CIVIL RIGHTS IN OCCUPIED IRELAND NOW THE DEATH IPUS H W 1/- ROLL HAS DE MOCRAT No. 300 AUGUST 1969 STARTED BRITAIN'S BIGGEST TWO VICTIMS OF TERROR TRADE UNION CALLS CALL OFF FESTIVAL OF BIGOTRY!
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UkfHAT the IRISH DEMOCRAT warned Mr. Wilson about has THE Transport and General Workers' Union conference at happened. 1 Douglas (Isle of Man) pased without a single opposing vote Because of his inaction in face of a situation he knew about, a resolution demanding civil rights in the six counties of Northern Ireland. two Irishmen have lost their lives. It was proposed by a London The Special Powers Act must be The first was Mr. Samuel Devenney who died as a result docker, Mr. Brian Nicholson, and abolished. of an attack by the R.U.C. on Thursday, July 17th. seconded by a London Transport The Public Order Act should be DANGER worker, Mr. D. Harris, of Hammer- withdrawn. Last April he was standing back again with a heart attack, smith. ~VX/"HAT has happened? He condemned the delaying of outside his house while the and finally he died. Mr. Nicholson, in a hard-hitting the introduction of "One-inan-one- " Only six pounds in donations police were attacking the FUNERAL APPEAL to the "Irish Democrat" mainten- speech, said his delegation were not vote" to 1971. people. Two of their victims His wife issued a touching appeal prepare^ to accept the old "con ance fund through the whole of He stated that up to the present retreated from the batons and that the funeral should not be made trick" of referring the resolution to July. an occasion for worsening of com- the policy of the Transport?* and Let's hope it takes up in August. ran through Mr. Devenney's the regional administration. house, their sole means of munity relations. General Workers' Union had been Send quickly. The second death was that of a UNITY one of "dodging" this issue. Otherwise we will be in danger. escape. great old Republican veteran Mr. When the police followed them it What was going on in Northern (Continued on Page Eight) Francis McCloskey of Dungjven. He is alleged that they assaulted Mr. Ireland was more serious than just died in Altnagelvin Hospital on Devenney. He was taken ^o hospi- Monday, July 14th twenty four a few marches. Protestants and tal where the medical men managed Catholics were allowing themselves hours rafter being found injured in to p$i him sound. But he was soon the main street of the town. to be divided on civil rights prob- . • ~ * lems and this prevented their unity He had been Injured during on other issues. disturbances caused by the twelfth of July celebrations. There was a new expression of Again every effort was made to discontent canalised into the Civil Picket on prevent his death being made a Rights Movement. cause for further trouble. The He wanted a properly-ordered Dungiven Action Committee can- points system for housing. celled a march they had planned through the town. Discrimination on grounds of re- "VTEMBERS of the Central Lon- ligion to be made illegal. INSULT don branch of the Connolly Fr. George Doherty, curate of St. There must be no discrimination Association placed a picket on the Patrick's church who celebrated the in the siting of industry. "Daily Telegraph" in Fleet Street Requiem Mass, told the congr eg ac- following the publication on Mon- tion : "if one hand is raised in day, July 14th of an editorial call- anger in revenge then that hand is Father Casey ing for British backing for the use raised in insult against and dese- of force by the Unionist Govern- crates the memory of Francis Mc- ment against the Civil Rights move- Closkey." • Bishop of Kerry ment in the six counties. The second death occurred after The public was handed a leaflet the most vicious twelfth of July LEATHER EAMONN CASEY'S ap- accusing the "Telegraph" of white- pogroms for many years. pointment as new Bishop of Mr. Brian Nicholson and Mr. D. Harris. washing the Orange order and pnv But significant of the thinking Kerry will please many Irish people tested against references to "a that is taking place among mem- in London. Father Casey when he horde of thugs masquerading as re- bers of the Protestant community was living here did tremendous formers and counting on the senti- was a statement made by Sir work for the Irish and other work- mental support of British radicals." Tyrone Guthrie that the annual ing-class people with housing prob- Telefis resignations After picketting the "Telegraph" celehration.s on July 12th were pro- lems. the members of the Association vocative. I ) ADIO TELEFIS EIREANN has that common meaning which pro- He was chairman of "Shelter" and moved off to Downing Street. "Could anybody deny," said Sir ' been getting some hard vides the basis of the common life, founder of the Catholic Housing Aid Tyrone, "who is ChanssNor of which is our culture." There a letter was handed In to Society. He was closely connected knocks just lately. The Gaelic Queens University, "that the League has bitterly attacked it Mr. Harold Wilson demanding that with the Irish Centre, Camden She said that the universal a public enquiry be instituted Into arouse, the flags, the taihss ami as an agency of " Anglo-American Town. He has been on Irish Tele- spread of technology and the con- the death of two Irishmen following especially the bonfires and music vision on many occasions and he culture," brain-washing the Irish sumer philosophy of capitalism was actions by the R.U.C, (Continued on Page Eight) hasn't minced his words about the people with anti-Irish values, and producing a sub-culture destructive situation of so many Irish people insidiously moulding them in the of human values. "The Irish situa- in Britain, particularly young mar- interests of international big-busi- tion." she said, "is part of this. We ried couples without homes, and ness. seem to regard it as inevitable, but about the neglect and Indifference The influence of R.T.E. is enor- it is not. It is simply not true to of the authorities back home. mous. The flickering screen can be say that there is a necessary de- Mr. Des Wilson, director of seen through hundreds of thou- mand for Anglo-American culture "Shelter," is reported as saying: sands of windows throughout Ire- or an Irish imitation of it. It is Father Casey has been a brilliant land every night. The struggle over we In fact who create the demand advocate for the homeless, and has what should be on that screen is by supplying it to saturation point devised a housing aid advice system in its own way part of our national by repetition." necessary wherever the housing struggle. The Dublin Wolfe Tone Society problem is felt. The values of commerce rule in has suggested a possible way out. "The whole voluntary housing R.T.E. as the station gets its incortie Do what the Swedes do, it says, movement will rejoice in this mostly from advertising. Whatever where there is no advertising on recognition of the qualities that he displeases the advertisers is out. television, where television is on has to offer his fellow men." The recent resignation of two only three hours a night so that Father Casey succeeds Bishop prominent R.T.E. staff members the quality of programmes can be Denis Moynihnn who has retired at over these very issues shows the extremely good and people stick to the age of 85. The appointment of kind of struggle going on. home TV rather than go for a man like him shows the in- Miss Leila Doolin and Captain foreign stations, and charge higher fluence of hew progressive thinking Jack Dowllng have been to the licensing fees to meet the cost. amongst the Irish hierarchy; With fore in trying to make R.T.E. re- More and more people are becom- Dr. Birch of Ossory, Dr. Harty of flect Irish life and uphold cultural ing aware of the dangers of Anglo- Killaloe, Dr. Lucey of Cork and standards. This is what Miss American culture imperialism in some others, Bishop Casey will for- Doolin had to say: She fiad re- Ireland today. They are organising ward and encourage a more radical signed in order to draw attention to to fight it in various areas. During social involvement by the Irish the critical situation of Irish Tele- the coming period Telefls Eireann will be the scene of many further Church generally and within his vision . . . "Telefis Eireann is The platform at Trafalgar Square. (See page eight) own diocese. losing the cultural battle to develop battles on these issues. August 1969 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 WORLD COMMENTARY 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1969 IRISH DEMOCRAT By PAT DEVINE Editor: DESMOND GREAVES Associate Editor: SEAN REDMOND PEOPLE VERSUS MILLIONAIRES Books: GERARD CURRAN Songs: Patrick Bond ]>ROBABLY the clearest evi- that could lead to murderous po- She will have been bom to rule Eagle spacecraft only confirms the Administration: dence of the Labour Gov- groms and deaths, the full import and to live off the backs of working great technical achievements of the A. Curran, James Kelly, ernment's imperialist sense of of which cannot yet be appreciated. people—until they heave the lot of two powers. THE NEW GERRYMANDER D. Deirhan, E. & G. Shields ROYAL RABBIT WARREN the Royal Rabbits off their backs. '^HE six-county administration values emerged recently in re- The Russians were the first 10 P. Mulligan, C. Cunningham. A day which we all hope will not has published its proposals lation to the Rhodesian and They are at it again. The Royal put up a sputnik in 1957. They Rabbit Warren has drawn another be too far distant. for local government. Irish crises. also put the first human being into country into its orbit. AFRICAN HUMANISM orbit LETTER FROM THE LEE LIFFEY LIGHTS from ANTHONY COUGHLAN Growing up in Derry Part one By JIM SAVAGE WAS born in a stable — when the Specials came up the TI£OUSE building is grinding Catholic University be the reposi- Andy McLaughlin's stable by street shouting "Get that light E.E.C. ENTRY WOULD NOT HELP IRELAND I to a standstill in Cork City tory of these Irish documents, not down the hill from my out or we'll shoot it out, ye because I didn't think they would BRIDGET McGOWAN Fenian b . . . s."... despite the promises made by I'HE British and Irish Govern- The Government doesn't see it we were neutral in the war against parents' house in the city of be given the proper attention but, are divided on the Common Market. | iNE of the most ardent advocates Another night my mother the Fianna Fail people prior to ments are now once again like that of course. Wishful think- "atheistic Nazism," to which Mr. Derry. The troubles were on at ing robes were shared by the mainly because I became convinced Labour tends to view the Common ot Common Market member- put this young lad hanging by the General Election. Cork ing in relation to Britain and the Lynch replied that our neutrality the time and our house was in whole street! The people had that they belonged to Ireland. The laying Common Market airs. Market as a "rich man's club." ship in Ireland, however, is Mr. a sheet from the window, other big capitalist countries of then was due to our own circum- the middle of the target area to help each other—they got Corporation are dissatisfied with goal of the Fenian Brotherhood Beguiling tunes for a public Some of the Labour T.D.S are Garret Fitzgerald of Fine Gael, who which overlooked a 50ft. drop, Western Europe characterises its stances, the division of the country for the Orangemen sniping no help from the Unionists on the progress made by the was to free Ireland from the yoke :hey seem to think is infinitely strongly opposed to membership professes to see membership of the while she tied the other end whole foreign policy. Its main fear by partition in particular, rather from the City walls and Gov- the council! National Building Agency in of Britain and practically all the gullible. Their fond hope is that and there is strong opposition also E.E.C. as a way for Ireland to round herself—she was preg- at the moment is that Britain than to the character ol Nazism. He ernor Walker's statue. It was providing 208 dwellings which papers had to do with the various among the rank-and-file. escape from the effects of British HENEVER a family was nant at the time—and sat in i hey can enter the E.E.C. at last might do a deal with the Common did not seem to see any contradic- at the risk of your life that schemes and ideas whereby this economic imperialism. He seems W threatened with eviction the settle-bed next to the win- were to be handed over in the now that General de Gaulle, Market countries and leave Ireland tion between that and a partitioned you dashed out for a bucket of might be brought about." Labour has not attempted to .spell to think that if we were in the for non-payment of rent, my dow. The police searched the period November 1968 to March who kept them out for so long, out. We would then have to find Ireland standing side-by-side with water—ail the houses had out- out the policies that would need to E.E.C. along with Britain we would mother and others would be house, but never caught hinj. 1969. has retired from the French our own way independently and Britain in a Common Market mili- side taps. So when things got Father D'Arcy's request to the be followed if Ireland were to stay be able to play off Britain against round with a notebook and Next morning when he saw face many complicated problems, tary alliance against Communism. really lively we had to take Catholic University came in sup- Presidency. out. To do so would require adopt- the other member states and thus pencil collecting the pennies the drop he had hung over, he This figure is a disgrace when something for which Fianna Fail refuge down the hill—and port of a request from the Cork Mr. Jack Lynch and his Ministers ing a detailed anti-imperialist pro- have more real independence than and sixpences together — and nearly died! thousands of newly married couples these days has very little stomach. COME scoffingly ask what help the there it was in the stable that County Library Committee in :..ee the Common Market as the one gramme and this Labour, despite now. But this is surely another whoever had it, gave—for they are seeking places to live and are Mr. Lynch therefore has gone ^ Irish army .Could be to a Com- my mother's pains began and The pictures in the kitchen February 1967, to the University to nay out of the mess they are in all its talk of "Socialism," has so example of Irish wishful thinking, could be in the same fix the presently in slum flats, sometimes quite overboard in expressing his mon Market military alliance? But far failed to attempt. I was brought into the world. —my mother had James Con- permit the papers to find a home in with the Anglo-Irish Free Trade different from but akin to that of next month. paying up to four pounds per week. Government's commitment to the it is not the army, it is the military I was the seventh of 14 chil- nolly on one wall, Wolfe Tone Ireland. The Library Committee Agreement. This agreement was Mr. Lynch. Much more likely Others are living with parents in Common Market, Dr. Hillery, who bases which would be of value, in dren; my parents both came My father was out of work facing him, Robert Emmet then made a case that Ireland originally signed as a step towards Dr. Cruise O'Brien, T.D., will be would be the big countries, includ- overcrowded conditions. Cork is the has succeeded Mr. Frank Aiken as particular the deep water ports and most of his life—he used to be over the door, Pearse and De seemed to be the proper resting Market entry. Its effects are be- a major influence on the Labour ing Britain, concerting together on from Donegal. My mother, Minister for External Affairs, has the sheltered harbours for supply doing all sorts of jobs and Valera beside the fireplace I third largest city in Ireland, with a place for the documents and that ginning'to hit Irish industry hard, Party's E.E.C. policy if the question how to fleece us the more efficiently whose family came from Let- met the Germans and the Dutch to ships and Polaris-carrying sub- peddling stuff to farmers to A priest came in one day population of 122,000 people with a out the Dublin Government hopes of Britain's entry becomes practical if we were lumped together with termacaward, had started the physical presence of the papers assure them of the Dublin Govern- marines. These could well be of working for a farmer as a try to make ends meet. He and looked around, "And very severe housing shortage. in Ireland would enable them to be that entry to the E.E.C. will give , politics again. At present he is them in the E.E.C. sold flowers from a stall on ment's enthusiasm for joining. It great importance to N.A.T.O. and known to be very critical of propo- child for £5 a year and her Where's the Holy Family?" said classified and catalogued and an Irish farmers such tip-top prices for to the British, Americans and Ger- It may all come to nothing if the the Diamond for some years The National Building Agency, is, above all, a "political" commit- sals for the 26-Counties joining a food—and her mother used to he. "Have you no room for index prepared so that they would beef and butter as to make up for mans in the event of war. It looks French are only pretending to have until the Unionist Council which is a profit-making company, ment, he has said. political union of Western European come and collect the £5! She them?" "Oh, I just took them be available for study. all t..e losses elsewhere. as if Mi-. Lynch is now throwing modified their policy on British threw him off—and gave the was created by the Minister of countries alone because the "core was greatly loved and respected down to clean, Father." It is the biggest illusion imagin- T)OLITICAL commitments of that them in as part of the entry price E.E.C. membership in the aftermath in our community, where she site to a Red Cross stall. "Hmm! You have James Con- Local Government, Kevin Boland, However, two months later, the able. Thousands of tons of kind inevitably involve military states" are highly developed indus- of De Gaulle's departure. Other- on the pretext that it was to look he is willing to pay for admission trial countries which would deter- acted as unpaid midwife, Charity is fine—but depriving nolly the Red, Tone who was Catholic University archivist, Mr. refrigerated butter pile up in the commitments and the question of to the E.E.C. wise these are some of the argu- bringing hundreds of children a man of a living? a pagan, Emmet the atheist— after the interests of housing, and Moreau B. Chambers, informed the E.E.C. store-houses as the French the effect of Common Market mem- mine policy and Ireland would be ments and issues the country will was forced on the Cork Corporation. The opposition parties in the Dail obliterated." into the world and never ask- GREW up in a real rebel you'll never get a priest to Library Committee that the Com- and German farmers produce vastly bership on Irish military neutrality be debating in the period ahead. The amount of money involved was ing a penny. household. My mother's come to you when you die, mittee on Archives and Manu- greater quantities than their custo- in the event of war has come right I £5 J million over three years and door was ever open to men on Maggie McGowan!" "Well, all scripts at the University had voted mers can buy. The Common Mar- to the fore of Irish politics again. Indeed few of them could with the delay in getting completed the run. One time she had 10 I can say, Father, those men against the return of the papers to ket's "dear food'' policy is proving Dr. Cruise O'Brien, the Labour find the money if she had houses the corporation will not get men from a Flying Column, did more for Ireland than Ireland. The Archivist at the time fantastically expensive for the Com- Party's spokesman on foreign asked for it, for the poverty out for less than £8 million. DISAPPOINTING TRADE UNION CONGRESS was desperate. One bridal and their bicycles as well; most of the God fearing men stated that it was considered un- munity's big businesses and for the affairs, suggested in the Dail that I know!" Germans in particular, who don't dress and one set of christen- They were only just inside No doubt the corporation was wise to part with "an important the Government was "deliberately rj-'HE debate on "Incomes desperately anxious to keep down concern at the concentration of like subsidising French and Italian wages this coming year. fooled and now the Agency is blam- item in the university's manu- de-emphasising neutrality in order Policy" was the most im- wealth and power arising from the farmers. to prepare the public mind for ing the maintenance strike and the script holdings. These papers have portant item at the Irish Con- There will be a powerful fight growth of monopoly in Ireland and As the Common Market farmers eventual entry into a group of workers in general for not meeting been widely consulted by graduate gress of Trade Unions in Bun- within the Irish trade union move- opposition to "the trend towards are run off the land and become less States with a common foreign the scheduled date for the handing students here doing work in British. doran this year. ment in the next twelve months to monopoly take-overs and mergers." Bing for Zambia BROCKWAY BILL Derry plans politically influential in their policy generally regarded as incom- over of the completed buildings. Irish and American immigration see that this Incomes Policy idea history. The Committee feel that various countries it is only a mat- patible with neutrality." "|yr-R. GEOFFREY BING, the The people of Derry are making People in Britain will know only comes to nothing. And however NEXT SESSION special preparations for the visit of their departure would constitute a ter of time before the E.E.C. The Taoiseach replied: "I think I much some Congress leaders who County Down barrister The Corporation is irrevocably switches over to a "cheap food" too well what "Incomes Policy" is. the "apprentice boys" on August committed to almost all the capital considerable loss." have already indicated that we should know better support the who was thrown out of Ghana T ORD BROCKWAY. who agreed policy like they have in Britain to- They have been having it from the when Nkrumah was toppled by 12th. expenditure. It is made up of have no traditional policy on Wilson Government for four years idea, one can be reasonably certain POINTS SYSTEM some time ago to sponsor a Bill day. neutrality in this country such as that the commonsense ordinary a British imperialist plot, and This is a commemoration of how £2,400,000 for the National Building FURTHER lengthy negotiations now, with numerous incantatory of Rights for the six counties at Agency project; £970,000 for the A LL the signs are. pointing in Sweden, Austria and Switzerland, trade unionist will see it defeated narrowly escaped with his life, the Protestants saved the city from followed and the University slogans in the press—"wage re- aquisition of land—we have good I • ^ that direction. The Common who have declared a permanent in Ireland as it has been within Westminster, has told the "Irish the "papishes" three hundred years announced they were willing to straint," "increases related to pro- NOT WORKING is to go to Zambia. knowledge of where this will go— Market countries will do a contem- policy of neutrality." The Dail, he ductivity," "guiding lights," "per- the British trade union movement. Democrat" that he hopes the Bill ago. have a microfilm of the papers sent porary "repeal of the corn laws" said, would decide in the light of 'pSE Six County Government He has detjied the newspaper re- into the pockets of land specula- centage norm," "freeze and of Rights will now be raised during to Cork. This was done and three within the next four years. If Ire- Why isn't it let be? tors; £525,000 for house purchase the prevailing circumstances, but squeeze." Incomes Policy really PTiHEY will have an ally in this has promised fair allocation ports that he was going to Zambia rolls of microfilm arrived in Cork land goes into the Common Mar- the next session of Parliament. Because it is the means of whip- loans to private persons; and "if there were a war between means holding wages down while year's new President of Con- of council houses as one of its to advise President Kaundra on on St. Patrick's Day, 1969. ket attracted by the lure of high atheistic Communism and our way ping up sectarian feeling and split- £75,000 for supplementary grants. workers produce more. The Gov- gress, Mr. Jimmy Morrow, Six "reforms." It has issued a points how to reform the judiciary. "There would be no time to deal food prices, it will be buying the of life, the Christian way of life, ernment pretends it will also con- County leader of the Amalgamated He is going on a personal visit. ting the people. This ls not enough The Univer- biggest pig-in-a-poke since the scheme for the "consideration" with it in this session," said Lord All this money for one year Is then we would not be neutral." trol profits and dividends, to even Engineering Union. Unlike Mr. The object is to avoid violence sity authorities here should, Treaty. of local authorities, but the He did not deny, however, that if Brockway, "and it would at most just frightening and the City Man- Dr. Noel Browne pointed out that things out between workers and Jimmy Dunne, whom he replaces, whatever the provocations of the through the Minister of External fiddling and the discrimination he was asked his advice he would get only a first reading. We hope ager, Mr. W. MacEvilly, has now capitalists, but this has never been Mr. Morrow is no believer in an In- Affairs, still press for the transfer is still going on as if nothing give it, or that he would take the Orangemen. announced a programme which done anywhere yet. and never can comes Policy because, as he put it it will go further than that after of the original documents to Ire- job if it was offered. A citizens' defence association provides for the estimated capital be done in a capitalist society. within a few hours of his election, had happened since last October the recess, depending on what sup- land and maybe to Cork, where Certainly nobody is better quali- has been formed on the Creggan expenditure of £11,800,000 on hous- "anything like that is a curb and 5th. port we can get." they would belong in the natural DESECRATING DUBLIN fied for such a task than this dis- and Bogside housing estates. ing in a four to five year period. The Six County delegates to the restriction on the work people." way. "JJON'T have any high-speed the pollution which people are try- Here are some cases which the tinguished Irish barrister, born and He confirmed that Mr. Geoffrey Volunteer "guards" are being Congress were violently against an The biggest disappointment of the The Cork Housing Action Com- ing to escape." East Down Civil Rights Association bred ih the County Down, to whom registered who will make it their highways across your Incomes Policy and the Draughts- Congress was the fact that there Bing, Q.C., is advising on drawing mittee, Which was set up through These documents relating to the AFC* sooner had Mr. Udall left the hits been agitating about during the British establishment has country; keep the old twisted men's Union, so often to the fore was no resolution on civil rights in up the Bill of Rights. What will business to discourage retaliation Fenian Brotherhood, came into the * country, having been respect- the past few weeks. They concern taken a mysterious dislike. the efforts of young members of the roads, and limit, if you can, the in defence of the workers' interests, the North. The civil rights cam- go into it will also, of course, be and keep the peace. possession of Jeremiah O'Donovan fully shaken by the hand by some allocation of houses by the East Republican Movement, to expose had a motion to the effect that In- paign was referred to sympatheti- Mr. Bing was for many years influenced by what happens in the Rossa in 1876, when he was elected number of automobiles." Government Ministers (always Down Rural Council—Unionist con- It is an indictment of the six- this and to rescue tenants from comes Policy was unrealistic in a cally in speeches by delegates, but Labour M.P. for Hornchurch, and six counties itself over the next few President of the Brotherhood, and It is advice that goes against the pleased to meet top American poli- trolled. naturally—at Meadowcourt, county Unionist government that eviction, greedy landlords and free enterprise society. the Congress adopted no policy with many a time spoke cm Connolly As- at his death in 1915 they were trend of the times, in Ireland, as ticians) than the Government com- Ardglass, Co. Down. months. such a celebration is allowed. squalid and overcrowded conditions, regard to it. And this even though sociation platforms, since he was a stored in 22 barrels and trunks. It everywhere else, and it comes un- mitted one of its grossest aesthetic met with good success, but the Some of the 26-County trade the Congress was "dominated by An R.U.C. constable, married but friend of the late Mr. Pat Dooley. is important that these letters and expectedly from a citizen of the crimes in years. "Hansard" recorded, during the forces which they opposed were unionists seemed to think, however, the Northerners," as one delegate with no children, who was posted papers, which represents the land of super highways and motor- Mr. Boland, Minister for Local bleak years when there were no people of wealth and power who that if skilled workers had a go-slow put it. It shows again that the to Ardglass at the beginning of the LETTER FROM MR. McCORMAC thoughts, feelings and passions of cars, the U.S.A. It comes from Government, over-ruled a Dublin Nationalists in the House, the regu- used the usual smear campaign in on wage increases the money could main weakness of the civil rights year, has been allocated a four bed- I \EAR Editor—Yes, I always will he was a revolutionary nationalist. the plain people of Ireland at the someone, however, who should Corporation' decision in order to lar questions on every aspect of the an attempt to destroy the Move- pass to the unskilled workers campaign in the North has been its rocm house. A widowed mother and come back when there is a We see revolutionary nationalism time, and who knew they were know what he is talking about, for give permission for the redevelop- maladministration of the six coun- ment. instead. Andy Barr of the Sheet- failure to gain trade union sup- her able-bodied adult son got a at work in many parts of the members of a subject nation, Mr. Stewart Udall, who gave this ment of the sites at the corners of ties from Mr. Bing. He was the word to be said in defence of the Metal Workers and a member of the port. similar house; a serving R.A.F. world today. This is the struggle should be returned to the country advice when he stayed in Ireland Hume Street and St. Stephen's I.C.TU. Executive, told the dele- moving spirit in the Friends of Ire- old cause. What makes Wolfe Tone Hj^HE O'Donovan Rossa Papers are man. who was living in Forces' of peoples to free their countries where they belong. recently as a guest of An Taisce, Green, Dublin. gates this was nonsense. "If land group in the House of Com- one of the darlings of Ireland Ls -*- presently preserved in four married accommodation, was allo- from Imperialist domination. This was U.S. Secretary of the Interior For years a struggle has gone workers in Guinness forego an in- f PHE absence of resolutions oppos- mons in the '40's. that he was a revolutionary. And is the road Connolly has shown us. archival boxes in the Department in the Kennedy and Johnson *- ing the Anglo-Irish .Free Trade cated a three bedroom house; a it is of little consequence that on over these sites. The Green crease, will Guinness then send a single man, whose previous accom- He wrote the famous "Tribune" First national freedom then the of Archives and Manuscripts of the administrations. Property Company, which is con- cheque to some other employer who Agreement is possibly even more pamphlet "John Bull's Other Ire- Pearse spoke at a Home Rule meet- Catholic University of America, REPLY TO surprising. While the delegates and modation was demolished for re- Workers' Republic. He is now president of "Over- trolled by an English firm of pro- cannot afford to pay good wages?" land" Which sold hundreds of thou- ing in O'Connell Street. where they are designated as Col- their wives were enjoying the air development, got a three bedroom And Ireland's road to national new," an American organisation perty developers, wants to demolish he asked. sands of copies. lection D6. at Bundoran another 10 per cent house when smaller houses were freedom is not so complicated as MR. McCORMAC which wants to preserve the coun- eight buildings altogether and It Is known that Mr. Bing was In Ireland nowadays we hear a was lopped off the tariffs on British available; an ex-Army man, mar- some would have us believe. If tryside, and An Taisce had him erect office blocks in their stead; prepared to go up in the recent lot about James Connolly and his These documents give a new in- 'It is still difficult to see what ' PHE big general unions, the exports io Ireland. These are now ried with a small family, who had Britain withdraws all support over in the hope that a man of* The buildings they want to destroy Mid-Ulster by-election. Socialism But there is another side sight into many aspects of Fenian- Mr. McCormac's policy is. It Ls very J- I.T.G.W.U., the Workers' half what they were four years ago; been living in a rented bungalow from the six counties the Irish his standing would be listened to are very beautiful and are part of What a combination, Pitt and of. Connolly we hear nothing about. ism in Ireland and in America obvious that IF Britain withdrew Union of Ireland and the Marine the danger to workers' jobs is be- with all modern facilities, got a people will elect an all-Ireland Par- bv a Government which ls allow- the whole Georgian complex of Bing! Will we ever see it? It is this: like Tone and Pearse, from 1856 to 1915. The papers were all support from the six-county Port Workers, are still smarting coming acute, but the leaders of the lour bedroom house. He had lived liament and in this they will have ing so much of Ireland to be Hume Street-Ely Place, which will originally stored in the O'Donovan Unionist regime Ireland would from the effects of last Spring's Irish trade unions seem oblivious of in the area for less than two years. the backing of the whole socialist despoiled by getr rich-quick develo- inevitably go the same way in time Rossa home in Staten Island, New have a much better chance of get- maintenance workers' dispute. the danger. Too many of them camp and the bigger part of the pers and unthinking tourist wor- once this Initial breach is made. York, and were used by the Rev. ting her freedom. But that doesn't They lost hundreds of thousands seem to have accepted the presump- The Civil- Rights Association con- capitalist one. shippers. JOIN THE CONNOLLY ASSOCIATION William D'Arcy, O.F.M., in his tell us how to bring about that BIG meeting has been held in of pounds at that time in dispute tions of the 26-County Govern- trasts these scandalous misalloca- If a section of the people in the work "The Fenian Movement in the Britain should withdraw that sup- While nobody would wish to A protest, at the Wolfe Tone pay for their members out of work ment's economic policy. tions with the failure to give a FILL IN THIS FORM six counties wants to "fight to the United States, 1858-1886" and pub- port. The word IF doesn't help. If deny Irish people the benefit of Monument, Stephen's Green. Dr. because of craft union picketing. house to a man like Mr. Joe Kear- ~ last man" that is a matter for lished by the Catholic University in ifs and ans were pots and pans . modern technology, I wish you Kevin Nowlan, head of the Dublin They were in sympathy with the They are inveigled onto Govern- ney, who is at present squatting Please send me full particulars of how I can join the ment economic planning commit- them. When I spoke in my last 1947. If I was a millionaire I'd buy a could find ways of developing with- Civil Group, one of the leading Incomes Policy idea because of this with his expectant wife and two Connolly Association. tees, deluding themselves that they letter about people diverting from Rolls-Royce. out the spoliation and destruction conservationist bodies, said: "The rankling feeling towards the craft children in one of the houses at are not losing their independence, Name the struggle for an all-Ireland re- Later Mrs. Eileen McGowan, that we in the United States have Minister has given way to the de- unions. The Draughtsmen's resolu- Meadowcourt. Mr. Kearney is un- public I was referring to the Re- daughter of O'Donovan Rossa, gave Then it Is equally hard to see why velopers without a struggle. HLs tion was lost and a motion was and soon find themselves Justifying employed and has been living up to Address undergone," said Mr. Udall. "We and arguing for Government poli- publicans and Communists and the papers absolutely to Father if it was right for Patrick Pearso grew too fast and we proceeded on town-planners and everyone else passed Instead to set up a commit- now in an unsanitary and un- Socialists who are associated with D'Arcy. Father D'Arcy was an the to advocate Home Rule in O'Con- have been ignored; it is a complete tee to enquire )nto tbe implications cies to their union members. healthy building. He Ls not a Pro- the assumption that a country that Twenty Six County Government the civil rights movement, and completion of his work in 1947, as- nell Street, it is wrong for Tom handover. It would have been much of an Incomes Policy and report testant nor a Unionist like the Cut out and post to 283 Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.I has Industrial success must be a economic policy was seldom more other such ones involving them- signed to a college in Rome, and Mltchel to advocate civil rights in dirty one. with polluted air and more honest of the Minister to have back to the Congress during the others mentioned, however, who open to attuck than it has been w selves in all kinds of protests before he left New York, he gave Newry. If it was right for Tone to said that the whole conservation have been given much better ac- * water and too many buildings in coming year, The general unions this year, but it got by untouched against all kinds of things. These the papers to the Catholic Univer- demand a reform of the franchise idea is dead so far as he Ls con- commodution than they need al- t he wrong place. can dominate Congress by their at the Congress. If you would like to have tho "DEMOCRAT' posted to people profess to be followers of sity of America through his own [his own words) in 1793, why Ls it cerned." strong votes. though their situation Ls much wrong for Republicans to demand it "Conservation is the key to the One well-informed delegate who Tone and Connolly but they have Order, the New York Province of Kevin Boland, the Minister con- better than hLs. you, sand this cut-out with your subscription to : in 1969? 1 tourism of the future," he warned. Setting up a committee is not has been at every Congress for no semblance of a national inde- the Conventual Franciscans. cerned. is not one to listen to pro- The IRISH DEMOCRAT, 283 Grays Inn Rd- London, W.C.I pendence movement. By conserving natural amenities actual support for an Incomes years said that this was the most Similar instances of housing It is very hard to see why Re- "id the best building from the tests, however reasoned. He Ls the Policy, be it noted, though it may disapiwlnting he had attended. Indeed, it is the very absence of man who fought hardest to abolish discrimination are occurring else- with 16/- for a-ycar SI- for six months IT is significant that Father publicans today who protest about past you are not only ensuring an well be considered a step in that Mention should be made of some where in the North these days. The such a movement that made the D'Arcy later said that he had "leal environment for the people P R. last year, whose department direction. But the 26-County Gov-, way clear for the emergence of the bad housing conditions are wrong progressive resolutions that were injustices are in fact sometimes glvon the documents to the Catho- who live in the country, but you are gerrymandered the constituencies In emment and the newspapers com-i passed. One was a motion to Name civil rights movement. And that whereas when Connolly did the worse than they ever were before as lic University because he was sure protecting the very thing that Fianna Fall's Interest before the pletely exaggerated the degree of nationalise the Irish cement in- movement can now be put where same it was right. Is it not pos- Unionist councils, fearing they may Address they would be given excellent care I't-ople In the future will most recent election and who used the trade union support for an Incomes dustry. Another demanded that it rightly belongs—on the garbage sible that Mr. McCormac has not not be long more for this world, and attention in the archives really grasped what the present-day value The world already has most intemperate attacks on his Policy at the Congress. They did foreign companies in Ireland hoap of worn-out novelties. opponents during the campaign. try and do as much for "their there. "Over the years I have re- day national independence move- •'""ugh of industrialisation and the so'because, like the British Govern- should recognise trade union organ- own" as they can while they still (REPLY IN COLUMN FIVE) gretted my decision to let the ment is trying to do?—Editor.) Prawl of the poly-plan growth and (Continued on Page Eight) ment, the Government in Dublin ls ising rights. And another expressed have got the power. 6 THE IRfSH DEMOCRAT Augyst t &fr9 August 1969 England's Gallows Tree THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 7 5iTiBPTIlPH JfLlpwfP, Rttitfl Hiirfnf llll ) Air: The Harp That Once . . . (March time) In memory of James MacCormick and Peter Barnes, hanged on Ash Wednesday. DONAL OG February 7th, 1840, and now at rest in Ireland at last. SPEECHES IN TRAFALGAR SQ. 'TIS long since Father Sheehy gave his life in dark Glonmel, liY Donal Gg, when you sail o'er the water, 'Tis long since Willy Neilson served the cause he loved so well, 'Tis long since Emmet fought and died his native land to free — Whilst we of the Sinn Fein Party Tafce me wWh you t» be your partner. 1. DERRY KELLEHER who have put forward m this con- Bronterre O'Brien and Fergus And still brave men must climb the stair of England's gallows tree. will continue to struggle both text demands for the abolition cf O'Connor. We therefore demand It's at fair and at market you'll be well looked after, North and South against every i-'^HE Sinn Fein Party, on of an undemocratic Press, the radio the border. Despite such incanta- from you your full support and that And you can wed with a Greek king's daughter. When Allen, Larkin and O'Brien their noble lives laid down and other agencies of misinforma- manifestation of the curtailing of tions the border has remained. you no longer excuse yourselves by whose behalf I am speaking the rights of the people, we recog- We swore that from this land we'd ehase the forces of the crown ; tion such a.- the educational Similarly the demands by some to repeating the sophistry of your so- here today, is the party of Irish system. nise that there is no immediate called betters in the Tory Party and My Donal you won't find me lazy But Barry and his comrades died with Ireland still unfree solution for all the political and convert the movement into a class Republicanism. The historical struggle of workers, both Catholic amongst right-wing elements in Like many a high-born expensive lady. And now two more have climbed the stair of England's gallows tree. economic problems in Northern England who admonish us Irish to I*H do your knitting and nurse your baby roots of Sinn Fein reach back to And lest you may have any ling- Ireland short of the withdrawal of and Protestant, against capitalists ering doubts about the position and both Catholic and Protestant, has let bygones be bygones so that they And If you were set OR, I would back you bravely. Brave Peter Barnes faced his foes with calmness on his face, the first Republican Move- British military and financial pro- can more effectively implant the try to fob off your responsibilities tection for the Tory establishment realised no creditable response from And James MacCormich voiced once more the bravery of his race: ment. founded by Irish Protest- now that you have been told and Orange workers. The extreme right iron heel of finance capital on our "Your gibbets and your jails," he cried, "no terrors have for me, represented by the Stormont Gov- necks. I saw you first on a Sunday evening, ants in 1798, with the objective witnessed the facts for yourself on ernment. and the extreme left fall into the Before the Easter, as I was kneeling For Ireland's cause I'll proudly die oft England's gallows tree^" of creaking the political connec- your television screens, let me quote same error of imagining that social OOME years ago at a Connolly the relevant section of the 1920 changes are brought about by the Association Conference where It was of Christ's fraisiWi that I was reading, tion between Ireland and Bri- We would, nevertheless, be very "No crime was ours, we fought the fight 'mong Ireland's ruthless foes, Government of Ireland Act which repetition of slogans and ritualised I acted as a delegate for the Dub- But my eyes were on you and my own heart bleeding. remiss in our duty to our people, incantations rather than by, as Because within young Irish hearts the freedom flame still glows; tain. is effectively the constitution of the lin Wolfe Tone Society, we were State known as Northern Ireland: whether Catholic, Protestant or Dis- William Thompson put it, "ripe asked by a large audience ranging God bless our land, God bless the men who'll fight and die as we, senter, if we did not give immediate W«ll, Mack as the sloe is the heart inside me ; The first Republican movement, material conditions." from Liberals to Communists, what In dungeon dark, in war's red rout, or on the gallows tree." attention to their day to day needs. the Irish themselves were in fact Black as cool is the grief that dri ves me; to which I have referred, was Sinn Fein, therefore believe, on "Notwithstanding the establish- In such matters there is no simple doing in this matter. Black as the footpHnt in shining hallway, knox'n as the United Irishmen be- the master of civil rights, that we The foeman's fear, the foeman's hate have swept their lives away, ment of the Parliament of Northern solution, and political sectarianism, And it was you that blackened it ever and alway. cause it called for a unity of Ireland ... the supreme authority or all or nothing approaches to the should have unity on as broad a Now the volcano of Irish popular And slaves in Ireland help that foe to hound the I.R.A.; Irishmen of all denominations and of the Parliament of the United problem, such as are advocated by front as possible until immediate opinion has erupted. Now you havp Coercion stalks the Irish land 'Gainst all who'd set her free, both the extreme left and extreme objectives are achieved. In this we your answer. Now I ask you to show For you took what's before me and what's behind me. refused to have the people of Ire- Kingdom shall remain unaffected Above her looms the shadow dafk of England's gallows tree. land distinguished by the sectarian and undiminished over all persons, right wing of Irish political opinion will join forces, without surrender- your credentials. I feel confident You took East and West when you wouldn't mind me. categories of either Catholic, Pro- matters and things in Northern could well do irreparable damage to ing our identity or one iota of our that you will rise as men to the demands for a sovereign, indepen- occasion to demand from our im- Sun and moon front ltty sky you've taken, But raise your hearts! for martyrs' blood was never shed in vain; testant nor Dissenter. It drew its Ireland and every part thereof." the civil rights movement in Nor- And God as well or I'm mueh mistaken. thern Ireland. dent. 32-county Irish Republic, with perialist masters the rights which The Day will dawn, the Gall will come, and men will march again! inspiration from the ideals of the anyone who honestly agrees on we have been too long denied and The free Republic, proud and strong* from shore to shore we'll see — great French Revolution of 1789 of ^ITOIS means that whenever an at- This political sectarianism is re- certain proximate issues. in the process of so doing secure The true revenge for all who died On England's gallows tree! Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, tack is made upon the person flected in the approach of those In this we do not turn our back more firmly the rights won by the BRIAN NA BANBAN and in particular from- that great of any resident, of Northern Ireland who on the one hand regard the on any Englishman of goodwill but British working class aided by your Englishman Thomas Paine when it whilst he is demanding basic civil rights movement as being we will say to the English working Irish class brothers in this country. put forward its demand for The human rights and justice and when itself the social revolution and on class that you must surely freely It is fitting therefore that I Rights of Man in Ireland. It was the Special Powers Act is invoked the other by those who regard it as acknowledge your indebtedness to THf BLACK AND TAN GUN in discrimination against political the direct expression of the move- should bring this address to you to THE MEN OF THE WEST the first ecumenical movement per- the great emancipatory movement a close with the words of the father CIVIL WAR parties that Britain violates the ment for national independence for (Continued from Page Three) haps in a world driven by religious of Irish Republicanism which be- of Irish Republicanism, Theobald YlfHtLE we honour in song and in The true men a near and afar, universal declaration on human opportunists and other unworthy gan in Ireland in the 1790's and WAS down in the town of old Bantry Don't underestimate its power. and sectarian hate and was also Wolfe Tone to the Irish Catholics And history can tell how we routed rights which was adopted by the motives. which provided the constitutional of 1798: "We wish our animosities T Where most of the fighting was done, story Above all don't underestimate its the first great movement for civil United Nations in December 1948 The names of our patriot men, The redcoats through old basis for the great Chartist move- to be buried with the bones of our 'Twas there that a young Irish soldier duplicity. rights, including Catholic emanci- and signed with due solemnity by iriTHE opportunists, in the latter Whose valour has covered with glory Castlebar. ment. ancestors so that we may unite to- Was shot by a Black and Tan gun, The favourite method is to use pation. the Government of the United Full many a mountain and glen, Chorus. -*- category, number Mr. Neil It also provided the leadership of gether and claim the Rights of the work, militancy and sacrifice of Kingdom. Forgot not th« boys of the heather, Blaney, of the Southern Tory Party this movement in the personages of Man." And pledge me, "The stout sons of the revolutionaries to make changes r As he raised himself up on his elbow, Who marshalled their bravest and ' I TOE English Government, follovv- France," boys, it wants itself. Thus a Commission As the blood from his wounds It ran red, best, ing the policies of divide and Bold Humbert and all his brave has been sitting for the purpose of He turned to his comrades beside him When Eire was broken in Wexford, men, conquer, has done its damnedest And looked for revenge to the fusing local authorities into larger down the years to stifle the effects And these are the words that he said: Whose tramp, like the trumpet of units so as to deprive the people West. battle of the emancipatory principles of of their say in municipal affairs Brought hope to the drooping Irish Republicanism. It first en- 2. ANDREW BARR "Won't you bury me out on the mountain and put local government under bi 8 IRISH DEMOCRAT August 1969 TRANSPORT Bill of Rights demanded Big march in UNION in Birming'm (Continued from Page One) /~\N July 13th over three hundred But it was not just a matter of people supported by three pipe leaving these issues to the people in London bands held a Civil Rights march who suffer from them. All who round the city. Labour and democratic move- were interested in democracy A COLOURFUL parade of people in their struggle against This was arranged at the con- should aid in the winning of ele- Northern Ireland Unionism. ment, we guarantee to those several hundred Irish struggling for their rights in the ference held some time ago when mentary democratic rights for all. These victories show the way to it was decided to hold demonstra- people followed by British trade even greater advances in the six counties that they will never unionists marched in intense be left to fight alone. tions in the principle cities around! SUPPORTED future. the twelfth of July. heat from Hyde Park to Tra- We reject all talk of divisions We pledge ourselves to continue The resolution was supported by our campaign until we have won the Union Executive and the Gen- falgar Square on Sunday, July and defeat as not in accordance Organisers of the march were the 13th. with the facts of the situation. from the British Government a Birmingham Committee for Sociar eral Secretary, Mr. Jack Jones, who Bill of Rights amending the Gov- They heard Sean Redmond, The key to further progress is Justice in Northern Ireland, one of made a speech in its support. The ernment of Ireland Act that will General Secretary of the Connolly the strengthening of unity in the the most vigorous such committees resolution was also supported by give the people of the six coun- Association, propose a resolution movement and its extension to in Britain. the Northern Ireland delegation, ties the degree of democracy calling on the British Government even wider sections. which included Mr. Malachy Gray, necessary to enable them to shape to introduce a "Bill of Rights" at On behalf of the Irish in A meeting followed at the Bir- who was chairman of the Standing their own destiny as Irishmen. Westminster to amend the Gov- Britain and their friends in the mingham Irish centre, and a tele- Orders Committee; . Mr. Andrew gram was sent to Mr. Harold Wil- Holmes, of the Northern Ireland ernment of Ireland Act (Northern Ireland's so-called constitution) son calling on him to use the Gov- Labour Party, and Mr. Sean Mor- ernment's full legal powers to rissey, who was interned for his and guarantee democracy in that area. assure full civil rights for the Reublican activities a few years Terrible danger faces people of Northern Ireland. ago. The meeting was addressed by Derry Kelleher of Dublin "Sinn Fein, The speakers included Me. Wal- The resolution ran as follows: and by Andrew Barr, the leading lace Lawter, Birmingham's first six-county Trade Unionist who Liberal M.P. in eighty-five years "That this conference declares spoke to a personal capacity. Derry on August 12th its support for the extension of and Mr. Ivan Cooper, the M.P. for The speeches of these visitors mid-Berry. civil rights to all citizens of the from Ireland are reported in full /~)N August 12th ten thousand sectarian issue'' if they object to United Kingdom and the imple- on page seven of this issue of the " black" men threaten to having added to discrimination in mentation of the principle of 'one jobs and housing and the siting of "Irish Democrat." descend on Derry City. man one vote' in Northern Ire- : A MONG the other speakers were industry,, a selection of music froi land." Mr. Ken Grahame of the Their appearance in Derry, where "kick the Pope" bands playing tarian melodies. PICKETS It was carried without dissent. Campaign for Democracy in Ulster, the people have been tried beyond % Mr. Jack Rusca of the Wood- Before the conference took place endurance by sectarian strife, is a It is like the position in England. workers' Union, who spoke in a blatant and shocking provocation. a number of meknbers from the personal capacity, Mr, Joseph If you object to the Conservatives ON ULSTER Liveifool branch of the Connolly Deighan, of the Connolly Associa- It is a strange commentary on you are "raising political issues." Association visited Douglas and dis- tion, and Mr. Robert Rossiter. the category of "double-think" that This festival of hatred and tributed literature explaining the The chair was taken by Mr. whenever a nationalist gets up to bigotry must be called off. OFFICE facts of the situation in the six; lond Greaves, Editor of the protest against the existing discri- counties. i Democrat." - gk mination against Catholics he is It is a provocation of the people jg OILING water, bottles and The resolution whfln was passed told. "You are raising sectarian of Derry. These include4?*Mr. Patrick Muc- other missiles were thrown with six dissentients, who happened issues." HOULD it take place, then ever) from a building adjoining the Laughlin, Mr. Brian Stovyell, the to be members of the "British Na- new Secretary, and Mr. Desmond A LITTLE more attention might S well-wisher of the Irish people Ulster office when a picket tional Party" who happened to be will urge the people to treat It Greaves from London. in the Square, ran as follows:— ' be paid to the double-thinkers stood outside it in support of if they raised their voices against with distant contempt and not yield "E Irtoh and other workers to tor provocations in the Slightest a number of members of the Orange hate-festivals that are N.I.C.R.A. who had organised "Britain hail with Joy the organised every year. . important victories won by the Anybody who goes from a "sit-in" and chained them- DESECRATING These are not Protestant reli- or Scotland and does the sll selves to the tables. Nothing gious services. They are public thing, fey word, or deed, that is In was thrown from the Ulster demonstrations of crude secetarian the MMilast way calculated to pro- DUBLIN bias. But of course a Catholic who office itself. mote vlolenoe or disorder Is a • if The twelfth objects to them is "raising the sec- A number of members of the (Continued from Pan One) sooundrM. He should bo drummed tarian qiiqsttm,'^; . Connolly Association, which took out of decent society.' ^ with the Arm of "Not raying the sectarian ques- part to the event, wet by the Wm . if • water, which was however, fortu- and --•( > tion" means ,leaving the Unionists . In the meantime a hundred La- rpEN THOUSAND of Liverpool's and their hangers-on to denounce bour Members of Parliament have nately net still boiling-when it -*- Orangemen having gone off to "Popery" and glory in a war that responded to the appeal M Mr. reached them. --'^V \ look at They are part of that 1, per Southport; for the weekend, there brought a Protestant Parliament to Gerard Fitfc to try to g&' Home The protest was against the pro- • cent of the DoJ»H» area which were no disturbances when the to persecute the Irish people instead Office observers to Derry to< see vocations to the six counties with 1 should be preserved if any of t6e Connolly Association held a meet- of a Catholic king. what happens. If the Home Office special reference to the death of character of the Dublin of the past ing at the Pier Head to protest The Catholics do not organise declines to do its duty, a number Mr. McCloskey (see Wont Page) ; to to survive at an for future against the whipping up of sec- "hate the Protestants" parades. H of M.P.s will go themselves. The London brtfeob of the ^ generations of DuhUners. If this tarian feelings and to denjand civil they did they would be as blame- This is not a civil rights march, Northern Inland Oivil Rights Asso- rights for the people of Northern breach is made many think the worthy (as the Orangemen. And but a bigots' march, it must pot ciation Which took the initiative In fight to preserve anything rise will Ireland. " the "Irish Democrat" would criti- be allowed to put into the Unlgnist' organisation of ttNT-fKotest is not be totally useless. The speakers included Mr. cise them hands weapons with which to put the same thing- aa (he London Anthony Coughkn, of Dublto, and Catholics are said to "raise the the clock back. "Solidarity" . ^ntrEMiNWHIliE theDublin Housing Mr, McClelland of the Liverpool Action Committee has moved Trades Council, which was officially ttiee families into one of the bufld- supporting the demonstration. . , J • togs to be' demolished, as they do There was' a large and attentive^ (Continued v not want sound living accommoda- gathering, the chair being taken by from Page One) tion to be knocked down while there Mr. John McClelland of the Con- are thousands homeless. nolly Association. were incitement to set one side A boy of eighteen who was help- promised to help to protect then:. It is understood that around the against tha other." ing one of these families to move The family, while appreciative of There Is plenty of fight to the same time there was also a demon- their furniture was beaten up so this action, felt that the extreme • Bousing Action Committee and the stration in Glasgow. This frank and courageous speak- badly that he could not walk. It element was too lawless and that preservationists, but ttny -b&ve a ing by an internationally famous is alleged that the police did the R.U.C. would not be yelled upon tough nut to crack in Mr. Kevin theatrical figure was not given nothing. to help them if it became necessary. V prominence on the British press. Ci'ltoland. it, Donations to C.A. A petition was circulated round This is the state of afTairs in The British people are not allowed some Protestant areas asking" if the six counties that is being f*- -v to know that the shocking scenes they were willing to set Catholic allowed to develop as a result of to Derry and other places arose be- houses on Are as was done in thd inactivity of Premier Wilson of News WESTBOURNE PARK Y.C.L. cause they were provoked by the 1920-1922. the British "Labour" Government The former organiser of the Con- 18s. 9d, C. Longmore £1, Orangemen's annual festival of Mr. Wilson will be responsible f nolly Association, Mr. Anthony Wembley No. 3 AJtP. 10s., J. Pat- hate. They were not told that The British people . are not ooftghlan. now settled to Dublin tan 5s., AJ3.P.O. Hariesden £3, Bob prominent Protestants deplore this allowed to know that either. He is thTrtlme'M^ter. He is for nearly a decade, has been to Falriey 10s., Mr. OMalley 2s., E.M.L periodical display of bigotry. They are being stuffed with the the boss. .. ' London meeting aid friends. Sean Shop Stewards' Committee £1, D. |HpHE ugly developments include idea that the drive to Civil War He has been -warned. He has has been doing exactly Murphy £1, Clapham Branch some very alarming things. oomes from the olvlt rights organ- been told, " to Dtttiln. He will be AJUT./£1, A. Coughlan £6, Mr. & Thus four Catholic families were isers who have repeatedly suited representing the Association at the Mrs. Gardner £6, P. OTDonoghue driven from their houses by that they do not want violence Tp VEN now there is time for him ,na hfireann Bailee paiade 6s., B. CiuBkey 2s. 8d., D. Murphy Protestant neighbours in the Old On the contrary It is the Orange JJ to act. He .should announce '•"' on August 2nd at Seen 10s„ A Lawless 3s. 84 Park and Crumlin Road area. extremists who are ready to risk that In the rjext session of Parlia- Station, 7.30 p.m. civil war. They think that they ment a Bill of Rights will be passed * w * would win. They think they could guaranteeing democracy In the six : cow the Catholics and split and counties, and that the Unionists ii**ft*tf*£ ritfMBK-r rt' ' '>•' • * South London branch of the Isolate the democrats in the Protest- have got to operate It. Copnolly Association have not, yet 37 ARRESTS AT ENISKILLEN ant camp. hit the hundred, so Peter WopMn's He should announce at once a An example of this kind of think- large sum of money, for example prize has not been paid out Now ing was given by Mr. Ian Paisley c that an iatatjsive drive ffr new WEEKEND IN PRISON fifty million pounds, to create work when he threatened to "occupy" the in areas west of the Bann, the ex- { memters has been initiated by 90 per cent CathoHc town of Newry £ Eamon MacManus it should not be I RESPITE the fact that they ing their ground against official penditure being supervised by the U are backing an Orange in- tvr:mntyrannvy wh,>rwhent thethevy h!uha1d nnnof t ft a with his supporters from outside. British Home Office, and it being ;. long before the target is reached. united movement behind them, pro- afhat is that but deliberate pro- The South London Branch is vasion of Derry. on August 12th, an absolute condition that there vides no excuse for the original voking of trouble? should be no religious discriminn- organising one of Its famoua coach the Unionists arrested 37 young official action of banning the meet- tion but only need dictating i< - trips on Sunday, September 21st. people who tried to hold a ing or holding them for four days TTJ8T before the twelfth celebra- application. - »,. Destination Littlehampton. To without trial. '' tiom began there was an at- sure of "a ticket write Pat meeting at Ennisklllen on Other sums should be provided tempt to burn down the parochial later. It will odly be part of the •91 Fairoak Drive, S.E.9. Saturday, July 26th. The London 'Times' makes much hall at the Catholic Churcli at money England robbed off Ireland They were held in prison over of the fact that a demonstration Mulavilly, Co. Armagh, In the past, or Indeed for tha' Prinlefl iv, Ripley Printers Ltd., the Weekend, a shocking piece of outside Crumlln Road jail attracted But In the case of the Cunning- matter Is doing now. (•K»)r!«>tttogham Rd„ Ripley, police barbarism. only twenty people. hams who left the Ardoyne district And as a matter ot urgency the Derfays, and* published by Oan- after threats that they would be big Orange display lp Derry oi nolly Publications Ltd, at 383 The fact that the young people Don't worry. They haven't heard shot, a number of Protestants' August 12th should be CALLED Grays Inn Road, London, W.C.I. had made the old mistake of stand- the last of Civil Rights. families asked them to return and OFT.