CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO 01R READERS e3SI«llllB a s e assess liasns WE MUST BEAT THE a No. 168 DKCLMBER 1958 as • SLUMP BELFAST GOV'T Irish Conference in London BEATS RETREAT Many Trade Unionists give support THE Six-County Tory Government, defeated by the united industrial strength of Belfast's workers, has beat a UTOMATION and Tory Government policy were blamed for the shambling retreat on one of its most blatantly anti-democratic looming prospect of unemployment when sixty delegates, and visitors, met laws. dustry. and has never dared to It has been forced to repeal the under the chairmanship of the Editor of the "Irish Democrat," to discuss the prosecute the "law-breaking" worst parts of the notorious strikers. Trades Disputes Act—because it "Irish in the struggle for work and wages." v (Continued on Page Two, Col. One) lound itself incapable of enforcing Mr. H. R. Edwards, son-in-law of , and it. $» e^ rtrt ft ft t"j ft ft ft ft ft AAAAAA ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft i London organiser of the N.U.V.B., said that unless the Tory The Act. identical to one long Government was replaced by a Labour Government with the ago repealed in Britain, shackled The freedoms of the trade union necessary policy, there would be unemployment and the movement and severely limited the possibility of attempts at discrimination agarnst Irish workers right to strike. in Britain. He declared that Trade Unionism would have none UNABLE of this.

Because of its existence in this Us y & w W VV V V V £ ft ft ft^ft ft ft SURPLUS .small "part of the United King- Mr. Edwards was introducing the dom." the British Government was 2= discussion on a report by the Edi- unable to ratify without reserva- THE SMILES OF 2> tion the International Labour tor in which he said there were S Organisation convention on free- CHAMPIONS two factors in the emigration prob- 3> df-iii of association. Well may William Johnson and lem. One was the fact of the pro- gressive ruin of thousands of Irish Every major strike in the Six "Terry" Casalaspro smile. On Sunday, 5 small farmers, shopkeepers and Counties since the war has been a 26th October, at the London Feis they 2» artisans, together with their fami- direct challenge to this dictatorial were declared winner and runner-up 3> Tory measure, and has been a lies and employees. This reduced respectively in the Minor Irish Dancing u direct limiting of the law by the S the internal market, and caused a lampionship of London. (reani.sed workers. 2= labour surplus. Although every major strike has William's father comes lrom , n. been in fact illegal, the Govern- while his mother is lrom Cork. Terry is £ That in itself would not create r.vnt lound itself impotent in face United States born of Italian father 2= any problem in Britain however 'I the strength of ieeling in in- and Irish mother. Both are pupils of 2»i great, the emigration, but Ipr one the Ted Kavanagh School ol Irish 2= other thing. That was the exis- 2> tence of large pockets of extremely Dancing. i* unorganised workers, especially in AN COIMISIUN tjtjtjtjtjyy tjytuze„stjtjtjcjytu:& yeusytjttf tjejtjtjtjtjy t-.tjtjcj,tu;& ?tjtjtjytjytjyytjytj tjytjy« building, catering and nursing. A an coimisium a ceapadh T chun ceist na Gaeilge a scrudu The existence of disunity in the ag tabhairt fen obair fe lathair na 9 ranks of the British workers before huaire. Agus ta obair mhor rompa (< the Irish came was the basis of ma tha siad chun i dheanamh i attempts to create fresh disunity ndairire. Pe seifteanna a mhol- We will embarrass them when they arrived. The problem faidh siad chun staid na haith- was therefore not to be regarded bheochana a laidriu ta geallam- |NTRODUCING a discussion nolly Association, said that the as a problem of the organisation of haint beagnach tugtha ag an unorganised Irish, but a^ the prob- rialtas go gcuirfear i ngniomh iad. as a result of which it was Six-county Government had lem of unorganised trade