West Him. -35 dwellings, etc S. Motion Davies. Middleton and Davies. £112.000. MR. LEVER WRITES : € sponsibility for partition on Er.ssand, and tate, Eltham. Direct labour £60.761. An' tuck Iier lor a tliroller, t). Well bound to Cashel you'll be sint. Roar ; ...lers. £55.170. Cardiff. — School at Llanrumnev. Davies. Irish in Britain •r to ignore the many and fundamental dif- E.C. Office block at Kirby Street Whyatt " I have always been an admirer ol « Wud hey'net fi\ed he sallied forth. Where vou will gain no favour, <). Islington Fiats at Quadrant E 'ate. W i Builders i. £40.000 Middleton and Davies. £121.000 Ireland, and sympathetic to her claim foi •THE pamphlet published recently, "Insh- And caught her b> the wizzrn, <). The Magistrates will all consint ferences which more than adequaiely ex- c J S. :• £161,579. Berkeley Square. — Olfice block. F. G. Aylsham (Norfolk). — Secondary School. reunification I look forward to the day ' men Make Good Trade Unionists." is < And tlie.i lie swore a mightV oath, To sign your condemnation, (); plain the political division of Ireland." Mmter. £250.000. Potter Bros. £140.672 when all differences between North and "IT. send you oft to prison, O." From there to Cork you will be sinl Not content with mere "adequacy," 'Mr. W.C.2.—"Mentions at Shetton St Yates, interesting and useful to all those, both € 2> London, E.C. Saddlers Hall. Gutter Lane. Mansfield. 100 houses. L.advbrook. Wim- South will be ironed out and the united Irish and English, who are concerned with I or speedy transportation, O. Sheehy. a. becomes a young ma:i of sin- Cook Darbyshire. £197.000. C (J OAT: Cubitts. £312.000. pey. £129.224. Ireland can make its own fine and worth', GOAT: cerity. presents his readers with "more trade unionism. 1! is a report of a confer- € "O, mercj sill !" the gnat replied, Finchley Road 30 fiats. Tersons. £89.961. Mansfield.—70 houses. Ladybrook estate. contribution towards the progress ol This parish an' this neighbourhood i than adequacy" . . and yet . . and yet . . E.C.— St. Vedast Church. Foster Lane. J, ence held in London last November by the S "Pray let me tell nn story, ()! 3> mankind." Are paicable an' tlnanquil, <); I all these malodorous misbehav: Airs which E.I.—P? '>.'• ; Palace conversion. Mile End Longlev. £80.000. Direct labour. £96.810. "Irish Democrat ' S I ail) in) Kogue, no Itibhonman. 2> There's no disturbance here, thank 3s Road R Custain. £85.000. Tilbury.—Transit Shed. Main Dock Hollo- Sunderland. -Castle View School. Allis in Practically all constituencies are being It is clear that it determined effort was C No Croppy, Whig, or Tory, (); j blemish the record of the "Sou'h ' will be God! way. £500,000. and Sons. £96.460. contested by Conservatives and Labour made ly. the conlerenre to bring to the C I'm guilty not of an\ crime perfumed anil spiced to tire April day Hackney. —8i dwellings, Clapton Common And long may it continue so. Londonderry.—Church. Creggan Estate. J. The Conservatives were asked by the Of petty or high thraison, (), I again it she will lemember that -lie must W.C.1. Residential Hail. Meckienburgh notice ot the unions some i t Die difficul- c I don't regard your oath a pin, Esta'. Direct labour. £206.514. Anti-Partition League what were then I'm badly wanted at this lime, i not "manoeuvre as it prizes a::d bribes Square. Walter Lawrence. £250.000 Sisk. £100.000. ties which conlront the Irish emigrants in € Or sign for my committal, O, views on partition. The Head Office I'oi this is the milking saison, ()." I were to be awarded Lo those who will join WansteiO. Intants' School. Nightingale Enfield. -Warehouse and Lab Ford and Crawley.—Factory at Manor Royal Tay- Britain and lor that reason 1 would like C My jury will he jintlemin Davie Bro.-. £39.000. lor Woodrow. £100.000 refused to say. told them. " Ask the can- c j in the ureal crusade to safeguard the Walton. didates." Last time there was an election to see the pamphlet in the hands of all £ I'll II I!: And grant me my acquittal, <) 2= Southport.-109 dwellings. Radnor Drue. ? I western world." S.E.I.— Factor at Hopton Street G. E Bristol—Offices at Baldwin Street Hay- they asked the candidates and were told, responsible people ;n the Hade union £ II is in \.un fur In complain 1*1111 K: ; Mcanitm give us the bases and you're Wail i- £100,000 ward and Wooster. £151.500 R. J. Barton. £164.611 "Ask the Central Office The Liberals movement. Or give \oin tongue such hiidle, The (onseiiuince he w hat il will, S Reading. 72 lv.ni.es. etc St. Michael's O; a line lellow ! Portland Place, W.I. Oflices. Higg: and Slough. -Houses at Wexham Court Estate. indicated a willingness to " reconsider While I v. a . l eading the contributions S \ peeler's power I'll let you know. Wimpey. £673.987. Francis Bros £90.144 the position.' made by oiai of the union leaders and Vou'i r absent from >0111 ilw riling- I'll liandculV you, at all events, Tins i a win -mongering boo',". '1 his is a Hill. £100.000. e" Bradford. Ecclcshill School Simms. Sons place. \nd march you olT lo Bridewell, (> 2>F.ec i t book. It. is Fascist m policy, n. Stalybridge. 75 houses, Copley Estate. F The Anti-Partition League did not ask now they cNpla.ned from their experience Enfield. - HS dwellings. Manor Farm. Disorderly and idle, O \n' sure, you rogue, you can't deny, spn:;. and in the contemptible i .neapness Oarmon. £76,883. and Cooke. £202.727. the Communist Party, this party having the ] .11011 ;n which Ii .shmen lound e** s Tow... ••• : and Coffins. £124.224. ^'iiur Imai'N locks will mil prevail. Before the judge or jury, (>, 2 Leeds. 186 houses at Seacroft. Tong Rd . Tynemouth.- 81 pairs of houses. Kenners- already included the ending of the bordei IhciiiMsve wneii they lir"-1 arrived in "a and shoddiiies.. ol its tacts and arguments Lewisharr. - Hither Green Crematorium. C? Nor your sublime oration. <). Intimidation with your horns, u Cow Close. Ireland Wood. Moortown. dene Park. Tersons. in its election programme There are 17 151'11;11'! I . Mild not help but remember my i he sliallownes . ol its misinterpretations A. R,o--t.* £65 800. C You'll be thransported by I'eel's \il, \nd threatening me willi fury, <>. Wimpey £257.445. Coventry. — Cathedral foundations J. Communist candidates One of them own i :-.[»• t . f : J i i , a I a similar time I o| in: ioi v and tiiewhmeol unappreciated Tottenham.-West Green Road. Housing I |mhi m> inlormation, <) (.OA I Leeds. - 112 houses and 136 houses at Sea- Laing. £90.729. Mr. Bent, is opposing Mr George Isaacs realised I :a 11 that there i- g real dlller- £ "s geiini v.hicii runs through it.- callow R J. Rowley. £56.770. (iOAT 1 make no doubt but you are dlirunk u croft and Batts Lane. Geo. Calverlev. Londonderry Golerame School J Rainey. m Southwark. eii(V oeiween the view ol life in Britain C pae S.W.9.—St John the Divine, Vassall Road. No penal law did I transgre- . Wud whisky, rum, or brandy, <) £291.619. £166.551 taken by the lev. arrival lo what it aitu- c B.ii is.no, i- it at your peril —Mr. Tadhg Ward and Paterson. £40,000. MR. BENT WRITES: deeds or eoiiibination, <>. (> you wouldn't have such gallant Leeds-Seaerolt Bus Garage Higgs . To be* so bould or manly, (). — Pelham School. Gee. of my party, I undertake, it elected, to I amba* ad-..- and Taoiseachs. Mi Co-stello. £197,474. Newark.—70 houses Hawton Rd E Cole- ,11 lived t. to uet a job. and not having .n But Bans ha is nn duelling place, \"on readily would li t me pass Walk-, e 196.476. do all m my power to bring about a »i Leeds. 70 houses and 22 houses, Eearn- man £92,615. In I'd among air. ureal number of woikers Where I was bred and bum, O, II I had money handy, O, whin you are .si;.ly intimating thai if the Wrexham.-96 houses at Phosnc snev. settlement of the Irish question based on c Swadlincote. Dwellings at Darklands Rd. before, he knows little ol the ipportuintles Descended from an honest race, lo thrate you to a potheen glass— border coc , y ou will bring Ireland into Tho- Warrington. £103.867 j: ii' House and Belle Isle Harlow and independence and the removal ol the c F. Perks. £95.098 Tl.al's all the trade I've learned, (). Oh. its thin I'd be the dandy, (). . i the war <.unp. read this bc-ik. Bromlfy,—Shop at Market Square E H Milncr. £106.196. imposed border I am also in favour ot which exist nor ol the desire on the pail c Portsmouth. 104 liou-e Bedhainpton of the oii'anised workers to help linn. tvei \ i neiny of Ireland is goniL .oquoti Smith £80.797 Stoke-on-Trent. 61 houses. Wood Farm. Britain giving voluntary and uncon j,yv,Aitj v v yyyy y tj y tj tj t„s tj tjv v tj t.i y tj WJUW V VV V WW U Faulkners, £126,360. its diohoiie t pages at you from now on Bromley. Pickhurst School Herbert Rich- Men R J Addison. £95.548 ditional assistance to a united Ireland to Duinig the pel md ill which lie is finding Portsmouth. 100 hou es. Bedhampton is regarded as a cont iniioii.. (low ol uu nccrmg Union as well as being the secre- i Km this young "Southern Irishman" is ards.... £.S8,476 Stokc-on-Trent.—70 houses. Coseley st enable her to get on hei leet. tins out. toe employers aie not unawar Howe and Bishop £120.897 orgtuiised laboiir and more important still i:i!\ of the Birmingham branch ol the • justiiynig Imperialist policy- Holborn. Oflices at Ely Place .1. Mow Smallt home H Hoskms. £108.720 ol the advantages winch may be gained Lulon. College ol lurther education. Y J Burnley. 153 houses Turf Moor Wunpey. lrom this lack .>1 knowledge nor are the. is how the problem should lx- approached. Connolly A. sociation. An Enniskillen man. j There v. "notiung doing' the anti- lem. £64 000 has been in this country since 1937 and j paitmon League and Hie Mansion House I,.veil. £106.834 £215.409 CONNOLLY ASSOC'N. low to take their advantage They see By reading tins pamphlet t.hey will be in Twickenham. Depot. Cranford Way. is weil known in the Midlands for his act)- Committee have been wasting breath and Portsmouth. Guildhall Gee Wall.ci Newport. —100 hone: Rmgwood Avenue ,11 it a solution to their labour problems a better posit ion to deal with it Walker Tooting i. £59.400. oly in the trade union movement. I paper all these years—as we told them. £864.531 Hawksley Constructions £144.661. and a means to undermine the Made There are a number ol advertisements Fulham. - Boiler House at Fulliam Hos- I A.l genuine anti-partitionists will see Leicester. .>78 houses. Mow inacre Hill J Birmingham. Shops, office New Street North London Branch union, at tlie same time. This is an aspect by mi ons which have large Irish member- pital. 0< Parker £37.727. the red light. Mr. Shechy has .shown (in Lainu. £747.26.). Sir R. McAlpine, £,un which I would like to have seen more ships and it is to be seen that they wel- Mortlake Brev.erv extensions. Cubitts. WEDNESDAYS, 8 p.m. I caricaturei the logic of facts. Leicester. 172 house Thumb'. Lodge .1 Ixworlh (Suffolk). -School Saddler and lull;, dihcussed at the conlerence. come all people engaged in the trades re- Books Received £70,000 The only way to fight partition is to Laing. £223.688 .Sons £111.276 THE OLD EAGLE, However, it must be said in passing that gardless ol nationality Hackney. 67 flats and maisonettes etc Ulster Since 1800" iBBC.i 3 6. • light lor peace, against war. to light Bn Warrington Extensions to Merc. Work Rochdale.—90 dwelling- etc Fiilnge Hill. 251 Royal College Street once an Irishman sees the advantages >1 "Irishmen Make Good Trade Unionists Clapton Common. Direct labour. 'The Red Petticoat" iMacMillan) 12 6 i tish Impel lalisin, not the enemies of Bri- A Monk. £750.000. J Hobson £113.278 N.W.1 being in a trade union, there are lew who i from ;>3 Rosoman Street. E.C.I. 1 - post £213,600 United In Crime" iHeinemanni la -. j tish Imperialism. For the answer Imperial W. Bromwich. -84 houses. Small Street Taunton. 125 houses. Pnorswood E tale. can compare with him in his supiwrt. for Ireet is a pamphlet which every trade Croydon.—Factory works at Thornion Rd May 5—Sex Equality. "Hands That Move Mountains" (Central ism gives to all your jugglmgs and flnag and Gladstone Street Wales £111.813 Hawksley Const ructions. it. the tragedy is unfortunately that so unionist should want to help distribute Charles Price. £80.000 * * * Books). 9d. I ling.s is "You can liave your unity if you Hull. 101 dwellings. Great Field Estate Taunton. 100 houses. Priorswood Estate. May 11—Public Meeting. many of the emigrants have so little Lambeth. 239 dwellings. Hartington Rd J. Lamg. Mr. Coimac Kerr, who wrote the above Legends ol Ireland" (Batsfurd). 15 - j come back into the Union." Sciuton and Co £124.678. May 18—Origin of Partition. knowledge about trade unionism. Rice and Son £561,000. The Fortunes of the Irish Language" Well. Irish history is the rec.oid of tryiiig Birmingham. 160 houses. Ruberv Farm Crewe. — 170 houses. Wi lason Green. It is important that the union or- review, is the chairman ol the Birming- \ Lambeth.—147 dwellings, Caldwell Sheet. May 25— Ireland Partitioned. ham branch of (lie Constructional Engl- iC .1 Fallon). to get, out of that. c.o.c. Wimpey £234.957. Direct labour. £224.676 ganiser. should know the causes of whai Rowley Bros. £320.112. Birmingham.-96 houses. Bristol Road Manchester—300 houses. Reel liflll. Wyth- ALL WELCOME! Islington-76 dwellings, Rothet field Court South C Bryant £145.800. ni! hawe Direct labour. Ooc, Waiker. £170.055. T*»

8 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT May 1955 CONNOLLIT ASSOCIATION PAGE ftpde park, Condon FIVE PUBLIC LECTURES Commemorating JAMES CONNOLLY

"War is ever the enemy of progress. It is only "Shall we not say that as capitalism possible when humanity is stifled, when the has sown poverty, disease and oppres- common interests of the human race are denied. sion among our Irish race, so it will The first blast of the bugles of war is also the see spring up a crop of working- requiem note of human brotherhood. It is but a step and a short step from exulting in the class revolutionists armed with a sufferings of a foreign enemy to contemptuous holy hatred of all its institutions." indifference to the sights and sounds of suffer- — James Connolly, 'The Harp,' April 1910. ing among our own poor in our own streets." JAMKS CONNOIX1 —James Connolly ("Irish Worker," Nov., M, 1911) ALL LECTURES at 8 p.m. MONDAY 9th TUESDAY 10th WEDNES. 11th FRIDAY 13th THURSDAY Six-Counties, A Policy for The Tory Party British Labour Commemoration The Tory the Irish Partitioned and the MEETING in Britain Ireland Irish Question Police State PROMINENT Speaker: Speaker: Speaker: SPEAKERS Speaker : Desmond Greaves Patrick Clancy Eamonn Maclaughlin E. Lyons EASTER MEETINGS WERE CONNOLLY WEEK ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS TAMES CONNOLLY would have liked NOTTINGHAM LARGE AND LIVELY nothing better than to think that he 1 ORE Easter Commemoration meetings were in a position to answer that they was being commemorated by a campaign CITY SQUARE to oust the Tories from tha Government of than ever before were held in Britain could criticise the Connolly Association. Britain. Many a time he toured Britain this year, as new Connolly Association Mr. Eamonn Lyons said the election was for that exact purpose. Here are the meet- 6.30 p.m. branches got into their stride. an opportunity to make the Irish question ings so far arranged: Most strikingly successful were those at an issue in British politics. The "Man- FRIDAY, May 6th: Denmark St., Charing Liverpool (April 10th i. Coventry (April chester Guardian." encouraged by a rene- Cross Road, W.C.1, 8 p.m., Bill Gouiding 17th), Nottingham tApril 24th) and Man- gade Irishman, had boasted that we would and Patrick O'Sullivan. chester (April 24thi. rot be able to get anybody to take an Sunday, May 22 SATURDAY, May 7th Portobello Road, Manchester had three separate com- interest in it. The thing to do was to : E. Lyons, E. MacLaughlin; North End memorations this year, instead of the one attend the political meetings of all parties Road, Fulham, Desmond Greaves, united ceremony which the Connolly Asso- and to pressurize the candidates into tak- Cathal MacLiam. ciation urged. ing a stand he did not mean subject them SUNDAY, May 8th: Hyde Park, 3.30 p.m., MEETINGS The Manchester Martyr's Committee to physical violence, but to impress the Eamonn MacLaughlin, Bill Goulding, commemoration had obviously suffered importance of the subject on their minds. Desmond Greaves. from the crushing blow to the committee's Some British cities had up to eight per WEDNESDAY, May 11th: Arlington Road, prestige last November, when hoodlums cent, of the voters Irish. It was enough to BIRMINGHAM Camden Town, N.W.I, North London from London desecrated the cemetery and tip many a marginal seat. Irishmen did Meeting, Eamonn Lyons, Desmond a wreath was torn to pieces on the conse- not vote Conservative: but if the Labour Greaves, Larry Bowes. BULL RING crated ground. It is improbable that the Party wanted their votes they must give SATURDAY, May 14th: Poster parade be- committee will ever again occupy the place them something to bring them out ol their ginning with meeting Prince of Wales, it formerly held in Manchester Irish, houses. He trusted that they would. 3.30 p.m. Harrow Road, 3.30 p.m. and proceeding affairs. Mr. Eamonn MacLaughlin, in London, to Star Street, Edgware Road (near made a classic speech explaining how Ire- and Connolly Association held its own well- Marble Arch) for meeting 4.30 p.m. land could be rich and prosperous if attended ceremony in the morning. Fifty Speakers: Patrick Clancy, Desmond united. Mr. O'Sullivan spoke at Coventry 6.30 p.m. people marched with the Martyrs Commit- Greaves, Eamonn Lyons, Eamonn Mac- and Northampton, and Mr. Cathal Mac- tee in the afternoon, and were joined by Laughlin and others. Liam at Luton and St. Albans. more at the cemetery. Then the Gaelic SUNDAY, May 15th: Hyde Park, 3.30 p.m. SUNDAY, MAY 22 League held an independent ceremony Mr. MacLaughlin. Mr. Kilcommins and E. Lyons, E. MacLaughlin, Larry Bowes next day, which was well attended. Dr. O'Shea addressed an enthusiastic and others. For Speakers see Local Commenting on the splits m Manches- meeting in the City Square of Hudders- ter, Mr. Patrick Kilroy. secretary of the lield. Yorkshire, famous for its Gaelic- OUR SUPPORTERS ARE URGED TO Announcements Connolly Association, said: "It is tragic speaking colony. ATTEND IN FORCE! that there should be this disunity. But it . is not of our making. Last November we put everything we had into making the | commemoration a success, and the meet- MR. JOSEPH DEIGHAN'S ORATION AT MANCHESTER ing was the biggest for years. We were then forced to witness the most : >rdid scene that ever disgraced a Nationalist THE Easter Rising of 1916 was an against each other in a selves for Ireland How shall we honour gathering. What can we do? II is not act of defiance against British in the great war of 1914-18. l hem? we who are splitting the Irish and sow.ng It was against this background that In 1916 it was the weak truth against Imperialism, when all that was best poison among them.'' Irish men and women had to make their the strong lie. To-day a generation after, and noblest in the Irish people burned But the big crowds attended the Con- decision m 1910 The question they had to the strong lie ol British Imperialism has nolly Association meetings in Plait Fields brightly in a world darkened by answer was not the simple one ot "Would become more and more exposed. which proved the largest and liveliest yet. imperialist war. they light for Ireland or would they sup- The struggle for national independence Speaking in Birmingham on April 24th. We arc rightly and justly proud of ' 191G.' port British Imperialism?'' We should not by India, Egypt, Malaya, Kenya, West Mr. Desmond Greaves said that every It is rot surprising that we have idealised forget that many fine and brave Irishmen Africa, and other countries bears witness hawker of fish or apples belonged to an the men and women who made this sacri- fell in the Flanders fields in the belief that of that fact. they were lighting Ireland's cause and tor organisation. How long were the Irish to fice More especially have we idealised the Ireland is still part occupied by British the rights of small nations. be the only section unable to defend its leaders of the rebellion, James Connolly troops. What is the way forward to interests? and Padraig Pearse. Through the years we No. The question, to be answered was, national freedom for our country? Many Without organisation not a single aim have come to elevate them above the rank "Could they fight for Ireland and Bri- and varied are the plans put forward to of the Irish in Britain could be realised. of ordinary mortals and with Wolfe Tone, tish Imperialism at the sama time?" achieve our independence. We suggest He urged his hearers to join the Connolly thc.'hrvc become for us the symbol and In tins Pearse and Connolly could not there is one way by which they can all be Association, adding that lies were being the ideal of the Irish Republic. be tooled, because they understood the evil tested for truth. The question must be .spread about it. solely because it. was the It is good that this should be so, because and corrupt ways of British Imperialism, clearly and urgently put to the Irish of to- only organisation which intended to put it answers a need in the national lite of and understanding, they hated it with a day. It is the question that was asked in its policy into practice, and whose policy our people. holy hatred. James Connolly, who m his 1916. "Can you fight for Irish Freedom would work. But ideals in themselves are not. suffi- day knew better than any other the nature and support British Imperialism at the He had been shocked when he wa.s told cient. We Irish to-day have our decisions of Imperialism, had come to the unalter- samo time?" how some local people had gone to the to make and having made them to put able conviction that, a stand must be made Because British Imperialism is still the priests of a Birmingham church and told them into practice as did the men of 1916. against it m Ireland. enemy of Ireland, all true republicans will them completely untrue things about, the In the years previous to the rebellion of Day m, day out, he worked furiously, oppose it without reservations. Association. He hoped they honestly be- Faster week, the Irish Labour movement agitating, challenging and pushing the Unlike Connolly, who had no hope what- lieved those things; but the effect was no inspired by Connolly, had worked strenu- movement to action. ever of seeing the fall of British Imperial- better than if they did not. Anybody who ously tor an agreement that m the event Action came and at the end ol Faster ism in his lifetime, we are fortunate to Joined the Association would quickly sec of a world war between the Im)>erialist Week the people of Dublin saw the burnt- live in a time when the forces to defeat it that it was an independent organisation powers, each Labour movement would out shell ol the General Post Office, the are strong enough to c'o so. l et us work with its own officers and constitution, oppose its own Government. twisted tram rails and the bullet scarred hard to gather those forces among the democratic and self-governing This w;ls agreed and decided on in the walls of O'Connell Street Irish in Britain Let. us strive to unite But he would not lower himself to ans- town of Ba-sle m Switzerland, tint the Im- Imperialism wrecked the citv lather all those who will oppose the enemy of wer some of the critics. He would rather perialists were too strong, too wit and too than give the people freedom Ireland British Imperialism In this way ask them—what did you ever do for the wary The working peoples ,->f Europe, We are gathered together here to day we shall best honour Ihe men and women cause of Irish independence? When they blinded by false propaganda were thrown to honour the men who sacrificed them- of 1916