NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IRELAND
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Surne?"intendent' s on: ce, Q Division ,..r T 'JJ" ' t~ ''10th July t 5 . 19
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}u1 0VE1~J1]' N'rS OF DUBLI J EXT ~M I s ~rs .
I beg to report . t hat en the 29th Inst . Jk ~~ ~ the undenrentioned extremists were observed ~ - moving about and associating with each ether as fellows : - Vv' i t h 1,homas J . Cl arke , 75 Parnell St. J . I\/lcGarry far ten minute's between l & 2
P· m. J&hn o · ~LQ ahGny and James 1\/Iurray, fer t wenty minutes between 7 & 8 p. m. William O' Leary Curtis , Jaxnes J . Buggy , Art ht~ uriff ith, M. Mullen, and J . McGuinness ~~. t0gether for an h Superi nt endent . ·: . ~ he Chief Cammr . Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives PRICE ONE PENNY. " The great only appear great because we are on our knees : let us rise.'' Vol. 1., No. 10. DUBLIN, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1915. Weekly. ROSSA FUNERAL- SEE PAGE EIOHT assaulted James Curtin on board the liner killed in Flanders. She was receiving a pension Philadelphia in the Canada Dock. of £1 6s. 8d. a week. "Curtin said that as he lay in his bunk Sullivan "The: Judge bound over the prisoner, and Notes on the Front entered and struck him and the others all came ordered that he should be handed over to a in and assaulted him, calling him a "scab.'' military escort, remarking1 that- " I hope," he A few weeks ago a meeting was held in Dempsey also said that anyone who had the added, "that you will make good nse of thi Beresford Place, Dublin, to oppose the Union Jack displayed on his arm ought to opportunity and by your military service wipe National Reaistration Act. At that meeting have the arm cut off. out this stain on your character." re P''inted out that the Act was in reality "The five men admitted calling Curtin names Shortly after the Battle of the 11arne we \Vere Conscription in its pecularily English form, and but denied striking him." confidently assured that the British soldit.:rs had went on to explain our idea of the manner in Brought up after the remand the case was established a ''moral supremacy" over the Ger which Conscription would be applied to disposed of as follows : nuns. If the policy of f ustice Low, that o Ireland. '·The five firemen who were before the sending bigamists to the front ins ~ ead of to ja il We said that there would not be in Ireland I .iverpool Stipendiary, on Thursday, on a is pursued by many other judges, and we haH any app ~ ication of Conscription of an immediate charrre of doing gricvious bodily harm to good reason to be1icve that it is, there will soC\ simultaneous general nature; that the govern another fireman named Curtin, on the s.s. grow up queer opinion!:! about the " moral ment would apply it piecemeal, put ing one Philadelphia, on the ground that he was a "scab supremacy of the British Army. -section of the country under its power afcer ti r t> m1.n" and who were rem: derl for inquiries But 1.ote the ( is1 ~rity be een the entenc . another, an ~o ' · orkin ~r it a. to break up tl1c to be made in regard to their nationality (sOme:! It reveals the opinions of the judge a. to the resistance of the nation. of them having, it wa::; alleged, expressed anti We also expressed our belief that the things he con~iders the most sacred. F or British sentimt.:nts) were r~gain brought before abusing the British Empire-which suffered ~overnrnent would apply it in the least rebel, or the 'ourt yesterday. It was stated by a police most slave districts first, and after they had nothing from the abuse-a sente ce of so day·~ officer that they wcre,apparently all natives of hard labour. For ruining a dercnt woman the been dealt with would proceed cautiously to 1 Ireland who had i>ccomc, ' naturalised citizens sentence is a light rebuke, and sent to join extend it to scattered po• Lions of districts in of America" for the purpose of the navigation which the rebel portion of the community, and decent men in the trenches. What crime did laws. the soldiers in the trenche commit that they rebel sentiments, were strong. "The Stipendiary said it seemed to have been On Saturday, July 24, the government kindly should be compelled to live with such a a very brutal assault. He did not wi ·h to be scoundrel? furnished th Irish people with a comp1cte prejudiced by outside matters, but he was bound verification o our forecasts. Here is an extract Let us change the subject. H ere is an awful to take a serious view of the case. production from America-an nlphabet about from the .Irish Ti11~ts. " ullivan, Yelly and Dempsey '"ere each NATIONAL REGISTRATION ACT. the services the boys and girls of the upper sentenced to 5 ' days' irnprisonment with hard classes are rendering in the war : APPLlCATION TO ULSTER AHEAS. laiJuur · and the other two to 28 days' imprison The following notice appears in the Dub!t'1t ment with hard labour." . \.ggie's asking alms for the Artillery. Gazette, last night :- Viewed in itself there is nothing strange in Belinda's binding belly·bands for Belgians. " \Ve, Iver Churchill, Baron \Vimborne, this case. 'Vhen persons within British waters Clara's counting coughdrops for Cossacks. Lord Lieutenant-(;eneral and General Governor proceed to refer in such a manner to the British Diana's denting dumdums for D1agoons. of Ireland, in pursuance of the powers conferred Empire and its supporters, they must be prepared Effie's etching emblems for the Ensigns. on Us by Section 1 5 of the National Registra· take what is coming to them in the way of Fannie's fetch 'ng fish-ball for th F ren hies. tion Act, 1915, 5 and 6 Geo. Y., c. 6o, do punishrnent. But here is an e.· tract from Gaby's gargling goldfish for tht: (~ermans. hereby order that section one of the said Act another English jingo paper which would seem 'attic's 'itching 'orsc:s for the H in rJ ish. shall apply to the following areas in Ireland, to indicate that for the period of the war men Iona's ironing icebags for the Irish. namely, the County Borough of Belfast, the serving in the military forces are to be allowed Jennie's joinin•T jew's harps for the Japs. County Borough of Londonderry, the County to abolish any one of the ten commandments, Katy's killing Yitcheners for the Kaiser. of Antrim and the County of Down. and secure an acquittal if they will cnly Lizzie's laundering lingerie for J ncers. Given under Our hand at His :Majesty's volunteer for the trenches. l'vfary's making moonshine for the Monks. 'astle of Dublin, this 2oth day of July, 1915." Nellie's 'nitting nothing for the uns. \VDIHOR. E. Olive's opening oysters for the Old Guard. Surely wisdom is justified of her children! "SOLDIER BIGAMIST. Prunella's painting pretzels in Pr remysl. Never was a prophecy more rapidly fulfilled in "JUDGE'S LENIENCY AND SOUND Quola's qudling quinzy in the Queen's Own. the political world. Here we have the Act ADVICE. Rachel's rolling Rameses' for Russians. applied sectionally and the most slave portion "Mr. Justice Low at the Manchester Assizes Sister usie's sewing shirts for S ldier ·. of Ireland chosen-just as we predicted. gave his decise in the case in which \Villiam Tillie's toughening tripe for two tight Teutons. Sometimes the newspaptrs make queer Francis Owen (35), a labourer, was charged with Ulma's unwrapping union suits fc r Uhlans. reading, nowadays. \V e here reprint some bigamy on April 2oth at Preston, when he Viola's vapourising vodka in the Vosges. )aragraphs that seems to indicate a very topsy married a widow named Agnes Backhouse, his 'Vilhelmina's wishing warts on \ 'ilhelm. turvy conception of morals, and of the just wife, Katherine, whom he married at Liverpool ... ~ anthippe's . ·haling xylophones fur .... ~mas. punishment for crime. The first is from a on August 6th, 1906, being still alive. Yenny's yielding yeast cakes for the Yiddish. Liverpool paper : "The prisoner was · three times wounded Zuzie zaid zhe L.ent zome wap for ze Zuaves. '' UNION JACK TATTOO ~lARK. duriug the South African \Var, and on the out· If the readers can ~tand that they can stand "In order that inquiries into their nationality break of the present hostilities he re-enlisted in anything. n1ight be made, the Liverpool Stipendiary the 3rd Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and The Railway Rwit w, after a Httle gratuitous .remanded five men, John ullivan, Thomas was again wounded. Recovering, he was sent slurs at ourselvts and our motto, "An injury Kelly, :\[ichael Dempsey, Josep Hegarty and to the depot a.t Preston, where he met Mrs. to one is the concern of all," prints the follow .Michael Gibbons, who were charged with having . Backhouse, whose husband, a soldier, had been ing item- Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives 2 THE WORKERS' REPUBLIC. "It may be news to the Irish members of WATERMARKS OF TRADE UNIONISM the National Union of Railwaymen that the is proven by the fa~t that the shops worked on Dublin Corporation have secured a loa.n of HIOH AND LOW for five weeks as. If no dispute existed. And about £3s,ooo from their Union, so we may the Tra~sport Umon felt justified in regarding now be considered to have some little stake Acting up to the original declaration "that the con~muanc~ of such a struggle as a usele~s in the country." no . member of the Irish Transport Workers' expenditure of 1ts funds, and with the unanimous Um~:m would serve an employer having a assent of the men concerned sought an honour The N. U.R. members should feel good sect1~m of ~orkers engaged in a Trade dispute" ab_le settlement. Suppose the members of the· when they read that. In the recent strike in :-t~lS Un_wn has not alone materially aided l!lsh Tr~nsport Workers' Union were to recon the shops, now successfully concluded, the m mcreasmg the wages and improving the st_der thetr Society's position, and resigning the Irish Transport and General \Yorkers' Union conditions of most Trades of the towns and high watermark of Trade Unionism observed up spent over £6oo in strike pay. We could not cities where its branches operate, but in so to now, ~nd adopting the low standard set up invest £ 35,ooo in Corporation stock, but we doing it has earned for itself the fiendish hate b~ the anstocrats of Labour, the pioneers of the could and did pay strike pay to a number of of the employers-the unceasing opposition s~tlled Trades declare their willingness to work N.U.R. members-whose own Union refu:;ed misrepresentation -and filthy abuse of the With anybody so long as their own peculiar to pay it, although their members stood to Capitalist Press. To which I am painfully work was _not t~espassed on.- \Vould not such benefit by the successful issue of the fight. compelled to add the unnatural and unfeeling a d~clar~twn disarm bali of the opposition to The moral is that there are two kinds of opposition of many-of the skilled trades thetr Unton and its members? And would it Union. The one that invests its money in Irish referred to above- who while partaking freely nhot e~coura~e honest employers to recognise Corporation Stock and refuses to spend a penny of the advantadges and benefits secured by the t e pnor cla~m of the man with the smallest in lifting its Irish members from the most voluntary co-operation of the Irish Transport wage to an mcrease, and result in a decided wretchedly paid slavery. Union- have not hesitated to range themselves advantage as far as the Transport Union and its And the other Union that refuses to invest by the side of its top hat assailants in the vain members ~re conce~ned. For after all there is its money in Corporation Stock, but does invest hope of appearing respectable. ~o great .dtfferen.ce m working with a scab who it in fighting to bring better conditions and "The plea of 'an injury to one is the con IS. replaci?g a sktlled man on strike, and working happier homes for the members who pay into cern of all' is but a theory '' declares the organ ~vtth .a skalle~ man who descended from his ow'n it. of the N. U. R. and surely that is so in the case ~magmary hei~hts to scab on the labourer when You pay your money, and you take your of every Union but the Irish Transport r etas on stnke seeking as a living wage a sum choice ! \Vor~ers' ~nion, fo~ that. body has given it ,~tt ~ more than half the wages paid to the \Ve trust that every member of the fighting practical mterpretatwn smce its inception. s~l~ed scabber." Of the two the j)fofessional Union will be in their place in the ranks on For five weeks past the members of the sea Is the .most honest, if there be any honesty Sunday at the funeral in honour of O'Donovan Transport Union in the Employ of the Midland amongst th1eves. W. P. P. Rossa. Great \Vestern Railway and the Dublin South Although a little late, we reprint the fine Eastern Railway witheld their labour as a DOCK AND RIVERSIDE LABOUR rev~ew of our book which appeared in Tile result of the refusal on the part of the Com. [Board of Trade Labour Caz~tte for I une J Herald (late the Daily IIerald) some time ago. panics named to consider their application for Dock Labourers t' d · · The book is having a good sale in the most an advance of wages owing to the increased . con mue very fully em- 1D and at Li vcrpool. Elsewhere unexpected quarters, and no visitor to Dublin cost of living-although both Companies had pl_o~ed Lond~n Witd the exception of certain ports on the easf should go home without it. It can be got at 3 1 already given recognition to the fact in the an north-east co as t s an d m· 1reland emiJloy- Eden Quay: case of the Fitters, Boiler-makers, Smiths and ment was good h ' 11 h · on t e whole, and showed little A. E.' " neighbour, James Connolly, has others whose application they rejected-about c ange on the previous month. published a characteristic little book, "The seven members of the Machinist's Society and ANo llusu PoRT . Re-Conquest of Ireland" (Dublin : Liberty thirteen members of the N. U. R. unsupported ScoTT~Sil Hall, 6d.). Incidentally he emphasises a by their Trades Uniom joined in the strike. ~mployment lmprovt!d at Ghsgow and was. g 0 d dbalso at the Ayrshire ports. It wa. good great neglected side of Irish history, in regard A~d while the dispute la!=ted all alike were paid .Aanb detter than a month ago at Uundce and to which he is a specialist. He shows briefly stnke pay out of the funds of the Transport er cen r l • · 1 d · !.mp oyment w, s only moderatt! what the old Gaelic culture and social sys Union, which Union by the way has not lent 1 :nitd , ocl(f _Iabour~rs at Belfast: it i.nproved tem were, the fcar;;ome way in which they £ 35,ooo to the Dublin Corporation at a good v. as atr at Cork d · were ravaged and all but ruined; how the rate of interest as has the N. U. R. but has Waterf d . ' ~n contmued slack at ur and fatr at Luncrick. "Conquest" affected the Catholic natives and spent its money in improving the labourina the Protestant settlers-his second chapter is C}as_s condition in Ir~bnd than any Societ~ DocK Wo~na:Rs, &c., Pn:sT :-;, a grim and striking contribution to the smularly engaged lnlf~bfrch application was put forward on b t h a o the dock · k > • "or ers cm1 lo\·cd by tht! " ·lster'' question-hO\\' far the " Conquest" The appeal made to the "skill>!d workers" l reston Corl)Oratt · f .; has been undone; the special urhan, rural, to refrain from d~ing the: work formerly done of 1 s _on or an advance in wages feminist, and education problems, and the by the men on ~tnke sounds like an insult to . · · lp~r dfay, Which was subsequc:ntly modified t 0 .1. c aun or a war b f · vast possibilities of La hour and Co-operation. any genuine Trade U n1on!sts. More especially Aft, . ' ~ . on us o varymg amounts. Ireland's story in rnany degrees worse than w~1en w~ remember the lllconccaled contempt ~t· er some n~gotirttiClns, on the 7th June an OJI er was made o b I If that of Belgium ; for several centuries it has wtth wh1ch many of these "aristocrats of labour=' h · . n t la of the Corporation been a ghastly tale of tyranny and arrested con~en1p~ate the ordinary worker. To ask such s tpowncrs, lltnber importers and enerai development. She has, however, escaped an md1v1dual to do a labourer's work would traders of the port to the Nat'l· I U ~ f l) oc k I ... a b ourers of a b ona nwn o some of the evil growths of modern Europe, result one would expect in an indicrnant refusal hour for da w k war ?nus of ~d. per and-amidst sundry stagnant and dreary and a dignified withdraw.ll from thbe shop. .Fo; casual lab y or only, for tlmber men and phases and the curse of alien officialdom surely the creature who deems it bene.1th his , • ourers, and of rs I 6d d Per ,veek , accor d'mg to e · ' s. ., an 2s. there are fine spirits and factors in the land dignity to be associated with a labourer ought men, this latt b ar~ungs, to permanent to-day. The re-birth of a di5tinctivc realis1. not to descend to the low depths of scabbing members of t~r o~us bea~g also offered to tion would be a noble triumph. ''A. E." and on the labourer. Yet the fact remains that U mon.· e N atwnal Satlors and Firemen's Connolly are two exceptional individualities while the dispute continued all the skilled men The men rejected th' rr amongst those who are working in divers found employment The work went on, and the Dock 1 b , 15 .ouer, and members of ways towards that frcitful result. could n~t go on unless some one performed . h ~a. ourer s Umon ceased work deal earners lvtng 1 ad ' that portiOn formerly done by the men on strike. July. A furth are . Y ~topped on the 3rd \Vho scabbed? The Companies did not import . d b er modaficat10n of their demands BACHELORS' WALK SHOOTING. was ma e y the men d . . blacklegs to do the work. 'Vho arc the double agreed to , an It was ul tt mate Iy resume work u l l . f h dyed scabs? The men who scabbed on the employers' of[l f h pon t 1e ia~ts o t e 0 MEMORIAL TABLET ON VIE\V. men on strike! The men who scabbed on the being submitt:r t e 7th ~ une, the differences blackl~gs whose professional work is scabbing. the Ch' f I d d ~o an arbitrator appointed by Visitors to Headquarters Irish Volunteers, \Ve will get the names of the creatures who 1\{ te n ustrJal Commisioncr. r. Lynden Macass K C l b. 2 Dawson Street~ will be given an opportunity got the advance themselves -whose wage is appointed · d h' ' ey, · ., t 1e ar ttrator of viewing the above which is now ready for d_ouble that of the men on strike, and who then the War b ISSUe IS award On Sth july, fixing 1aying. · aade? t_he Company to fight the labourers' employers onus at the rates as offc::rcd by the ap phcat10n. -r alterations. on 7th June, with some slight The .Federation of Trades in Dublin passed a 0 resolution at the commencement of the strike AMALGAMATED AND GENERAL UN ION N.J. Byrne's T~:t~~. the exact. terms. of which I do not know, but i am creditably mforme~ that while binding its SOCI ETI ES OF CAI(PE TERS AND JOINERS. 39 AUNG I E~ STREET, Members of ab S . . membe.rs to do o~ly the1r own work, it expressed attend at the (Opposite Jacob's), on their behalf Its willingness to work w th H~l~e3Socrtte:;G-,lare requess~ed t~ 1 at 12 o' 1 k ' r. ou«..:ester tree , "anybody," and that some of its members failed of the lat~ 0 , P· ') to tak.e part in the Funeral FO~ I ~IS H ~OLL & PLUG. to act up to the terms of even such a resolution 0 n Ros~a. ~lf.8il.~'#l BRESLr~, Dist. Sec. Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives I I I I' THE WORKERSJ REPUBLIC. 3 Mr. Lawler asked that the trades should keep KEEP IN THE OPEN AIR. Dublin Trades Council together, and suggested that they meet in Capel Street. 1\fr. Partridge expressed the hope that every YOU CAN'T DO BETTER. The fortnightly meeting of the Dublin Trades Irish man in Dublin and its vicinity would Council was held on Monday evening, Mr. T. attend, and advocated the closing of the public COME TO THE SPORTS IN houses. Farren, President, in the Chair. Also present : CR.OYDON PARK, FAIRVIEW• i\fessrs. Hol1and and Simmons disagreed with .Messrs. Edward Lyons, Brass Founders and Owing to the very inclement weather it was Gasfittcrs; R. Carroll, T.C., Brick and Stone the suggestion on the ground that it would cause great inconvenience to the travelling impossible to carry out the very interesting Pro Layers; John Lawlor, Cab and Car Owners; public. gramme of Sports arranged for the Park on last . Simmons, Carpenters (Amal) · Matthew Sunday, and it was decided to leave the events Mr. T. :VIurphy suggested Stephen's Green as over to a later date. To make up for the dis Callanan, Central Ironmouldcrs; M. Culliton, the rallying point of the various Trades. ·Carpenters (Gen. Union) ; T. Murphy, Carpet appointment thus occasioned a splendid Pro 1-Ir. Connolly supported the suggestion, which Planners ; Fran cis Farrell, Coachmakers ; A. gra~me has been arranged for the August Bank: was adopted. Kavanagh, P. Bowes, J. Bermingham, Corpor Hohday, and patrons of the Park will be amply ation Labourers ; C. \Voodhead, Electricians; The Chairman urged all present to do their comp~nsated for any drawbacks they may have . Bowman, Engineers ; B. Drumm, Farriers ; utmost in making the procession worthy of the expenenced heretofore. The principal item on Joseph McGrath, Irish Clerks' Union; J. man and creditable to the nation . the Programme for next Monday is the Great Ladies' Hurling Match for a valuable set of .Metcalfe, \V. P. Partridge, T.C., T. .Foran, It was decided to send a subscription to the trophies. The competing Teams are Drum P.L.G., James Connolly, Irish Transport Committee having charge of affairs in connection condra Ladies' Hurling Team and the far-famed \Vorker ; James Courteney, Marble Polishers j with the procession. J. Lennon, Mineral Water Operative; J. Kelly, Croke Ladies' Hurling Team. National Union Assurance Agents; Jos. Farrell, SOUTH WALES' MINERS' STRIKE. The mention of these two Teams is sufficient to guarantee a grand match and provide a good M. Smith, Painters (Amal.); F. Davidson, Mr. Connolly said that the result of the South "forty minutes'" .sport. The trophies for the Dyers and Cleaners; \V. Shanks, Packing Case \Vales Miners' trike was another signal proof match-(a Beauttful Set of Brooches)-will no andllox Makers; Peter Macken, John Berming of the strengths and invincibility of Labour doubt make t~e mate~ much more interesting ham Painters, Metropolitan; D. Holland, when united. Here we had the greatest and 1 than the ordmary fnendly one, and it only 11. A. Brady, Printers (Typo.); A. Doyle, strongest government that these countries had addlers; G. Paisley, Sawyers; P. D. Bolger, needs a fine day to make this the Event of the ever seen in modern times-a government Year. laters ; \V. J. lvi urphy, Smiths, (\Vhite); J. vested with powers that a few years ago no one There will be Races for Boys and Girls under Flanagan, P. Carey, Stationery Engine nvers; present would ever have dreamt would be Twelve Years of age, also for Boys and Girls 'Thomas Farren, Stonecuners; John Farren, vested in a modern British Government. 'Ve over Twelve and under Seventeen. heet Metal Workers: John Duffy, Iron h~~ a Coalition Cabinet of all the virtues; a Great Amusement is to be expected in the ])res,crs; J. F. O'Nt:ill, Irish Grocers' and rmlltary commander with almost unlimited Siamese Race, and of course the Sack Race will Purveyors' Ac;sist. nts Union· \Vinston, National power, and a civil population that had become be the "thing." League Blind; Jeremiah Yer.nedy, Smiths hardened to the sight of the exercise of arbitrary There will also be a Potato Race (distance (United) ; authority by that power; we had an army and Twenty Yards, with Nine Potatoes). ' n,lvy of unprecedented size and efficiency, and ?.Iessrs. L:twler and .Farren (Represent1tives The w\lrkshops, as in their opinion such 1-Iernber_s of the LT. W.U. and I. C. Army, thr~.:e the process of production it was found that boys were not gi ~n full facilitit's to learn their ~o co~stltute a team. Also a Composite Race, they were more powerful than all the mighty trade and rarc!y turned out good workmen. m "' htch the competitors will walk a lap, run a civil and military forces arrayed against them. The hoard had also agreed to give its labourers lap, and cycle a lap. \Vhat a lesson was this for Labour l It showed co~l at cost price. -, Th~re wi~l also be a Sixty YarJs Slow Bicycle The President said the report proved the that I ,abour already possessed the power, all Race m whtch the last man home wins, and to utility of having representatives on such public that it needed was the united will to exercise it. put the climax on it there will be a Married But we had been cursed with leaders without \Vomen's Race; and, judging by the l&en com bod;es. faith their own lass, without v1sion, without in petition in the Married Women's R~ce recently Mr. Partridge complained of the atternpt by moral . courage- Leaders who were always held, there is going to be "doin's " in this J\Ir. \Vatson, of the Great Southern and Western preachmg about our weakness instead of teach department. · Railway, to commandeer the machinery of the ing us to rely upon our strength. Had we had Splendid Prizes given in all the Races. ]3olton 'treet Technical Schools for the manu the right kind of leaders this war would never The hungry and thirsty can obtain Refresh facture of war munitions, while l\1r. \Vatson's have taken place. lf the 'vorking class soldters ments on the Grounds at .\lost Reasonable own machinery was lying idle all night, and not of Europe had but had the moral courage to Terms, and it only requires a fine day to have a .all of it was worked on munitions in the day say to the diplomats that they would not march bumper attendance. time. against their brothers across the frontiers but Look out for the Great Tug-o'-\Var Contests Mr. J. Murphy was astonished to hear of if they were going to fight they would r~thcr on the 8th August. such an application, and thought the Education fight against their enemies at home than against ..:\11 the Star Teams are coming. Committe were justified in refusing. In his their brothers abroad, there would have been opinion the boys in the school might be taught no war, and millions of homes that were now desolated would be happy (applause). to do this work. Mr. Connolly said there was more in the The Chairman said that it would be a pity to rnatter than that sua-gested by the la t speaker. sp?il sue~ a magnificent speech by adding any- ... MINERAL WATERS The machines were originally acquired for edu thtng to 1t. He took that as the opinion of the The \Vorkingman s Beverage. cational purposes, and would be spoiled by the Delegates. application to such work as it was now sug The meeting then adjourned. gested to p~t them, and the citizens sh~uld not submit to 1t. He proposed a resolutton pro testing against the granting of such machinery for the munitions of war. They should be only DUBLIN UNITED TRADES CLUB, DOLPHIN SAUCE employed in teaching the arts of Peace. CAPEL STR.EET. The \Vorkingman's Relish. Mr. Macken seconded the resolution, which he said would strengthen the Technical Educa tion Committee in its refusal to grant the Factory--66 . C. ROAD, and 31 LOWER Half Yearly Meeting of Members will be held n1achines, and suggested that copies be sent to CLANBRASSIL STREET. 'PHONE 2658. the Committee and the Department. on this (Friday) evening, 30th inst. The resolution was passed unanimously. CHAIR 9 p.m. NOTICE TO NEWSAGENTS. Mr. Macken referred to the forthcoming T H Is I s I :\I p 0 R T A N T. Any Agent not receiving their proper supply funeral proce sion of O'Donovan Rossa, which of this paper, please communicate with : was now definitely known would leave ~he City J. O'BRIEN, Hall on Sunday next at two o'clock, and urged Head Office, Liberty Hall, Beresford Place • .all working people to· attend. Secretary. 'Phones: 3421 and 4199. Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives THE WORKERS' REPUBLIC. 4 ~------Empire at a time whent hat Empire was at peace fierce and malevolent hatred. They were £1\114011£. with all the world. The mere conception of ac~used of conspiracy to destroy religion, a SltO\JLD 8E IIi such a struggle, the stark naked fact that such pnest r~fused to solemnise the marriage of a project was ever even mooted, in itself stamps Rossa himself, alleging that he was outside the THB RE· ONQUEST OF IRELAND. as heroes all who cherished and suffered for it. pale of t~e Church, every conceivable wicked-. BY JAMES CoNNOLLY. Grand indeed must have been the souls, magni ness ~as Imputed them, . they were said to be (Author of "LABOUR IN IRISH HISTORY"). ficent must have been the courage, splendid the enemi~S of the family, of society, of morals. Ag~mst such enemies they held their own The book is indispensable to all who idealism of the men and women who with the and .tf the! failed to emancipate their country wish to understand the many forces making awful horror of the famine of Black '4 7, and for a regenerated Ireland. It deals with: inglorious '48, still in their minds were yet or wm for lt a place amongst the nations of the The Conquest of Ireland, Ulster and the capable of rising to the spiritual level of chal ~arth, the~ at least succeeded in establishing Conquest, Dublin in the Twentieth Century, lenging the power of England in 1865 or 1867. ~n the mmd of the world the faci of the Labour in Dublin, Belfast and its Problems. There were giants in those days! Are we mdependent existence of Ireland. Their Woman, Schools and Scholars of Erin, Labour greatest. enemies were those of their own race. and Co-operation in Ireland, Re-Conquest, pigmies in these ? The Appendix contains : Mr. George Russell's These men realised that no nation is con- They faded ' but 1·t was a 1atlurer · more glonou. u Letter to the Masters of Dublin," and an quered until its mind is conquered, until it than. many a victo ry. B ut 1ts . glory consisted exhaustive quotation from the "Report . of accepts defeat. No nation capable of, however m the fact t?at against all odds, and in spite of the Inquiry into the Housing of the W orkmg futilely and impotently, denying with arms in the calculatlOns of the t.rimmers and wiseacres Classes of Dublin.'' the hamls of even a few of its sons that it is there were proven to be in Ireland thousand conquered and submerged in its conqueror, can of. men a~d women who were prepared to affirm Wholesale Agents: Messrs. EASON & SONS, be considered as having lost its existence. In With. thetr lives that Ireland was a nation with or Direct from LIBERTY HALL. Price 6d. the present European hell-broth the diplomats, an _mdependent destiny of its own. Neither writers and speakers of the world freely discuss ternfied nor corrupted the Fenians redeemed 111£ vi 1\KEI\S' 1\EP\JBLI(. the chances of re-establishing many nations long the ~onour of their nation, and we of the EDITED BY JAMES CoNNOLLY. subdued and banished from the roll of nations I workmg class are proud to remember that those but in no one of these discussions does the heroes were of our own class The" Workers' Republic" will be published name of Ireland figure. Because Ireland has When we honour Rossa ~e honour in him weekly, price one penny, and may be had surrendered its separate national identity the fearless representative · of a great movement of all respectable news-agents. ASK FOR Ireland has become a mere geographical ex -a movement that accomplished great things. IT AND SEE THAT YOU OET IT. pression. To the world Ireland speaks through We honour the latest of those who in da s All communications relating to matter for its elected representatives, through its press, of darkness pledg d th · . . Y publication should be addressed to the Editor; . e etr fatth to an Irtsh through its great organs of public opinion, and all buisness matter to the Manager. Republic, and kept that faith unsutlied to All communications intended for public- so speaking has announced itself a loyal pro- the last. ation must be delivered here on Tuesday vince of the British Empire. We on .our part affirm that we march· behind morning. This rule will be strictly adhered to. The sons of Ireland who are in arms are in the remams because we are prepared to fight Subscription 6/6 per year. Six months arms for England, the blood of Ireland that for the same ~deas. And we shall be all the 3/3· Payable in advance. flows in torrents everY. day flows for England, more nerved for fight when we remember that Office, LIBERTY HALL, DUBLIN. the Irish men who die fighting like heroes and the banner of Fenianism was upheld by the demi-gods die fighting for England. Ireland stalwart hands of the Irish W k. Cl "An injury to one is the etmtern of all." ot th t d . or mg ass knows them not, can never number them a ay, as the mthtant organisation of amongst her possessions, can never. tell the tale UBLIN, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1915. th_e san~e class to-day is the only body that of their sufferings and exploits as sufferings and ~uhout reservation unhesitatingly announce THE MAN AND THE CAUSE 1 exploits for Her. as . loyalty to the r~pu b hcan. pnnciple . of And yet Ireland dare not blame them ! The nattonal freedom for which th F . ood o ~ · Sunday, August First, we propose to pay \V h e en1ans st . least of these, our brothers, would hav~ fought e are ere because this is our place 1 public homage in Dublin to the remains and for Ireland if those who spoke in Ireland·s memory of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. It is name had but had the courage to call them, to well then that we strive to make clear not only summon them to the sacrifice. But all, all IN MEMORIAN. to the public, but to ourselves, upon what failed in the supreme moment of destiny. And TO. THE EDITOR OF THE W ORKltRS' REPUBLIC grounds that homage is paid. We belong to the it seems to us that when the eternal reckoning •. SIR,- working class of Ireland, and strive to express is made, God in His infinite wisdom will deal Kindly insert the following:- In memory of Mrs. Mary Duff who was the working class point of view. Always and less harshly with the Irish Tommies in the sdhot on Bachelors' Walk by the ~~ttish Bor ever the working class movement seeks after English service than He will with the unscru erers on 26th July, 1914 :- clearness of thought, as a means to the pulous politicians, or blatant revolutionaries, who The voice is now silent, the heart is now cold accomplishment of working clas~ aims. The stood by in silence and let our poor brothers ~he s~ile and the welcome that met us of old middle class may and does deceive itself with march out to their fruitless martyrdom in e mtss her and mourn her in sorrow unseen finely turned phrases, and vague generalising of Flanders or the Dardanelles. And dwell on the memory of days that have bee~~ still vaguer aspirations, but the working class They shrank from the responsibility of giving Inserted by her Loving Husband, OwEN DUFFY, can only think and speak in language hard and the Word, not realising that they thereby took definite, as hard and definite as the condi~ions on the more shameful responsibility of failing to of working class life. give the Word. We have no room in our struggle for ANCIE T GUILD OF INCORPOR TED Rossa was one of the men who in the days BRIC d STONELA ERS, illusions-least of all for illusions about oi another generation assumed the responsibi 49 CUFFE STREET. freedom. lity from which these men shrank, and assumed O'Donovan Rossa represents to us a revolu· it amid greater difficulties. He had to face not tionary movement the least aristocratic and the only the possibility of defeat at the hands of a All Members are requested to a e ble at most plebeian that ever rai d itself to national foreign_ tyrant, but he had also to face the the Hall, Cuffe Street, on Sunday, ugu dignity in Ireland. It was a movement that "Certainty of odium and hatred from those he lst, at 12.30 o'clock, to take part 1 resting upon the masses of people in Ireland, was prepared to die to liberate. Every " re the O'Donovan Ro sa Funeral. -and drawing its inspiration from the hearts of spectable" class in the country was against the By Order, that people, was successful in inspiring its Fenians, all the Press was against them, most of JAMES Cox, President. followers witl such a belie( in their own ~bility the clergy denounced them from the altar, all R. O'CARROLL, General Surllary. to conquer and master the future, that it nerved the members of parliament hated them with a them to conspire for a revolt against the British Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives THE WORKERS' RE P UBLIC. 5 --- All owners and employers who are making TO A FOILED EUROPEAN A SHORT WAY WITH THE war profits should be dealt with as traitors, be REVOLUTIONA IRE. COA OW ERS. they railway directors, millers, farmers, or butchers. One class of traitor we have to guard against (The followir.g lines by "the good grey poet," [Bv r. Y. Z.] is the anti-Suffragist, the person who desires to Walt Whitman, are especially recommended for The frislt Times for July 14th, 15th, 16t~, see women voteless, unorganised, and paid less the study of our readers in connection with the ay. that the n1iners are traitors, and that. their than men. \Vhy did a Unionist Millionaire national honour being given to the remains of funds ought to be confiscated. Now, 1f the give a big subscription to these people in Dub· O'Donovan Rossa-one of those whom a miner:; 1~ ersi t in rebellion the Government ~an lin? In order to keep down working women so cautious but foolish world think of as foiled shoot them down or imprison them. By .d01.ng that cheap female blacklegs would be ready to revolutionists.-EDITOR. J so they will greatly hamper the war, preJUdtce scab on the men. English peers and peeresses Courage yet, my brother or my sister; re ruitin , spread discontent, and have. no co~l support the society for opposing women's Keep on, Liberty is to be subserved whatever because there will be no one to ge~ 1t. It IS suffrage. The same people want to shoot OCCUfSj rllain that the Government must yteld to. the strikers. Suffragists who destre to have women That is nothing that is quelled by one or two men who want the atwnn.· 1' Isatlon · o f the fmes · organised and getting equal pay for equal work failures, or any number of failures, 'Vho prevent this being done? The l:oal owner~. are acting fairly towards both men and women. Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the 'J here ore the coal ownec arc traitors. lt tS But these English swells who read the Sptclator people, or by any unfaithfulness, s id that the miners may be helped by German and Tt'mer are traitors to the men in the Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, gold but there is no manner of doubt that the trenches. They want them to come home and cannon, penal statutes. oal ' owner are m· pned· and mamtn.me· . db Y g.o Id , find their jobs given to underpaid, unorganised th rold the too easy·goin f public h~ve ~1V~n women, without political power. \\'omen, do 'Vhat we believe in waits latent, forever, through them. Anythinrr an owner or an a.ntt-Soc1al~st 0 your duty and organise, agitate for the Parlia all the continents, · · 1 financtal say i suspc t because It ts to liS • mentary Vote! Women cannot fight, but if Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness advantage to say it. Clearly the coal mvners men killed off all the women, what would and light, is positive and composed, knows arc traitors j they say 'rhat P· ys them, not what become of the world? no discouragement, would benefit En.~land. How should t~ese For years the ruling classes have ueen pre 'Vaiting patiently, waiting its time. traitors l e dealt '·ith? evcral suggestJOns paring for this war; they want onscription to · .... · 1· } e asked occur to one. The anti· octa I ts 1av • , d coerce the men ; they have opposed women's (Not songs of loyalty alone are these, that ertn.in measures should be emplo) e suffrage with the deliberate intention of prevent But songs of insurrection also, ag inst the strik rs, therefore they cannot .say inrr women organising ; they want cheap female For I am the sworn poet of every dauntlesS thn.t it would be immoral to use them agamst labour. They know that if both men and rebel the world over, themselves. We might then send all coal owners women are organised and act together the And he going :vith me leaves peace and routine to the iront or drop bombs on them. employers are powerless l behind him, But the b st thin" to do would be to. s?ize all Our ruling classes say women should ({obey'' And stakes his life to be lost at any moment.) . f d 'l' lke their mines, divtdends, their husbands; servants should "obey" their tl1e1r un . • f the stock shares, and estates, and use tl~en1 or . masters ; citizens sh(Juld " obey" the King ; The battle rages with many a loud alarm and . d Are they n;:tdy for this uncondt- neither women, worl·ers, nor citizens ought to frequent advance and retreat, pu bl tc goo · ? If t th are tiona! conscription o wealth · no ey ' be consulted as to the Government under which The infidel triumphs, or supposes he triumphs. tr itors. Why should Engl:md P~Y 4:! per c.cn~. they live. The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron for her War Loan? lVIt)' don t /!lese tnu/oJS The miners ought to obey their masters, say necklace and lead balls do their work. . . , ,. 1 ,1 1 1-eadi/1, as thev want men the traitors : Hut they who hold this "duty to The named and unnamed heroes pass to other gt e up ltwr 7l'tl1 11' 1 " ,., ~ h ht to .''ti·e up tluir li·z'c;) ? :ve_ have always t aug - obey" idea arc causing the men to strike, there spheres. hitherto that • ~tionaltsatJ m must be accom fore they are traitors! Take their money, send The great speakers and writers are exiled, they pamed. by compcnsa t'wn. IJt} 1t the owners and them to the front. Do unto the coal owners as lie sick in distant lands. their friends have set us a c~eap and e~~y he would should be clone unto the striker. example. Let us r. ::tll them traitors and seize It is the aristocracy of England who have The cause is asleep, the strongest throats are their funds. kept women voteless. If working men-English chokej with their own blood. They talk about the tncn in the t~enches, but and Irish-an: wi:se, they ,,-ill see to it that The young men droop their eyelashes toward what authority hare l hey for saym Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives 6 THE WORKE~S' REPUBLIC. are not likely to be cowed by intimidation of black sheep everywhere, and if this is not a NORTHERN NOTE~. this sort. If the police want to make further b_adly cured red-herring, those gentlemen will FRUIT OF OUR FOLLY. frightful examples let them have the honesty g1ve the names to the Cork Branch of the The expected has happened. Tl~e so-called to do their own dirty work directly. Volunteers National Union of Life Assurance Agents. If National . Register is to be apphed to the would be well advised to give no thought to not they cannot expect any mercy from us in Irish areas least likely and least able _to such threats until something definite is done. future. The Insurance Agents are a body of ignore it. Observe that the offictal This advice is scarcely needed. In spite of men who know more about the dome tic affairs announcement states the Register will be events of the past fortnight-and they are of their clients than any other body. Yet, we applied to Belfast, Derry, Antr_im and Down. serious blows to a body numerically small fail to find a single breach of confidence on It is in this area that the Insh Volunteers last week's parade showed the Volunteers their part. are at the weakest. The Ulst_er Volunteers steady and firm, if justly indignant. 'l~he Quarterly Meeting of the Co-operative ~re indeed armed and have supphes of ammun · THE GREAT DEAD. ~octe.ty was an eye opener. This Society, whi h ition. Those of the National Volunteers who A strong committee representative of all the 1s domg good work everywhere for the working are left have useless weapons ana no am national bodies has been formed to organise cla7ses, seems to be falling asleep in 'ork. We mun.tion. The Ulster Volunteers _have no a Belfast party for the Rossa funeral. The beheve they are the means of keepine a che k cause to oppose r~gistr~tion and theLr leaders great dead Revolutionery deserves all our on the food hogs, and if they only bestir them welcome it. The Nauonal Volunteers are honour, for above all he was a man of action selves and cater for the support of the worke1 s impotent even if they wished to act. . ~he in an hour of trial. The committee includes they will get that support. If not, get out. · Irish Volunteers, with arms a~d. ammun~twn, the best workers and most active spirits in \Ve do not wish to ay a word to the poor, are few in number. To be sure 1t 1s proclatmed Belfast movements and is facing the exceptional but the conduct of the Eclto boys in Falkiner's that no penalties are attached to refusal to difficulties wtih courage, enthusiasm and Lane is simply disgraceful. \Ve don't blarnt. the reoister. But who dares lo assert that the method. A more representative committee of boys so rnuch, but we think somethin11 should police or military ?r whoever or?ers these the Irish bodies has never worked together be done to protect poor old men fr~m what things will not penalise those who 1~nore the here and its efforts deserve the crown of success. might b~ ma_nslaughter. Those young fellows register? True it is, too, that. the faithful few A special train is announced to run on Sunday have thetr mmd_s filled with the glory of war, are already spotted and spted _upon. The next, August rst, and tickets can be obtained and each considers himself a ~like O'Leary. register will give, as we say, "the nght excuse'' from the principal newsagents and national \Ye don't wish to see deeds of that kind perpe to our new nationality crusaders. But let _that bodies. The committee wishes not only to trated here. deter no one from dealing with the register honour Rossa and se1 ve Ireland but to make , \ye hope th_e.stat;ment ~1ade by 1\lr. J. Daly, as it ought to be dealt with whether its in ome sort the occasion an answer to the ~.C., ~t last l';tday s meetmg of the Corp ra application now is intended t? pr~p~r~ the way recent attacks. In that as in other aims it twn w1ll not, hke t~e names of the culprits, be for conscription or to terronse, mttmtdate and is hoped they will have the support of Belfast hushed up. Here 1s a man sixteen years in an provoke. readers of this paper. CROBH-DEARG. empluyment, with a wife and six hildren THE DUTY OF THE COUNTRY. declared medically unfit after st wn months'' In this area those who are opposed to service-no limbs lost, no bones broken, men registration are a small minority. That do~s CORK NOTES. tally sound, and the good etnployers of Cork not absolve them from carrymg out thetr At Thursday night's meeting of the Cork refu3e to give him his position, althou·•h it IS obligations. This ~iJ?e there mu~t be . no United Trades and Labour Counc1l the four more than likely his duties r~ndered h~~1 unfit. hesitation nor indeclston but a plam, stra1~ht officers were deputed to attend a meeting to Of course the "good employers" got an English lead. That lead must come from the Insh make arrangements for attending the funera~ of man, 23 yeats of age, unmarried, and fit for Volunteers in Belfast and tlzey must llaz1e tlte Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, t~e rebel agamst service. No wonder the CaherciYeen Petty moral and material support of flu rest of Inland. English authority in !~eland, and therefore one 0 sifer thought the Iri h were only mats for th That is the nwst Nationalists here ask for; of the first gentlemen m the world. English to cle.m their boots on. It is evident it is the lea t they have a right to d~mand. Alderman Kelleher svoke in the highest terms the Irishman was made to protect the English The country's duty is clear ~nd u!lequ~v?cal: of the life and work of the dead patriot, and man's wife and family. irrespective of all other constderatlo~s lt 1s to suggested that a vote of condolence be sent to l\lotor accidents are very common just now. stand or fall by the side of that po:ti~n of the the family. There were two in Frida) 's Examin r. Full whole that is struck at. Perhaps 1t lS but a Mr. Good, in moving the vote of sympathy, particulars as to owner, etc., given in one case coincidence that the application of the register said that though the Council was non-political, none in the other. \Vhy? ' should be announced after the arrest, at due they all realised the value of O'Donovan Rossa's If the Gas ompany's resolution ad pted at intervals for reflections and testing, of the tour services and sacrifices for Ireland. He could Friday's meeting of Council succeed in its deportees. It is certainly a ?ignificant co not trust himself to speak, but regretted the re object, we hope the Corporation will see the incidence that it should be apphed to the very wards for services rendered to small nationalities people who use coke, gas, and electricity, will area to which three of the deportees belong. were so different to those of our time. share the benefit. THE DEPORTEE . Mr. J. Kidney seconded, and the motion was The microbe again . Mr. Lane says the All three of the Ulster deportees have now passed unanimously. .Medical Officer is doing useful work. In our been arrested. On formal charges of disregar The Delegates from the Painters' Society met opinion a report on the railway pest spots would dinrr the order of deportation they have been with a rousing reception. The same welcome be more in his line. A return of t·hc slum rcm~1.nded on the specious pretence of " com- awaits the various ·other bodies. \Vill the rank areas, bad housing conditions, insanitary and Jletinrr evidence." Strange that this "evidence'' and file take action? Is not the miners an badly ventilated workshops and factories would I 0 is taking some constderable• t1me· t"o compIt" e e. object lesson of olidarity and Organization? accomplish all that is required with a little assist Stranger still will it be if it is "COf!lple~ed ." A member of the Coachmakers' Society pro an e in the way of food and clothing. \Ve have within a reasonable time.. Meanwhile It lS tested very strongly against the proprietors of our opinions why these things are not mentioned, understood thJ.t all three are in good health the Cork Examimr who, although strong advo· but we wtll say nothin' for the present. Thoc:;e and spirits and are allowed visitors and book?· cates of home manufacture, and prominent gentlemen cannot blame us later if we tell un A very considerable amount of sympathy ts members of the Industrial Development Asso pleasant truths. vVe are out to kill microbes; shown by the public, but it is not at all_ to. the ciation, sent across the waters for a motor van, the germ of snobocracy first. credit of Pelfast that, outside the orgamsatwns which, according to the speakers, could be The Feeding of Necessitous School Children to which the men belong, not a single repr_e~ent made cheaper and better in Cork. We say those is now agreed upon. \Ye trust those who pos· ative or any public man has had the spmt or things should be exposed, but we think it only sess a goodly share of the world's wealth will pride to protest by spe~ch o: writing . against fair to get the names of all the sinners. Quite a sulJ ·cribe, and subscribe liberally, to this de er the order for deportauon Without tn~l. and large number of motors and motor cars are ving object. Of course, if the Government did arrest of fel10w-townsmen an.d fellow-c1tlzens. going about the city to-day, and other vehicles its duty it would provide ample funds for the Has the spit it of citizenship fallen so low as \Vell as motors, and we should like to know purpose. that :my attack, however unjust and outrageous, how many of them were made in Cork or even \Vhat is wrong with the School of l\I usic? can be made on a Belfastman without as muc_h in Ireland. If the Trades and Labour Bodies vVe know some members on that Committee as a protest from those who b?ast of the1r will only give us the names we shall soon let and we are sure if anything can be done t~ liberty of conscience and Jove of nght, freedom the public know who are the patriots and revive th~ old airs they will not be found and justi e? A part from what ought or ought friends of the workers. wanting. not to have been done by the Volunteers Our recent remarks concerning the working The Munitions' 'ommittee are endeavouring this skulking is a public scandal. of Cork Union is having effect. Some of the to get some of the work done in Cork. Of COURAGE, JACOBINS. . Guardians think we are getting our information course we should like to find employment for Through mdirect ch~nnels th~ _pollee _are from some of the In'surance Agents who visit our people. Pity we could not get something conveying threats of d1re calanllttes agamst the house in the interests of the poor. From better than engines of slaucrhter. Let those the rr~nk and file of Nationalists here. I .~!11 our knowledge of the Cork Agents we believe who are willing see they gd ~heir share. We mu h mistaken if these threats disturb the the statements made by Messrs. Desmond and cannot help being suspicious of the moti\·es of peace. of mind of the city Volunteers. They O'Mahony most uncalled for. True, there are some of these gentlemen. Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives I f THE WORKERS' REPUBLIC. 7 TRALEE NOTES. dismissal. This has been done without the MERCHANT SHIPPING ACTS authority of a Council Meeting, and at a [Bv ROBAL.) time when the cleaning of the streets require THE "THIRD PARTY.'' the full staff of men. \Ve will hear more DETENTION OF SHIP IN ENEMY PoRT: l!II'TERN· t the last meeting of the Harbour llo~rd of this. MENT OF CREW: HAGUE Cmn'ENTION, 1907: the ·rrades Council Resolution condemnmg TERMI TAT! ON OF SERVICE: RIGHT TO \VAGES. the uncalled for attack of the Chai~m~n, Mr. B~ the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, it is Mce. .Kelliher, on local Trades Umomsts w~s . THE CALL TO BATTLE. provtded that where the service of a seaman read. Mr. f'elliher seems to have lost hts terminates before the date contemplated in ferocity as his remarks. we~e more. or less of This poem was printed in the Ne'W York the agreement, by reason of the wreck or loss an apologetic nature th1s urn~, saymg. he was Times last August when the horror, the insanity, of the ship, or of his being left on shore at only concerned principally m the mtere.::;ts the lunacy of war was the great astounding fact. a place abroad under a certificate that he is of the third party~the customer. Of cour.se, Stand up, you men, to be shot down ! unfit or unable to proceed on the voyao-e we all know that strike are not conducive Nor ask the reason why he shall be entitled to wages up to the ti~~ to good at ali times and that the tr_ade _of the The great ones, who depend on you, of ?uch termination, but not for any longer particular place where they OCCUr r IS . diVerted See fit to have you die! penod. A seam:m, on mlking an agreem, nt t other centre , but what Mr. Kepth~r and Small odds to them what comes to you, for service, may stipulate for the allotment of his cla -5 do not, or will not, rea~tse 1s that Or what the reason why : part of his wages to another person. The the employer is invaribaly res1~on tble ~o.r a You pay the price of sacrifice person in whose favour an allotment note is strike. ow wages, bad workmg conditions It is not they who die. made may, unless the searnan is shown to have and long hours are the cause; ~he cause. can forfeited or cea:;ed to be entitled to wages, be removed by the employer tf he wtshes What matters it, although you fall, recover the sums allotteu from the owner and strikes can be averted. That they should stand ? 'Tis fate of the ship with respect to which the contract Apportions what is humble lot ot serv~ce was m:ld.e. By the Hague Convention, DR.\PERY TRIKE. . And what the world calls gre~t. 1907, It wAs prov1ded that where a merchant The local drapery di pute to whtch Mr. Your right is human, their's divine ; ship belonging to a belligerent Power is in an Kdliht!r referred has been caused by t~e ·which you n1ust not deny ; enemy port when hostilities commence, the employers~the .M.unster \Varehouse Co. ~h1s They drive you into war's red din- ship should be allowed to depart freely, either goes without saymg, and why Mr. K_elhher It is not they who die! immediately, or after a reasonable number of should blame the Assistants for trymg to days grace; and that if such a ship is unable secure the observance Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives 8 THE WORKERS' REPUBLIC. Citizen Army marches to Stephen's Green to for London took 310 cases of empty projectiles Rossa Funeral. join the Trade Union Section of the Demon and 2, 1oo cases of loaded projectiles. The Du stration. Owing to the number of different Pont C~mpany sent 2 z cases of caps on the ADDRBSS TO IRISH WOMEN bodies taking part ez•try organisation must steamsh1p :Maleas, bound for Grecian ports. marc/z off at tlu pr(lptr time. The Niagara for Bordeaux took 7,ooo ases of WORKERS JA~ms CoN.'OLLY, loaded cartridges and 250 cases of empty cartridges. The Adriatic has 1,995 cases of Acting General ecretary. loaded cartridges. FELLOW \YoRKER - The only cannon loaded during the week \Ye want you with us on Sunday, as we have FIFE AND DRUM BANDS were 30 small canuon sent to London by the always wanted you with us. Those of you who fississippi. The t-.Iississippi also took 1 1 stayed by the Union, those of you whom The Fife and Drum Bands connected with cases ?f firearms. The Adriatic for Liverpool tyranny drove away from the Union, and those the Transport Union will parade at Liberty had Slx cases of revolvers and 4 cases of rifles of you whom foolish intrigues and:jealousies Hall at 12.00 on Sunday to take part in the and 107 cases of rifles went to Greece. Th~ Rossa Funeral. All members please note. stea!Dship Franklyn took 230 cases of military put out of the Union. eqmpment to Havre and 85 cases went by WE WANT YOU ALL. other vessels to London. \Ye therefore invite all Present, Past, and WAR CONTRABAND The only foudstuffs loaded for Europe Intending Members of the Irish \Vomen during the week were 41,6oo bags of t1our, FROM A "NEUTRAL" STATE. 6,450 cases of bed, 40,222 bags of sugar and \Yorkers' Union to Join us on Sunday in I,ooo tons of sugar in bulk. The beef went to Beresford Place at 12.:)0, and Iviarch in the Italy, 35,6oo bags of Hour went to France and Ranks of Labour to Honour O'Donovan Rossa. Shipments of ""ar contraband to Europe from the rest to England. All of the sugar was for Let all differences be forgotten. the port of New York are increasing. Orders Frnace. A new move for the Old Cause. placed in the United States months ago are now There were large shipments of a1l kinds of being completed and rushed to this port to be metal for manufacturing purposes, with steel, JAMES CONNOLLY. loaded. Twenty-one vessels were lo::tding at bra s, copper and zinc leading in the amount New York for six countries of Europe during loaded. Because some of the metal is li ted hy the week ended July 2nd. the piece, orne of it by the bundle or case and Irish Citizen Army These vessels represented a total net tonnage some by theton, it is impossible to give any of 76,633, and experts say that the actual ton totals. nage of the cargo of these vessels would total In brass 309 cases of sheets were shipped, Headquarters: LIBERTY HALL, DUBLIN. up to more than Ioo,ooo tons. Eight of the 6.p cases of blanks So cases of discs, r ,8o9 ships were !Jaded for France, five for England, ingots, 995 cases of rods and 770 rods listed by the pie e. All of the brass was sent to Co. r.MANDANT: CHIEF oF STAFF: three loaded cartridges, which are not consi dered under the head of explosives for purposes France and England. JA~ms CoNNOLLY. M. MALLIN. of shipping. Projectiles may be carried on Large quantities of steel were sent to England The Irish Citizen Army will pa~ade at Liberty passenger vessels, but not loaded projectiles. and France in the form of sheets, blooms, billets, rails, ties, pipe and forgings. Copper, Hall on Sunday, August 1st, at 12.30 sharp to High explosives, dynamite, gun-cotton, etc., in lt1ding I -t,J90 copper cathodes, was loaded are loaded from lighters in Gravt:send Bay, and take part in the above procession. Along with in tubes, rods and ingot for Italy, France and the Irish 1 ransport \Yorkers' Union it will then the vessel is required to display a red danger England. Ital), France and England also got flag during the process. The Hermine was 2 7,913 cases of sheet zinc. Of this anwunt proceed to join the Trade Union Sectioh of the loaded in Gravesend Bay with high explosives Demonstration which will assemble in Stephen's 14,151 cases went to Liverpool by che \Yhite for Bordeaux on June 2nth. In her cargo Star liner Adriatic. Green at 1 p.m., under the orders of the Dublin there were 5 496 cases of smokeless powder, Almost every vessel loading fur Europe 2,219 cases of gun-cotton, r,7oo cases of tri Trades and Labour Council. takL s wire of one kind or another for ust~ by nitre, I 1 2 barrels of picric acid, I 82 barrels of the countries at war. Holl;-.nd got a good share Afterwards the Joint Labour Section wal fall nitro cellulose, 15 I drums of coal tar oil and 16 of the 4,229 bundles of copper wire that were ' in in its allotted place in the General Demon drums of tuluol. loaded in the week; 7,227 bundles of barbed stration. Exclusive of motor trucks, 363 automobiles wire were sent to England and .France; Engbnd Labour Badges to be worn by all our mem were loaded during the week. Russia will get and Greece divided the 1,2oo bundlt's of 1 I 7, England 99, France so and Greece 50. bers and sympathisers can be obtained, price teel wire and I4,JOO bundles of unclassified Two vessels for London carried 179 cases of wire was sent to England, France and Italy. 2d., from the Workers' Co-operative Shop, 31 automobile parts, and one for Russia was loaded All of the countries except Russia will get Eden Quay, or at Liberty Hall. with 49 ases of parts. Tbere were 1, 2 7 r coils l:u··re shipments of lubricating oil. A total of Every Army and Trade Union Member is of automobile tires loaded for England. 14,944 barrels was sent, the largest shipments bound in honour to be present. England will get all of the fifty aeroplanes going to England. Holland and France will that were loaded during the week. l\Iost of get ~11 of the x,or8 of leather loaded during JAMES CONNOLLY. them were packed in huge crates for Italy, two the ·week, and 24 t cases of shoes were sent to for Russia, two for Greece, and one for Holland. France. The supplies loaded here for Europe during France gets all 231 cases of machinery, FINTAN LALOR BAND. the seven days beginning June 26th and ended except fonrteen cases of unclassified machinery • July 2nd were typical in character of those ~cnt to England on the steamship Exeter City. loaded during any seven days within the last Of the machinery for France, 126 cases The J Archives are subject to copyright and should not be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Director of the National Archives