Captain O'Neill challenges Lemass for recognition of six-county puppet state 'PROGRESSIVE' UNIONIST SHOWS WE CHALLENGE HIS HORNS IRISH 9 D. CAPTAIN DEMOCRAT No. 266 November 1966 O'NEILL Angry farmers invade Dublin GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT! Britain pipes, you only dance Snubbed by Mr. Haughey THE Connolly Association has written to Captain Terence O'Neill, THE 10,800 farmers who walked through the city on October 19th were a deeply impressive gathering and the people of Dublin • the Stormont Premier, challenging statements which he made to who watched them were sympathetic. the North Antrim Unionist Association in a speech on October 19th. Hundreds- of them had been on toe road for over a week, walking In this speech he demanded that twenty-six counties all the way from their local towns alter its constitution so as to recognise die permanence and villages in a demonstration of partition. The present Leinster House Conatitulkm organised by the National Farmers Association. Weather-beaten, tough, claims legitimate jurisdiction over the thirty - two : r good-humoured, they had not come counties. up to Dublin, for tun to walk Last month the "Irish Demo- through Ireland'* capital on a cold, sleety day. The West Cork contin- crat" was the only newspaper to gent had in fact come all tte2» SECTARIAN foreshadaw the demand now be- miles from Bantry Town ing made, and this new move, ^^^^^^^^^^ out ten reported extensively in the MURDERERS "Irish PtesS," lends t<> the suggestion that a The farmers of the country, hun- • jfp^j?*. JC ,-„ . ^ dreds of thousands of the plain .... people of Ireland, want a fair deal Government has already HE Jury rejected the j made. (Continued on Pa» Eight) T case that the kitted Belfast It will be remembered that Le- were guilty of capital murder. mass cold-shouldered Mr. Mc- Ateer's suggestion that representa- If they had been convicted of this tives of the six counties should sit Gerry Fitt they would have swung. on the committee that has been sei Bat they convicted them of non- up to wreck What little RepubHcjuo- capital murder which carries a sen- ism survives In the southern con- warns Britain tence of imprisonment for life. stitution. The judge, Lord MacDennott, told Mr. O'Neill claims that tfee lre- DUBUN THEATRE IN DANGER the men, "Ton have been frand guilty land Act of 1949 guarantees the six at Manchester county constitutional position v j Although the Gaiety has been saved by the public spirit of of the brutal, cowardly and cold- blooded murder of Pete Ward." against interference from Britain. r "IF something is not done about Eamonn Andrews, the Queen's is still up for sale by English the mlsgovernment of Northern The Association's reply refutes this estate agents. He urged that they should not be Ireland within the lifetime of this let out for twenty year*. (Continued on Page Parttament, Mien I warn the Gov eminent that there will be Irish % reedy te draw the conclu- sion that they should attempt their salvation by whatever means Is DEMOCRAT CALLS IMPORTANT CONFERENCE Wt within their power." •'la There will be no resolution unless This warning to Britain was INVITATIONS are shortly to 1 it is obvious that there is substan- issued by Mr. Gerry Pitt, MP., go out to organisations and tial agreement among all present. when he addressed a meeting called individuals to participate in FOR JANUARY While in general it is expected by the Manchester branch of the what may prove a historic con- bock, Dr. Michael Winstanley Francis, Cahir Healy (EnnishU- Connolly Association in the Chorl- that the invitations will be taken ference. It will take plate on up by the working-class movement, (Liberal), Frank Allaun, Norman len), Alex Kitson. Ethel Mannin, ton Town Hall on Sunday, October January 21ct, 1967, at the Con* Atkinson, Alan Beaney, George Professor A. G. Morton, Mm 8th. they will not be confined to Labour way Hall, Red Lion Square, organisations. The list of sponsors Oraddock, Alice Cullen, James Platts Mills, Profeesor & IHnjiai. He also warned against the wide- London, W.0.1, a Saturday Includes Members of Parliament of Dickens, Andrew Faulds, Will Elizabeth Sinclair (Belfast), spread belief that Oaptaln Terenoe afternoon to that delegates from Griffiths, Eric Heffer, Joan Lec- fessor George Thomson, Hon O'Neill was a "progressive" Union- three political parties, and indivi- the provinces can attend. duals from varied walks of life. tor, Leslie Lever, Arthur Lewis, Whitely. ist O'Neill differed In no way from Marcus Lipton, Michael McGulre, <r i tt -tr PeMey* elms, but he preferred Its aim Is to explore the possi- •k -to -to rPHOSE who have signified their K. McNamara, W. Molloy, Chris- A LL the ladies and gentlemen more sophisticated methods. "I ex- bilities of agreement on the main topher Norwood, Maurice Or bach, > P pert absolutely nothing from heads of a democratic progressive support for the conference are who have signified their ap- as follows:— Stanley Orme, Ivor Richard, proval of the objects of the eco- Unionists of any kind/' said Mr. policy on the Irish question that Joan Ryan, Julius Silverman, Ben PHI might serve as a rough guide to House of Lords: Lord Brock way; ference have done so in their p*r- Whltaker, Victor Yates (Labour). sonal capacities, and their Other speecties appear on page all interested parties. House of Commonsi Gerard Fitt 10 eight. Nothing is to be Imposed. (Labour Republican), Eric Lub- Others: Mark Dlgnam, Harry no way commits the to which they belong. Fresh messages of WEST LONDON CONFERENCE arriving by poet and M published In futurree iseuee of the Irish men and women, ##• "Irish Di 'The Irish Workers in the Invitations are to be sent to aB bona-flde Irish political organisa- DEFEND YOUR Freeze" tions in Britain, as well as to r«sentatives of radical JOBS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16th in Britain, and observers from In- 8 p.m. land will be invited The merely and HAMMERSMITH TOWN HALL policy but arill possibilities of the cetaHcn af Speakers: Irish question on « WAGES! basts. MICHAEL COOLEY JOHN HOSTETTLER Though its conclusions will Mud AN "IRISH DEMOCRAT" CONFERENCE JOHN GOULD nobody it is hoped that they will help to illuminate many. Lief SMil 2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT November 1966 November 1966 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT 3 Union doubts enquiry on WORLD COMMENTARY Tailors Hall appeal launched IRISH by PAT DEVINE ^"HE "Irish Democrat" is happy "Back Lane Parliament"—an assem - Hugh Craigg,- wardens, 1784." A 'bogus self-employment' bly of 244 delegates representing the small "musicians gallery" opening DEMOCRAT r which the nineteenth-century In- to reproduce the following Catholics of each of the counties off a first-floor room has a curved " pHE National Federation of Editor : 1 BuMing Trade Operatives is dustrial Revolution never knew. We appeal from Miss Maire Comer- and 40 of the chief towns of Ireland iron railing. The staircase of Jaco- C. DESMOND GREAVES —which came together in the - bean type is built in a separate wing aailing tar a Government eMQuiry are the party of change. We seek IRELAND IS STILL THE BLUEPRINT ford :— Tailors Hall in December, 1792, to at the back and goes down to base- into the construction industry to not to conserve but to transform demand Catholic emancipation. 'ment level. It is possible that this make it more efficient and pCMUc- society.' We are taking his words Associate Editor: \ SIGNIFICANT year, indeed, trampled upon in July, and the literally and to heart. ciple of self-determination! they'd rather let Ian Smith get Tone has left us a racy account of < basement was at one time the tivtt,' staled G Mrge LoWtWan, SEAN REDMOND is 1966. Fifty years after smash-up of the Empire in August." The Tory conference shows how away with it. It has been decided to the proceedings of that "parlia- ground-floor level. On the exterior general secretary of the Amalga- "The need for a Geddes-type in- Ireland's Easter Rebellion Ireland, however, like the African history repeats itself. launch an appeal for funds and for ment" which had met in the teeth the seven dormer windows give a mated Union of Building Trade states, was too precious to be sur- It required subtlety and ingenuity quiry is desperate—the construction 374 Grays Inn Road, against imperialism, it is now to get Lord Salisbury and Duncan voluntary help to restore this his- of violent opposition from Dublin rhythm to the upper part of the ele- Workers recently. He was at rendered easily. Carson and Craigavon, the dyed- industry produced over £3,000 mil- London, W.C.1 generally recognised the world Sandys from rocking the boat by Casfcle and from vested interests vation and the four high arched Bournemouth addressing this year's in-the-wool Ulster sectarians, in toric building. The Tailors Guild of lion worth of work last year—we are over, that peoples and nations Sir Edward Carson, later to be- thvat linrit the whole country, windows with the smaller rectangu- N.F.B.T.O. annual school. 1913, were prepared to sell out to persisting on a vote. But Maudling Saint John tlse-fiapttst Idas -Insti- not dealing with an insignificant are entitled to freedom, inde- come Lord Chief Justice of Britain, and Heath managed it. No-one at otfted- to oppose the rising demand lar windows and unusual main en- contribution to our national wel- * By post 12/- a year the Kaiser in order to thwart the tuted by chart*r4n-44tt*Md m& its a notorious anti-Home Ruler, in a the conference could have been -for dtfeholic emancipation and re- trance make an interesting compo- fare, but to my mind the most im- pendence and national sover- aspirations of the Irish people for Speaking on the future of the speech to the Ulster Volunteers on fooled by the charade.