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Emigrants' Centre Proposed A D E T A I L E D discussion on the post-war fu tu re cf Ireland,

introduced by a constructive survey given by Mr. Desmond Greaves, Secretary of the Connolly Association, was one of the high-lights at the spirited fifth Annua l Conference of the Connolly Association, held in the Allenby Services Club, London, on October 14th and lEth.

Other important speeches included a repor t on current developments in Northern Ireland given by Mr. Michael Mclnerney, founder of the Connolly Association, and a critical estimate of Irish censorship voiced by Mr. P a t Dooley.

G e n e r a l Sir H u b e r t G o u g h , P r e s i d e n t of t h e C o m m o n w e a l t h I i ish A s s o c i a t i o n , w a s a d i s t i n g u i s h e d v i s i t o r , a n d g r e e t i n g s w e r e r e c e i v e d f r o m m a n y n o t a b l e I r i sh m e n a n d w o m e n w h o w e r e u n a b l e t o a t t e n d t h e C o n f e r e n c e . I n c l u d e d a m o n g t he se w e r e J a m e s L a r k m , J n r . , M i s s D o r o t h y M a c a r d l e , M r . J o h n I r e l a n d , C a p t a i n P e a d a r C o w a n ( L e a d e r of the n e w l y - e s t a b l i s h e d D u b l i n o r g a n i s a t i o n , " V a n g u a r d " ) a n d M r . P . M u s g r o v e ( f o r m e r E d i t o r of " I r i s h F r e e d o m " )

Stressing the role of Ireland in helping to shape the form of the post-

MR. DESMOND G R E A V E S , Gen . Secretary of the Connolly Association, speaking at the Association's Conference held recently in London

v.ar world. Mr. Desmond Greaves, presenting the main report, empha-sised the grea t opportunities for small nations. "A small nation," he said, "need no longer be mesmerised by its ielation to one single great nation, but can appea l to an in ternat ional authority. This is a great step for-ward. It means that balance of powers is abolished, and that we can look fo rward to many years of peace and securi ty." The Irish people, whether at home or in emigration to Britain, would range themselves on t h e side of d e m o c r a c y .

WORK FOR IRISHMEN HERE U X P R E S S I N G the belief tha t there

J would be a great need for Irish workers in Br i t i sh industry for many years lo come, especially in the building trade. Mr. Greaves emphasised the desirability t ha t increased educational facilities should be m a d e available to them.

The growing influence of the Connolly Association in Br i ta in was indicated in Mr. G r e a v e s announcement t ha t the Association was planning to open a social and educat ional centre in London to meet the needs of its many members.

The Association would work with all o ther I r ish organisat ions in Britain to secure fair play for demobilised Ir ish Ser-vlcement, a square deal for the industr ial workers, bet ter educational and cultural facilities and improved billeting arrange-ments .

Analysing the military defeat of Fascism now taking place on a world scale, Mr. Greaves said: "The inventors of total war have involved themselves in total disaster. They have been driven from most of the terri tory which they formerly occupied, and in which they have practised the most revolting cruelties, and are now reduced lo f ight ing a last desperate action on the crumbling walls of the Reich. The Nazis

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Kerins Sentenced to Death

' T H E .rial of J - the charue

C'haries Kcr.:> Tralee. on >: 'he ifftrder o: Dei. Serst.

O'Brien, or, Sept. 9:h. 1942. was held in Dublin. The case for the prosecution was that Kerins' fingerprints had bt-.-n fo.und on the bicycle left near the spot the murder and that accused had associated with a man called Liam Burke, whose fiagt-rpriats were also on the bicycle.

The prosecution stated thai the murder had been organised bv the I.R A . and that accused was Deputy Chie.' of Staff of that organisation. Letters were produced in court purporting to come from the Chief of Staff and addressed to ' Cathall t Charles i.

Kerins. who refused to recognise the juris-diction of the Court, objected to the evidence as being purely circumstantial and de-

I manded a fair trial. He inferred that the Special Criminal Court set up bv Act in 1939 did not give him the opportunity of stating his ca.se.

The Court found Kerins guilty and when he was asked if he desired to say anything he replied: All I can say is that if the Free State Authorities are satisfied that I got a fair trial here I hope their consciences are clear on that point. If this is an example of De Valera's justice, freedom and democ-racy, then I would like to know what dicta-torship and militarism are. That is about all I have to say."

Notice of appeal was lodced against the sentence on October 14th bu- was refused and the execution by hanging ua.s fixed for Oct. 31st.

It Is understood tha ' mar.' representa-tions havf been made both in Britain and Ireland urging tha t a reprieve be granted.

DISCRIMINATION V SCANDALOUS story of religious victimi-

sation comes from Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A man named Cassidy, an ex-soldier discharged because of wounds, applied for a Job to the local Board of Guardians but despite the fact that he was recommended by the local branch of the British Legion and by other reputable organisations, the Council turned down his application.

The Board has a Unionist majority and ha^ given the position to another man who happens to be a Protestant.

£21-15-0 / Vl'R earnest appeal

is bearing fruit. for financial s u p p o r t lus| in lime 1 1 catch

last month's issue was t !0 7s. ?d. collected by A. Hall and his friend-- at a meeting in Norfolk.

Not to be outdone. T. Halle* on a build ing site at I.akenhcalh 'ends tfi. This proves what ( AN be done by organised work. If the shop stewards in the factories will please follow the example of the building stewards. «e are confident of similar resulls.

Start n">w for a bumper collection in No-vember !

We thank the following for their dona-tions: II. MePadden, Coventry. 5 -; J. Flana-gan £ 1-1-0; Gerwy 2 -: A llall per s,ru|-thorpe Meeting. -ClO-T-fi; Bill* F-ir, liitming ham, 15/6; Michael Vawnley. Rugby, 2 -; Miss Foster, Pontefraet. 6 3; Phil. B. 6/«; J J. Conran, 2/6; Petty Officer J. Murphy 5/-; G. Kenny, Rugby. 10 -; Miss Rice 2,6; T. FTatley per Wimpeys. I.akenheath, £6: Molly 5/-; Miss Grey. 10/-; Coventry. J. Freshwater, 2/-; L. Lowther, 6/-; Fte. L. Bates, Southampton, 6 .—Total £21 15-0.

Grand Club in Northampton

T H E St. Patricks' Irish Club. Northampton. -L is one of the mast enterprising in the

country. It has a membership of some 500 men from all parts of Ireland and has Ceilidhs on Wednesdays and Fridays. Satur-days and Sundays. The Club has a first-class canteen, it is open every night for games, reading, writing. Boxing, darts. Gae-lic football, hurling and Camogie enthusi-asts arc well catered for.

The Secretary of the Club. John O'Sulli-van, is a Drogheda man, well-known in Gaelic circles. Before coming to England he was Secretary-Trainer of the famous St. Magdelines' Club. Drogheda. and a member of Co. Board of the Louth G.A.A He is also well-known in Trade Union circles, hav-ing been President of his own Union at the age of 21. He was a member of the Trades Council and Treasurer of the Balbriggan Labour Party. He is now a member of the Executive Council of the G.A.A. in Britain.

The Spiritual Director of the Club is the Rev. Fr. James Galvin. a native of Co. Cork.

Northampton Gaels are 'o be congratu-lated on their imitative. Such Irish clubs

be wl-Ico.tic in ail the important areas in Britain.

TRIBUTE TO A GAEL

I^RI ENDS oi Joseph Fowler, well-known

- London Gael, held a mcst enjoyable Ceilidh at the Hammersmith Gaelic League Rooms on Saturday. Oct. 21st. Irish dances, songs and recitations were a feature.

.Mr. Eamon Hawes paid tribute to the great work that Mr. Fowler had done for the Irish in Britain and for the cause of Ireland as a whole. Joseph Fowler, he said, ranked with all that were greatest in the long line of Irishmen struggling for the advance of their country.

The object of the function was to mark the appreciation of London Gaels by a suit-able presentation to Mr. Fowler who is now resident In Dublin. £21 was collected.

I r i s h m e n will g e t Pens ions

IIUSH EX-SERVICE PENSION-

JRISH Ex-service-men will get their pen-sions at the same rates as all others in

the Eritish Army, said Sir W. Wormersley, the Minister of Pensions, replying to the de-putation which waited upon him from the Commonwealth Irish Association.

Royal Warrants, said the Minister, and other Orders administered by the Depart-ment are applicable to disabled ex-service men in Eire in precisely the same wa" as to those resident in Great Britain.

So far as pensions are concerned these will be awarded at the same rates a:.d as-sessed on the same basis as in Great Britain and payment will be made by the same simple method of weekly orders to be cashed at the Post Office.

With regard to medical treatment, the Ministry will do everything in its power to ensure that pensioners in Eire receive the best attention it is practicable to provide for their service disabilities. The Ministry has at present a hospital at LeoparcLs'.own Park which is maintained solely for the benefit of war pensioners, and which is at present adequate to meet the demands for treatment: arrangements also exist for the reservation of a number of hospital beds in Cork for the use of pensioners. If additional provision should prove necessary, the Min-istry would take steps to Increase the amount of accommodation available.

All possible action will be taken to meet even such difficult cases as those of facto-maxillarv injuries. It may perhaps be well to mention also that special arrangements are in existence and will be developed as necessary for the supply and upkeep o:' arti-ficial limbs and appliances.

The deputation consisted of Gen. Sir Hu-bert Gough, Col. Gelstone-Atkins ami Mr. Leo O'Connor.

S T A M P S "TRISH FREEDOM" and the C'on-

J- nolly Association regret that they cannot undertake to reply to the many enquiries received unless a stamped envelope is sent with the enquiry.

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TS IN THE BRITISH T.UX Demands Public Owner-

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a ' • :ui lit ,;'u'.i:! a her into line with ,':': . ;.,•;••.-ill ivanttaes. S'K'.lll. Sweden.

.- a, aria:.a. riu'ki •. ami the Argentine—all. •;:a' v, v ail ihe .'XiTplion '>! laie—thc onh i-naa:::: • State approached by Iho Bri'ish

: r s, • vvrnnniv.s who has not yui dc-.iirc.l !'•' .' uiiitucK' on this subject.

IV :h< thousands of Irishmen joined in •.:.e ::11'. a.a.mst Nazism, and to the hun-. .tva> and thousand* of tortured and op-

ress"d peoples of occupied Europe, is owed :. del;: ot aratitude Air. Do Valcra could well : < pay en Eire's behalf, by declaring that Irish soil —so mercifully untouched by the terrors of war shall not shelter Nazi crim-.:,a!s of war: M.L.L. I KNOW your .-pace for correspondence ' is small and I will be as brief as pos-

sible. But I hope lhat you. editing a paper •.hat circulates to yen many democratic Catholic.-, will publish this note on Aliss Whatel;. s views published in your October >sue.

Space wiii nut allow all her points and inferences to be taken up. But does Miss "•.Yhatcly know of

• i > the Pope's condemnation of German Nazism:

iiii the Pope's condemnation of racial ideas;

uiii the Pope's work for the Jews: i iv • the condemnations of Belgian.

Dutch and Austrian Fascisms by the com-bined hierarchies of those countries.

ivi the Pope's condemnation of Italian Fascism. And the list could go on. How then can

.Miss Whatcly claim that the Catholic Church has consistently supported Fascism.

What is the progressive Catholic opinion re presented by Miss Whately?

Yours faithfully. R. P. W A L S H .

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It ss 1.1 nlll' and just i-

fi <(. Ilie We salute

MISS WHATELKY REPLIES— "\"I/"HEN I wrote my article on "Why Does

' * the Vatican Flirt with Fascism." I was aware that I should raise a certain amount of controversy in the Catholic Press. Never-theless, I stand by every word I said in that article, and would like to point out this fact that when I returned from Spain on the outbreak of civil war and found the quite fantastic accounts of what " the Reds." the democratically elected government of the Spanish people were supposed to be doing. I offered to the Catholic Press my observa-tions. as a Catholic, on what I had seen and ) j*rnt in Spain. Not a Catholic newspaper hr.d the courage to accept the article though the "Catholic Worker" said that they would like to do so. had they not been forbidden by their spiritual advisers.

Spain is, perhaps, the most patent example ol what I meant by the Vatican's flirtation with Fascism. When the Fascist party m Spain failed to win a majority of votes in the democratically conducted election, they took up arms in order to overthrow the Popu-lar Front government by force. They were consistently backed up in their effort by ihe Church and its "strange bedfellows." the anti-democratic forces of Germany and Italy. The seriousness of such a situation is easv lor any reasonably intelligent person to see.

Once any democratically elected govern-ment can be overthrown by the use of force, we lose not only political freedom, but reli-gious freedom, which is part and parcel of a democratically constituted State.

M O N I C A W H A T E L E Y .

ill- ! l.l y • - • a -i v -a 1 i!c t r e-tima tiuu ai w ''I'll! air c ir.iiden-.e in it

t r iumph over (> i". ilit- peoples of line! .iteil l.iii'opc. especially the resurgent ricniocru: •» uf • r.tnee, with uiiicli Ireland lias close lies of history ami ui sympathy.

Irish men and women have contributed to the vietary in to-day. and lull for the part played by successive British (>overnnifills in tin past, would have cimtiUnited more. As it is, 150,000 Slave fought in the British armed forces alone. 150,000 work in British indus-

j Iry. I h e war effort of Six-Counties has made a big contribution to the defeat of Fascism though the Twenty-Six Counties, for well understood reasons, remained neutral; the weight of her manpower has been fell ex-clusively oil the Allied side. Tile Irish people have a right to make their contribu-tion to the peace.

To those from among us who as soldiers and civilians have lost their lives, we pay a special tribute. Their dependents must not be allowed to suffer through this.

IRISHMEN to-day must carefully consider the future of their country in the coming

years of world reconstruction. Two basic conditions for future happiness and security are: —

ia) Democracy and social advance in Ireland.

ibi Increasing collaboration with the Tinted Nations in peaceful reconstruction. In the North, the advances made by the

people must be maintained and extended, and the growth of the Labour movement continued at the North's forthcoming gen-eral election. Particularly do we wish to see a complete end to the division of the people on a sectarian basis. In the South, the economic difficulties caused by the war will not quickly pass, and many problems will confront the nation.

The solution is not to be found in schemes of vocationalism but in the development of the free initiative of the people; by the abolition of the censorship; by the freeing of the Trade Unions from restrictions, and above all. in restoring the unity and build-ing the strength of the Labour movement. i \NE frequently mentioned obstacle to Ire-

land's free collaboration with the United Nations is Partition. This lias been a seri-ous injury to Ireland and in dividing the country into a neutral and belligerent sec-tion has in the last few years deepened di-visions. A progressive policy at home would help forward the end of Part i t ion.

Iia , e Ik en nian> e \ . r a p e s ib'Mi'e a those on both sat 's iii lie ii i' to come together. ! !ie\ ia :-• '. t ..it .! -laiptive i.n iies of the n ai lien.;i a . - . . r i s i-.i keep them apart. There lansl ae aa cat la religious discrim-in. I', in in U'a Sisrlli. ail o! reactionary -mini legislation in lae Smith. Ibis de-mands a grr.u slrernilheniiig ol democratic ties between North and south . There must tie collaboration between the I abonr move-ments and an mil ol Government refusals io collaborate.

Such a perspective, leading possibly through Mr. l)c Valera's one-time plan for federation, to ultimate unity, can only be realised given that Ireland takes her full place in the democratic world order, and has good relations with IVitain. It is in the interest of the British people to develop closer friendship with Ireland, and the Bri-tish Labour movement should draw up schemes of closer collaboration with Irish Labour. b\ joint conferences or even a per-manent joint committee.

i ^OK years to come there will be a large

Irish population in Britain. For the post-war Irish in Britain, greater recrea-tional. educational and cultural facilities are needed, including Irish social centres, and above all adequate llostel accommodation. We will work closely with the British Trade i'nions and Labour Movement to secure those improvements. r I 11II growth of the Connolly Association T is very satisfactory, and will be of

greater importance still in the future when the welfare of the Irishmen returning from the Services will largely depend on our spokesmanship and assistance. We therefore propose;

la I To w iden and extend our service of advice io Irishmen throughout the coun-try.

lb) To defend the rights of returning Servicemen in conjunction with other or-ganisations.

!c) To provide, where possible in col-laboration with other bodies, social and educational facilities on a large scale.

(di To increase our work of socialist education in the principles of James Con-nolly.

(el To work with the Trade I'nions to secure 100 among the Irish, and abso-lutely equal status as between English and Irish in all respects.

If) To establish flourishing branches of the Connolly Association throughout the country.

lg) To increase the sales of "Irish Free-dom."

(hi To raise £100 by Christmas, and 11400 by next Conference as a special fund for establishing a permanent Irish Centre in the London area.

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Replying to protests by Cork Harbour Board against the prohibition of direct coal imports into Cork, the Ministry of Supplies wrote repeating the explanation tha t imports via Dublin were necessary to secure a quick turnabout of shipping.

* * * j For failing to till their lands as prescribed,

John F. Tobin. and his mother, Kate Tobin, of Whiddy Island. Bantrv, were lined £25 at Bantry District Court.

* * * Dr. James Deeny, Lurgan, has been ap-

pointed Chief Medical Adviser to the Depart-ment of Local Government and Public Health.

All our voluntary defence services had per-severed magnificently during the pas: live \ears, and he trusted that they would carry through to the end of the war. and after-wards. This statement was made by the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures, Mr. F. Aiken, speaking at the con-clusion of the air-raid precautions compe1".-iionS for Ihe National. Perpetual and Chal-lenge Shields, at Griffith Barracks, Dublin.

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N O R F O L K : J. Laing's S i te , Sculthorpe. Friday, Nov. 10th (see local adve r t i s emen t for t i m e . Speaker: Pat Dooley.

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ALL INVITED A L. ' R ' ® ^ orsan'sat'°ns!

w Groups or individuals ^ interested in Ireland's future are

invited to a Conference to dis-cuss questions of post-war re-

w lease of Irish labour, servicemen s? and pensions, Irish trade and g! finance and the post-war posi-

tion of all sections of Irish people in Britain.

Representatives of all sections of s ! social, political and religious opinion

are cordially invited to be present, without in any way binding them-

es selves to any decisions regarding future activities which, it is hoped, will be decided upon at the Confer-ence.

••J We hope to obtain the largest pos-sible representative attendance. The

j? Conference is being sponsored by the Commonwealth Irish Association, who

g? wish to assure all intending partici-g pants that their presence a t the Con-

ference will not be regarded as bind-ri ing tlicm to the programme of the E C I.A.

All enquiries from delegates, inter-ested persons, or those wishing to par-ticipate in the Conference arrange-ments should be addressed to the Sec-retary. Commonwealth Irish Associa-tion, 66 Sloane St., London, S.W.3.

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than December 4th. It is c \ |VeUa .:„•.. .. Conference will take place ::: Lwai.1., . :. an appeal has been made :u the Ana: . . Federation ci Labour to ivconsitfcr : • a --ent reUisai to attend. It is hoped .a.,, ;.: World Conlercuce will result in the ,-e:ti:a-up of a world organisation o: tradv u:::-.:.-, m which the workers of every cor.utr v . be represented.

Following one of the liveliest ca'aa', a. many years, the Congress e n i h u . - . . t a endorsed an emergencv resclutton ea. :•>.•... -ing the General Council to "develop a poI: •• and programme enabling the British, tra.a: union motcmeni to play its full par: in • re-establishmeni of an interna..onai y.pric-ing-class movement, and to promote tho «.re.;-tion of a trade union international emora.-iug all bona-licie trade union organisation-. '

SOCIAL CHARTER Affirming the view that the German

people cannot be absolved from all 10.-0. a-sibiiity for the crimes committed by Nua: Fascism, the resolution declared there lnt.-t be retribution and atonement. Reparation-, must be paid 111 full and not in money ale:. . Warning against the dangers of a pun:1.'.', peace, the resolution demanded such poll' :• cal and economic conditions of settiente:.'. as would provide a basis for enduring pea.-.. The complete disarmament 01 Germany ar.j. control of German war industries was urgea The Peace Settlement should incorporate a social charter to raise world living standard.-, along the lines advocated by the Interna-tional Labour Organisation at Philadelphia.

M. Saillant. Chairman of the French Council of Resistance, and Secretary of tlw French Confederation of t ade unions, re-ceived a great welcome. I . j t h M. Saillant and Mr. V. Kuzncisev. leaver of the frater-nal Soviet trade union delegation, empha-sised the ravages caused by German occupa-tion of their countries, and M. Saillant bluntly declared that the French workers would refuse to enter into any post-war re-lations with the German workers until th-j latter had shown themselves to be cleansed of every vestige of Nazism.

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP r P H E delegates enthusiastically welcomed J - the General Council's interim report 011 post-war reconstruction calling for the im-mediate public ownership and control of the fuel, power and transport industries, especi-ally the mines and railways.

Stressing the necessity for strengthened government controls of finance, commerce and industry in the post-war period, t h j Congress advocated increased direct partici-pation of the workers through their trad.1

unions at all levels of state supervision. The delegates further demanded tha t the British government should communicate with the governments of other nations with a view t i setting up a European Transport Board Con-trol to secure the international organisation of all shipping and aviation in the common interests of all peoples.

A subordinate resolution moved by the Bank Officers' Guild and seconded by the Chemical Workers' Union requested the Bri-tish Government to appoint a Commission of Enquiry into the nature and activities of existing cartels involving British trusts and combines. The resolution expressed the view that their vast economic power3 should b j brought under public control.

The determination of the British workers ti) ensure that their representatives play an ever greater part in the ensuring of maxi-mum peace-time production was expressed in a resolution advocating the continuance and extension of Joint Production Commit-tees which must include workers at technical and administrative levels.

40-HOUR WEEK r l 1 H E General Council are instructed '.5 J - press for legislation ensuring the car: -

est implementation of a universal 40-ho.tf week in British Industry, with two week-' annual paid holiday for all workers.

The post-war position of women in in-dustry will be safeguarded and improved :. a result of the delegates' endorsement of tit widest application of the principle of "E';tt pay for equal work." This resolution em-phasised that the Government be presold t operate the principle in all government a -partments and to enforce its application all government contracts.

Justice for the Indian people was forcibly advocated in a resolution demanding the im-mediate release of all political prisoner.-, ai. 1 the re-opening of negotiations by the lir -fish government. The General Council ha-; been instructed to appoint a British trade union delegation which will go to India as soon as possible to study the labour prob-lems of India and forge close bonds 0:' unity with the trade union and labour or-ganisations of the Indian people.

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" T H E National Conference of • the Connolly Association

has recent ly concluded its delib-erations. Reviewing the progress of the pas t year, the Association is to be congratula ted on the con-siderable advance made in the organisat ion and protection of Irish worker s in Britain. Only those famil iar with the migratory character of Irish labour abroad can fu l ly appreciate the magni-tude of the task set and accom-plished by the Connolly Associa-tion.

C o n s t a n t re-direction of la-bour ; flying bombs and shortage of staff have increased the war-time difficulties a t tendant u p o n such a venture , bu t they have been overcome by Irish men and women whose zeal and activity has n o parallel among the Irish in Bri ta in .

Considerable disappointment was expressed by the delegates at what they regard as insuffici-ent attention paid to their prob-lems and difficulties by the office of the Eire High Commissioner in London. No one will deny that the sudden demand for per-mits in particular, following the partial raising of the travel ban, has made unusual calls upon the understaffed officials at Regent Street, but if a larger—and bet-ter-paid—staff is required to deal with the manifold tasks which the ever-growing ar^y of emi-grants necessitates, it must be secured from Dublin.

It is only just to state that the General Secretary of the Associ-ation favourably commented on the speed and courtesy with which all official Association en-quiries are handled in the various departments of the High Com-missioner's office.

Irish c r a f t s m e n can c o m p e t e w i t h a l l - comers but o u t s t a n d i n g a m o n g the p r o b l e m s f a o i n l the a n s k i l l e d emigrants , part icutarly in the post-w a r w o r l d , is the ques t ion of increas-ing the ir technical eff ic iency t o enable m a n y former agricul tural w o r k e r s to take their p lace on t e r m s of e q u a l i t y w i t h their f e l l o w s in the e n g i n e e r i n g and bui ld ing industr ies . Ireland, too , wi l l w a n t <more sk i l l ed w o r k e r s if the plans of the Minis ter of S u p p l i e s in Eire are to be operated . This p r o b l e m of increas ing the t ech-nical ski l l of the men in Britain is n o w rece iv ing the serious a t t ent ion of the Gonnol ly Assoc iat ion .

P l a n s a r e a lso made for the estab-l i shment of premises in London which c a n be the centre f o r all s h a d e s of frish op in ion . Th i s has long b e e n necessary a n d w h e n es tab l i shed w i l l furn i sh t h e bas is for a united Irish m o v e m e n t In Brita in w h i c h alone can erisufe t h e b e s t poss ible protect ion of Irish i n t e r e s t s in Bri ta in .

T o b u i l d sUch a m o v e m e n t it is n e c e s s a r y t o setjjire t h e co-operat ion of air t h o s e g e n u i n e l y interes ted in Irish a f fa i r s In Britain.

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;ta ear-sit.it terillg explo.-.ita :s 0 v- ta'-ii ;ir, no.v ra.ninti mi ( ;. 1111:111 soil, tin-Allied armies are wiitini' h,. Untile l 0 .j1(.

j -it-11-ci Na/i remiiie. j I.Ike an irresistible a . a l anehe Ihe Reel I A: nr. has awe,)! o v r ta.e uordcrs of Easi

Prussia. As it pane: a: as deeper into Ger-man terri tory, the buttered r emnan t s of the picked divisions, which the G e r m a n High Command threw in to defend the lrontier . are savouring to the full the bit-terness of utter defeat. For Germany as a whole, the invasion of Eas t Prussia not only comes as a terrific shock: it is also the in t imat ion that the fa teful hour of reckoning is at hand.

F u r t h e r emphasising this is the fall of Aachen, city of the G e r m a n emperors, in the West . At the same time as they bat ter t he German troops out of Holland, the Allied armies in Western Europe gather their forces for another great thrus t onwards which will take them over the Rhine .

The f r o n t s are approaching each other, bringing to an end the Fascist n igh tmare , and re t r ibut ion for the criminal bandi t s who plunged all Europe into the agony of death a n d destruction.

THE MOSCOW TALKS rJ HE visit of Churchill to Moscow and

United s t a : ! being iii.(•••

Germany is lishing ol

n ( . : - , . ' ' 3 •:' a an and •s 11. Aiiii-nca- will renin a-. :.:..a mth'iii" victory

see:;red. to work for the e universal peace and

security of the nations.

his talks with Stalin signify tha t soon new and greater concerted blows f rom the East a n d the West will be delivered at Hitler Germany . At the same time the Moscow discussions have an importance which goes beyond the sphere of the mili-tary operations.

The Moscow talks have once again pro-vided a striking demonstra t ion of the unity of the great Allied Powers, a uni ty which h a s grown stronger since the his-toric conference at Teheran nearly a year ago.

They once more underl ine that the great coalition of the democratic Powers—the

F R E N C H G O V E R N M E N T R E C O G N I T I O N

I N according recognition to the French ' Provisional Government , the three

major Allied Powers have taken a step that will undoubtedly contribute to the still grea ter unification of the F r e n c h people a n d enable the new France more effectively to mobilise its forces aga ins t the common enemy.

The declarat ion of recognition h a s been enthusiastically hailed in France and throughout the entire democratic world. The F r e n c h people are still undergoing a difficult time, but they are ready and more than anxious to play their par t alongside their Allies in bringing about victory for the democrat ic cause. Recognition of their Provisional Government s t r eng thens their h a n d s in this respect.

UPSURGE IN SPAIN A S the tide of Allied victory rises higher

u * and higher , the ground is beginning to shake a n d heave under the feet of Hitler's f r iends. This is part icularly the case with Fascist F ranco and his Fa lang-ists. F rom Spain comes reports of vigor-ous guerilla action in Catalonia. Asturias, Andalusia a n d other parts .

Guerilla uni ts fighting in Spain are or-ganised under military direction which is subject to the political direction of the Supreme J u n t a of National Unity. The Supreme J u n t a operates f rom Madrid and directs the underground opposition to Franco inside Spain.

In the mon th of September the h igh command of the guerilla units published its first communique to the Spanish people. In this communique it s ta ted that " the guerilla uni ts are formed f rom Spanish pa t r io ts of all creeds and political beliefs" and t ha t "their sole objective is

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ii, ( to fi^ilt against till' l-autnaisi . item;, a. a in ; his masters , the German.. .

>"!T 1 It is reported from Spain tint: mo:-, .ib- i than 200 Basque catholic pries s sir*- «*;!: he j in Franco ' s prisons.

H A M M E R I N G T H E J A P S I N a magnificent ma jo r operat ion ihe ' forces under Genera l MacAiThur's com-

mand have landed in the Phil ippines and seized hold of the s t rategic island of Leyte. By th is move the Allies have cut the Japanese lifelines to the Far Eas t e rn oc-cupied territories. Hard on the heels oi the news of this bril l iant success came the f u r t h e r word of the smashing de fea t in-flicted on the Jap Navy in the grea t naval and air battle which raged for days 111 Phil ippine waters.

T.U.C. DECISIONS I ^ R O M various accounts j t would appeal * t h a t the recent T rade Union Congress,

held in Blackpool, was a decided success. A new spirit was mani fes t in its delibera-tions a n d it faced up squarely to the im-por tan t questions and issues conf ron t ing the Labour Movement.

PLANS OF MONOPOLISTS A COMMITTEE of the Federa t ion of

x * Bri t ish Industries has drawn up a re-port on "The Organisat ion of Br i t i sh In-dustry." This report, which embodies the plans of the big industrial ists , suggests the format ion of more powerful monopo-lies in all sections of Brit ish industry . I t shows t h a t the big industr ial is ts a re seek-ing a f ree hand for monopoly, a n d tha t they wish to control the controls.

Th i s report, when taken in con junc t ion with the diehard Tory a t t i tude on the Town a n d Country P lanning Bill, shows the stiff struggle which will have to be made aga ins t the react ionary vested in-terests. The Labour and Progressive forces will have to exert themselves to the full aga ins t Tory sabotage to ensure the safeguard ing of the people's interests .

J.R.S.

PAT'S NOTEBOOK. CELEBRATION r p H E sixth anniversary of the founding of J - the Connolly Association was celebrated

at a re-union and dinner in London recently. Everybody who was anybody in Irish circles was present. Peadar O'Donnell, on a visit to London, dropped in but it was difficult to get an "innings" with him. It seemed tha t the entire gathering wanted to know the "latest" from the Metropolis. T. A. Jack-son, well-known Irish historian, was in his usual brilliant form and entranced the com-pany with some anecdotes. M. Mclnerney, W. McCullough and Betty Sinclair, from Belfast, were there to contribute to a very enjoyable evening.

Irish songs were a feature of the pro-gramme and were contributed by Misses Campbell, Young and Kerman and by Mr. M. Mclnerney who rendered the ever-favour-ite "Foggy Dew."

Mr. Desmond Greaves presided at the din-ner and emphasised the important role tha t the Connolly Association had played since its foundation in October, 1938. He urged all present to give it their support.

Other speakers were Messrs. T. A. Jack-son, M. Mclnerney, the founder of the As-sociation. and Mr. Paddy Clancy, London District Secretary ol the Association.

EIRE'S BEVERIDGE ' IMIE Beveridge Report was bound to have 1 its repercussions in Eire, and the pro-

posals suggested by the Most Rev. Dr. Dig-nam, Bishop of Clonfeit, chairman of the Management of National -Health Society, constitute Eire's first reply to the Bever-idge blast.

The scheme would include sickness benelits equivalent to 50 per cent, of the weekly earnings and retirement pensions are visual-ised in a revolutionary scheme of health benefits and social services which has been presented to Mr. Sean MacEntee, the Min-ister for Local Government and Public Health by the National Health Insurance Society.

Elaborate new hospital services and the appoitnment of a Minister for Social Ser-( vices are suggested. It is estimated lhat 90 per cent, of the population would benefit by the scheme. Suggestions for the financing of the scheme include the allocation of "all profits of the Sweepstake," while members' contributions would be increased.

Many thought that this schcme was an official Government one but Mr. MacEntee dispelled any such illusion. He had only

seen a copy of it so far. he said, and would "consider" it. THAT INCOME TAX TT is the fashion of those destructive

critics of Ireland and the Irish to snipe whenever they can at the Irish workers in Britain, declaring that they never pay in-come tax and are for ever avoiding their "responsibilities."

The latest of these was the gallant and honourable Col. Carver, who was asking the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that many Irish workers are now refusing to pay income tax in accordance with the law of this country, and whether steps in such cases can be taken to repatriate these men to Ireland.

Sir John Anderson, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, replied: My hon. friend is under a misapprehension. It is the statutory duty of the employer to deduct income tax froiji the pay of his employees, including employ-ees from Eire. .The regulations -give the employer no discretion in the matter, and if he fails to deduct the appropriate tax he nevertheless remains liable to pay the tax over... to the Inland Revenue. There can. therefore, be no question of these employees refusing to pay tax in accordance with the law.

This, of course, has long been clear to all unprejudiced persons but, notwithstanding that, or,perhaps because of that, the learned Prof. Savory later asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if his attention had been called to official figures published in Dublin showing tha t Southern Irish people 111 Bri-tain sent home in 1943 remittances amount-ing almost to £11,000,000 a s compared with £6,000,000 in 1942 and only £600,000 in 1939, and whether he will state how much income tax has been paid on these sums.

PFof. Savory represents Belfast University at Westminster. VANG11AKI)

NEW Socialist Republican Group held +.* their first meeting in the Engineers' Hall, Dublin, recently.

Capt. Peadar Cowan explained the pro-gramme of the new Group when lie said that, it was no part of the organising com-mittee's idea to form a new party, but it was part of their Idea,, by propaganda and by activity in Labour Party's-branches and eijsewhere, to leu) Jtlie working, classes And the working farmers to a Socialist republic.

A crisis had developed in the Labour Party last year. It had been attacked from

without and within, and the at tack from within succeeded because the rank and file did not understand the foundations on which the party had been founded by Connolly.

Expulsions had been carried out at the be-hest of /l secret religious organisation. This was the most dangerous organisation they had to face, but face it thev must. "These people." he said, "are so powerful that they control all the senior appointments in the State, and they control the political parties. A COMMENT ' f P H E Labour Party, commenting on the -L Group, said: "So as to avoid a m pos-

sible misunderstanding regarding the new organisation known as 'The Vanguard.' initi-ated by Capt. Peadar Cowan, the Adminis-trative Council of the Labour Party has in-formed the Branches tha t Capt. Cowan re-signed from the Party early in August last and tha t the Party has 110 responsibility for The Vanguard,' or for the utterances of

Capt. Cowan or those associated with him. Members of the Labour Party have been ad-vised tha t they must pot associate them-selves with the 'Vanguard' organisation."

Dublin seethes with rumours about the "must not" which, it is said, originally read "should not." Meanwhile the "Standard" is in full cry with its blood-hounds straining at the leash.

Incidentally, I hope there is no t ru th in the quip of a Dublin wit who says tha t what the "Standard" says to-day }s sure to be the policy of Irish Labour to-morrow. J. H. FOWLER

LSEWHERE tribute Is paid to J. H. F j Fowler, a grand old fighter for Ire-land, whose work in Britain will be remem-bered by many. I am sorry to hear that lie is dangerously ill in Dublin and join with his many admirers In London in wishing him a speedy recovery.

Fowler's bookshop near St. Giles, London, was a rendezvous for many of the Irish in London. He was deported in the early day3 of the war and opened his shop in Dublin.

Belatedly, an attempt is being, ihade to give tangible expression to the esteem in which J. H. Fowler Is held. Interested per-sons should write to Mr. E. Hawes. c /o Gaelic Club, 45 Brook Green Road. Hammer-smith, London, W.6.

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•>'.e :< joiee at a new and h is toncai prospect of a There win be many new

,t;ici old cues appearing in new tne grner.il piospect is clear."

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iiie r part j;j bini(ii!i; up and tin- :o"!i: of the l'u w ])ost-war

it h a ' ' m in a voire in such 'ir-> ol r(.r:•-<•. ih<- .Ms counties n' li.i a|ia• 11.nil i'.ia!. and a

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! ...• :n.imrial arm- ol Irish

mmvmen! • pr.

ieli n: (lis]: wl'.icii still 1 pro\ iii. e.

"in the 'botiih' ill" problem is dilferenl. Eire is econoi.ileali\ hand.rapped by the lark ol imports. 'I'he wholi of Southern economy has been altered to meet 'he emei'i;eney. and tiinno; quickly be not back. There will be in. ny di.'Iirul: problems for statesmen to solve. But thev will not be soiled by voca-tienallsm. l h r \ will only be solved by de-veloping the initiative of the people. The censorship is isolating the country from the progressive thought of Ihe world. The Trade Union Bill is hindering the organisation of the. workers. Both must go. Instead we must see a ureal national campaign to pro-vide the needs ol tile people, to rid the country from overcrowding, poverty and dis-ease. In tlie last analysis it falls to the res-ponsibility ol Labour to initiate this cam-paign.

"To do this Labour must first close its own ranks. During this year we have witnessed the most unfortunate split thai ever dis-graced Irish Labour politics. It was doubly unfortunate eoming after Labour's great gains in the las. election. We place the main blame for this on William O'Brien."

( OT HAGI OI S POLICY NEEDED j ' RGINU the necessity for courageous ' policies. Mr. Greaves declared: " T h e

leadership of the Labour Party did not. in my opinion, resist the charges made against the party v.itii sufficient courage. They car-ried out expulsions at the behest of those who had only just before that broken away from them. This led to a mood of confusion, of hesitancy on the one hand, and impa-tience on the other, especially among the yotuigCr and more intellectual sections of the party.

"Some of these, realising the great need lor education have formed a new movement called (lie "Vanguard.'' Education is a great necessity, and anybody who undertakes it is doing good work. We appreciate the kind-ness of the "Vanguard" in sending greetings to our Conference, and if we criticise it is in a friendly spirit. We do hope that nothing

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Mr. 1'. La ih . and .Mrs. and Mr. Stedman. ulio ire Treasurer and Organiser of the Connolly Association

i ' i l l i o n ' I 'V'KNl NO to i 'le pi obi' le * Greaves said: "There iae

liroois g:\en iliat. North ;,.. : peopie a n in favour ol a un;;i what basis can this be aclheMe a compromise between big In.-.:.-Can big business unite Ireland' (hat what we have said lei In perity in '..'.eiieral goes lor |.,:r ' t i tular . Extended demote; ; , advance. North and South. : tile unity of the country . , , "

1KISII IN iiKITAIN "There is an unprecedented

labour," the speaker said, building work here for 20 years Irish are available and tile w done, all that is necessary is to i; We s tand lor complete equalu; in a pects between English and Insli 'I'he British Trade Unions want th x and we will gladly work with them.

OTil.' K BODIES " T H E R E is now the need lor a i,r>„ . >

' operative movement, and I . ruii : :.e here to refer to the presence aimau .. el General Sir Hubert Gouah. We i>! tin C .a-liolly Association can work with the •„ is Irish Clubs, the Commonwealth Irish A i-ciation, the Irish Citizens' Union, or ..av other body that wants the same rli::r; : n on every question, but on llie imni'i; ;:c questions—fair play for the rciarnn," I: -h servicemen, a square deal lor ti.e :ire. .a workers, for educational and cu!it:r.>; -• i 1— ties, better billeting arrangeineiiis."

4m IMltriTION I I K. I>. CLANCY i London Di.Or!.: C-

retary, Connolly Association' i.iini: AVe welcome good relations betiveen the Euro-pean States and Ireland. I sut f ts l we send a message to General dc Ctaulle or the Com-mittee of Liberation welcoming the libera-tion of France. Every Irish man and woman of democratic opinions recognise tin evil ot parti t ion and know the ultimate object is the complete unity of the Irish people.

"The majority of people, even in the Ni.r'Ji of Ireland, the loyalist section of the lation. have had enough of partition, one thing to be fed up with a form r eminen t and another to be convmci,' . the nor th they are not convinced ing f rom the frying pan in what tin;, may be the fire.

"The only tiling they will ire-; ornment in which the Irish Lat"ai' i . the progressive elements have . . voice. There is a drift awav In mi 1 Nationalist Party which appeal'- : - t» out a policy. The fact that hi . towards the left points to a il . . ; there will be unity and laslin • ; r. v. land.

"I think the tie between No:"!i must be based on a cultural ri b .»• . i that there should be a conferi. ' > the Labour Party of the Nor;.. ... South to discuss the problem? <••.!:•::. both in the post-war world, v.. i < elude proposals for arterial r,:... t ransport and electriiication <.: 'n>-Ireland.

"A point made by C'amp'oi 11 ' Hon of legislation against 1'. Unions in the South of Ire',; mi. portant trade unions are in : . legislation is passed againsi ,i, •::.. • lind we will have two T.U.C North and one in the South."

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getting Welfare Officers appointed a I> "i and should have medical oxaimimii'.'i (l!

workers coming here. It is obvious to tile tha t some of the workers are in poor phy-sical condition. Within four weeks, three of those men h»ve died. There have alio been cases of some girls who have got thein-

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iiiug Ireli.nd e.r '.Tiitic woi: ! .ii ; iiitiusiriah.'-at ion pend on i,'. iain.1 liussia and A European natio;;.-. not be lefl bi liiiic nations achaiue. l

Disappoininii n; the failure o! tl: at the last age from I intensive b nothing eh at' Labour, attack and strengthen country.

Irishmen nil tile was in the liberal io Nanism. Some

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viin Britain, 'il as with the 'ii. Ii i land must peoples of other

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nap of deli-gates outside the Connolly Association I miri i i t til i-i-hi: W. Mclncincy, W. Barr, I). Greaves, .May Hugh

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Labour wonkl v. as ah'iady 's oieanisaiio!

rt c o v r i aking 1 iiil'ril

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'bout the

k; in.mtn in Ihe factories and oil's purred an imporan i role

of the countr'es mer- iun by .'00.000 Irishmen had joined

the armed lories, many thousands had manned tile factory fronts. Ireland itself ill many ways had contributed lo the defeat of world reaction, aid of Ireland \ in eradicaiing thi'oughoui the

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of Fascism m Em public lilt*. AI". n

in the nays '.uid b • of gre lie las', vestig ,', oriel.

CMTY rrys and O'Ni who had sti)

must be driven from ne labour movement

ol peace the u importance ' of Fascism

leilis in North-ported th" rise

way. Branch; s Were now sjii' i.gn strong Unionist isl Parte 111 -N'oi

Ol 1 .-• tip

la in vancing and organised by great swing e-to tile Labout

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er irom liu iiiiii. men.

liiioour movement v\ 11a. wt re :o. tneriy as. 'ilie (;• 11111111;.-i 'and was ai-.o ad-inee.,ngs haa bctn ' .as., indicating a

.-, ot Un'om. in a'ogi ess.

ill The advance el ! aoour be helped cons.r'a . abi.v by Connolly A.-.-,ocaeio;i meniair Wide publicity on tile p.

was preparing for those opposed lo being approached candidate in e\rrv policy would cn-ure Northern Iri-lanci of eminent that would

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'.•oming election. All Unionist Parly wei'" orm one opposition istitticnci'. Sucii a • coming lo power in ew and popular Gov-

wiii progress and pios-pcrity for the pi opli e.i North, rn Ireland.

The speaker said that the Labour move-ment in the North was making great head-

and tin Labour n.owmt measurably in wiun,ng I Irishmen in 'his coiai'.it selves with all those on Party and support all ti movemt ill and elsewhere win a People's Covernni

Ii eland could letivily of ra-

il B r i t a i n , i ion of Ireland

nl would help iin-'ciaii., to: Labour . ;• 1 eaiitl a.ly tliem-

|iom 11 to .he Tory rise in tile Labour wh > were trying lo •n. for Britain.

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WIT I Alt! I'I'OSl'EUITY AND Si t I CI I Y

I N. SIK III !!! I£T COUCH, a vnitor :o tile Confcn i re . said: "Let me begin

by saying I am o.licmch pleased to have this op|X)r!unity to meet Irish people. I think it is very important that a; this lime we all get togeiher and woik together be-cause there are certain main objects which we all have in common.

"I think he m e n ob ect before all Irish-men is to work lor ihe welfare, prosperity and security of In land. For these reasons

as well as for rea uns of ljo'.ic.v, Ireland and mnlai . geiiier in terms in tile cr'-e snip. We should not in e have often qua:relic.i ju, trade ln.ercs.s and it good ( ihe kmc! ol blood you set- en the help io go a lo.ig v .e. to Ij tiki pcrily, welfare and si euril.v.

As President ol ihe C Ireland Association. I wot, word on the re-ponsieilili look af ter the needs ul ill served in th.- war. Seme Irish Conimonv. ah h Assoc. the Minister ol Pensions.

The Ministry ol Pensions ful and have alread\ take

in London. I'. Clancy.

. I)ot>iey.

-i - • • ^ -'s • o;;d neighbourly .1 should get lo-i possible iriei.d-icing iriencU. We

geograpliy and leal oi olooci i not

lloori should up our pros-

01 nmonweah.il d like to say a s ol Britain to

Irish men who neinbers of the

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tioiiships on this met er ment in Dublin.

PAT DOOLEY. Edite dom" and Executi,.-

Connolly Association, spoke of Irish censorship, deploi i: etfccis on the development people. After plans had la post-war development of "I.' resolution was pa sed tireir Board to consider chancing paper lo "Irish Democrat."

t i e most help-practical steps

organisation ir contributions. - friendly rcia-h the Govern-

r of "Irish Free-member of the on the subject

"I its resiriciive ol t lie h i l i

•n outlined lor ish Freedom. ' a ; the Editorial he name of the

i't Mr. I*. Clancy I London District Sec-retary, Connolly Association), Bridgit Malone, and I'at Dooley (Editor, "Irish

Freedom")

F L A N N C A M P B E L L (Na.iaiial Excc.itiv i

M M i i a a M B a H M l

I R I S H F R E E D O M November , 1944

DAWROS DOMINATES THE HANDICAPS

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from the rebound. Reu aeded a p.urr and Bri-niJi.il a, aoal.

Rea ant; Moore po:ut> cl btiurp B. Delaney rushi .: i i irofeh a aval Irom a .-in>; by Hun; that .-truck the bar.

Brc an.in •.•• a'a <i a-.hit : .n I aoiahis in a poa'.m.iuth .-ei-iimb . r , , -hu! die bail over tin-line.

Mi \ I I! ({1 AI.IFV FOK SKMI-FIN.AL MEATH. v.ho won the first tic between the teams, quaiifieci for the- semi-final of the

Leinster Football League '.vhen they drew With Louth 2-4 to 1-7.

Louth opened well in each half but failed to stay the pace. Meatli's attack was always strong and sustained.

Louth, though playing against 'the wind, opened with two point.-. This hah finished (veil.

Louth opened the second half with two points. Mcath came back with a point by Donnelly and a coal by Meeean. Points by Bevy and Cunningham levelled tire scores just before the end.

Down a point at half-time, Longford 2-7 rallied in the second half to beat Sligo 1-5 in a challenge game.

In this half Longford scored a goal and three points without reply, per McGcetterick 0-2. Hannify 0-1. and McGuire 1-0.

Oflaly 2-5 defeated Westmeath 1-C in a very close Leinstcr League game at Mul-lingar. OfTaly led at half-time and all through the second h a l f Westmeath struggled valiantly but in vain to reduce the lead.

Down 1-12 defeated Tyrone 1-9 in a closely contested Lagan Cup game at Coalisland. Ty-rone improved as the game proceeded but their efforts were unavailing.

Local Games: Kerry Hurling Champion-ship Final: Crotta 9-5, Kilgarvin 2-4. Lim-erick Football Championship Final: St. Pat-rick's 1-6. Ballyhahili 1-4. Monaghan Foot-ball Final: Kileevan 1-6. Castleblaney 2-2. Cork Hurling Final: Clomakilty 1-9. Fermoy 1-5. This is the third successive year for these teams to meet in the final with the same result.

GAEL

SpotlightonSport B> J.A.D.

(JHAMROCK ROVERS won the City Cup ^ last month without a defeat. Final re-sults were:

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. Shamrock K. .. i 7 0 0 23 11 14 Bndeville 7 4 1 n 12 13 9 Limerick . . 7 3 2 n 14 16 8 Bohemians 7 3 1 3 19 19 7 Dundalk 7 3 0 4 21 20 6 Shelbounie 2 2 3 12 15 6 Cork Uid 7 1 2 4 10 13 4 Drumcondra . 7 1 0 6 7 16 2

Shamrock Rover Cup winners were de-feated 6-3 bv Limerick in the first round of the Shield.

Oilier results were: Bohemians 1 iWaters i . Dundalk 0. Brideviilc 2 (Clarke. FitzSimons). Drum-

condra 5 (Martin 2. Delanev 2. Dwyeri. Shelbourne 3 (T. Kinsella. Gannon, Mc-

Cluskyi, Cork Utd. 1 (Madden). Limerick have sinned Vernier, former

Cork Pld. outside-right.

N O [ H E R m o n t h h a s g o n e h < i a m c h a n d i c a p p e r s , a n d c

T h e ^ t . i .--.it r . r u n a t t h e L u r r r t r y e w i t h I 0 / 1 t h e field, b a r \ \

Tit. g a v e U'st inv.mv lo }.;, i :u iistiiU 'tH 'ss for , on lu rn i r . t ; i:-.\vn the h i l l , of the e igh t startcr:-niily l i te v<>-Iavi>urites, r e t u r n e d tit (i 4. t. 'ere seen to have a chance. A spii it. el (itiei u p the s t raight was com-f o r t ab l y w o n by M r . M. S. C a r r o l l ' s W a t e r S t r e e t , on w h o m J o e C a n t y .yave y d t t r . t ther display of sk i l fu l hois-•manship. and had a length to s p a r e p a s s i n g the pos t . B r a v e B o y w a s t h i r d . •eight l e n g t h s a w a y .

'1 ill K.iilwav Stakes of six furlongs gave Knight's Emblem his initial success, and the style of his win by three lengths and a short head from Quick Return and Admirable was a delight, especially to those who have mem-em s of his sire. Knight's Caprice, a winner of the Phoenix Plate and other valuable races in Ireland and England.

I.istouel's three-day meeting was rewarded by a record attendance. Backers about held their own here, winning favourites including Spartom Runner, Lavenham who fenced in effortless fashion. Callaly, Playmate III, Coal Queen, and Ooing Concern.

PHOENIX PARK t T the Phoenix Park on the 30th, large

- ' entries and a crowded racecourse testi-fied to the popularity of this venue. Five favourites won and Sir Percy Loraine, with K. More O'Ferral! and P. Powell (Jun.) reg-istered a dcuble when Admirable won the opening Nursery Handicap and Hyrcania the Mallei Plate. Our great chaser. Prince Re-gent. came out to contest the Templeoguc Plate but' although very much fancied and being made favourite, failed to make any impression on High-land Reel; this four-year-old eolt by Cam-eronian-Messe, ridden by ."Mr. P. Connolly, led ail the way and won easily by six lengths.

A third successive win stamped Dawros as one of the leading handicappers in the country. Mrs. G. Robinson's chestnut, by Pearlueed. Blue Hills, won the Tara Han-dicap over a mile and appears to be carry-ing on where the same owner's Sunny Star, another fine money-spinner, left off.

The revived Dundalk meeting provided ex-cellent sport and close finishes on Oct. 5th. where The dripper, a great performer of two years ago, won his first race. Since then when staying on well to get the better of Historical Revue and Colehill in the Gap o' the North 'Chase—he started unfancied at 20/1. Two short heads divided Racketeer, Mill Hoy and Whelan in the Dunteer Hurdle, while a similar margin was the verdict in Sir Gabriel's win at the expense of Sorrel m the Dromiskin Plate; and the programme ended with a dead-heat between Salaam and Mr. Bert Kerr's Golden Days over seven furlongs, with Felspar only half-length be-hind. Punters left the course mentally ex-hilarated but financially embarrassed.

IRISH CAMBRIDGESHIRE "\X7"ITH twenty-five runners going to the

post for the Irish Cambridgeshire at the Corragh on Oct. 7th, odds of 5 1 the field were given, with Astrologer carrying 9-2 heading the bookmakers" boards. And, as suggested in our notes of last month, this provided a magnificent race in the finishing stages. For, with Astrologer out of the pic-ture after about five furlongs, Dawros drew out at least two lengths clear with a little over a furlong to go and appeared an out-and-out winner until Morny Wing, engaged to ride Dry bob only on the morning of the race, brought Mr. N. E. Wilkinson's eolt along with a great run to get up on the post and force a dead heat. The Abbot of Hain-ault was third, three lengths away Drybah who carried 8-7, is a four-year-old. by Bobs-leigh-Ktrapeto, and (rained by M. V. O'Brien at Mallow; he was returned at 20's. while 10., 1 was being offered about Mrs. Robinson's

\ a n d si i l l t h e s t r e a m of good t w o - y e a r - o l d s , t r i e d t h r c e - \ e a r - o l h a s e r s or the be s t b l o o d c o n t i n u e to d e l i g h t l a c e g e r r s in I r e ! - r qli on the 2 3rd S e p t e m b e r , p r o m i s e d to b e virtual!;- a two-!-a t e i Street a n d L a n c e r , b e i n g o n o f f e r .

I : , |«j:. . 'ill v.i.scn .?. I.diicry, earrvine 8-3.

J l i s National Produce Stakes -law li. 1!. Ilea-dey. as trainer, another winner -.vhen Mr. .1. .(. Roche's Solid Pact, v.ilh Tommy Burn-

I in the saddle, readily accounted for his 15 | opponents and scored by two lengths and | one-and-a-half from Ice Brook and Panas-| trid.

Backers had the best of mailers at Lim-erick on tl"n 12th, when live favourites, a co-favourite, end a second favourite, found winning brackets. Here. Calialy reversed the dcci.-ion of last month's meeting at the Junction in giving 21 lbs. and an eight-lengths beating to Law-abiding in the Mini-ster National Handicap Chase. The attend-ance was up on the previous year and an old friend. Col. Scott Moore's Pulchcr, at 7 4 on. came into his own when winning- the Dclin-e$e Chase over 2, miles.

LEOPAKDSTOW N HEADERS will have to tolerate another mention of the merits ol Dawros for. a

week alter his great effort at the Curragh, he reappeared to make it five in a row, in the Hollywood Handicap ol a mile at Leo-pardstovvn. Even with a 71b. penalty he was an even-money favourite, and made hacks of the opposition to score by five lengths and six f rom Perilous Record and Warthrift, after having difficulty in finding an opening coming round the final bend. This game gelding has well earned his win-ter's keep!.

A small field turned out for the Laragh Handicap Chase over three miles, and Sum-mer Star made amends for earlier failures by winning easily f rom II.M.S. Sturgeon and Golden Jack.

The filial Curragh card of the year, on the 21st. contained the Bcrcsford Stakes and the £500 October Han-dicap. The testing mile showed us the prom-

ise of a previously unknown juvenile in Stalino; owned and trained by Col. A. J. Blake, this colt formed the second leg of a stable double, for Ice Brook had previously won the Probationer's Stakes over six fur-longs. Ice Brook started a firm favourite at 6 4. but stalino ran unfancied at 20's.

Solar Prince, now with Darby Rogers, regained the winning form shown when in M. C. Collins' stable to take the valuable It mile handicap.

We regret lo record the death during Sep-tember of a prominent racing personality", Mr. H. C. McNally, whose presence will be sadly missed on the Irish tracks. Few will forget the great performances of his cham-pion, Royal Danieli, who came so near to winning at Aintree in 1938.

The big problem—and big il truly is—of next month is lo find the winner of the Irish Cesarewitch, for this race, to be run on the 4lh November at the Park, owing to transport difficulties, attracted 95 entries, 49 being left in after the first acceptance stage. With weights ranging from 9-5 lo seven stone, a handicapping enigma of discourag-ing depth has been set but, taking courage and the pen in either hand, we suggest that the chances of Highland Reel (8-11), Princt Regent (8-7), Free Trade C8-6>, and The Gripper (8-3) should not be overlooked. The present ante-post favourite is the four-year-old King of the Jungle, who figures on the 7-5 mark.

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A N interesting competition took place in -'»• Coventry when the following Hostels took part for the Intor-Ho.ste] Talent Com-petition arranged by the Hostels Corporation Ltd.: —

Chace. Brooklands, Kereslcv, Spring, Bag-inton, Oheylcsmore, Charters Avenue, Tile Hill, Kirby Corner, Whobcrley, Sherbourne.

The finals took place in Wyken Hostel on Monday night, Oct. 16th, when the follow-ing Hostels competed for the Cup and Shield:

Chace, Brooklands, Tile Hill, Charters Avenue, Spring Estate.

Result: Chace 1st, Tile Hill 2nd, Brook-lands 3rd.

Mr. Tlios. O'Mahoney, Youghal, Co. Cork, Eire, a professional acrobat who is a resi-dent of Chacc Hcwtel, Coventry, won the Cup. Shield and Diploma.

The adjudicator congratulated the various competitors and remarked that the s tandard of talent placed before them .was high and he had no hesitation in awarding the Cup to the Chace Hostel entrant.

J. FURLONG.

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THORNTON'S BIG CHANCE

A I A R T I N T H O R N T O N , f - , I r i s h * heavyweight champion, mee t s

F r e d d y Mills, the British cruiser-weight champion, in London on Oct. 30th. This will be Thornton's, first be-chance in first-class boxing.

Mills was beaten last month for • ,v» British Heavyweight Championship by .la -. London after a terrific fight; in fact, one ot tile best seen in London for many \ears. "-liils beat that master of ringcratt . I.en I lar .e ; for the title. Willi a good left lead. Mill-, t- a hard-hitting lighter, and packs a sterna l'ielt' -hand punch.

Thornton defeated Faddy O'Sullivan (Corki for the Irish Heavyweight crown :n the "Royal," Dublin last \ ear. He has won a number of good fights here. Like Mills, he too is a fighter with a strony eight, and possesses plenty of courage. / t^KRALD EGAV will promote a content

' in the near future, and I should not be surprised to see Spike McCortnack—Pal O'Connor bout as the top ol' the bill. I hear Joe (Boy) Collins will defend hi.: title on the same bill.

APOLLO ( LI B I met the popular Eddie Downey iti Dub-

lin last month. He tells me he is willing t : fight Jimmy Ingle any time anywhere and, lo quote Eddie. "I won't touch the purse n I don't stay the distance."

Eddie is keeping fit at the Apollo Physical Culture Club, which is the only one of its kind in Ireland and I had the honour of being shown round by Eddie and one of the Committee. They have every convenience and it is doing great work keeping our young, men fit.

STADIUM BOUTS HIGH-LIGHT of the opening bouts ill the County Dublin Championships at the

Stadium this month was the lightweight semi-final between P. Nevill and J. VI. McDonnell (North City> in which the for-mer was narrowly beaten on points.

McDonnell scored heavily in the opening round with heavy punches but Nevill took them all in his stride, and in the second round he put McDonnell down for a count of eight. In a hectic toe-to-toe battle in the last round. Nevill carried the fight to his opponent to gain a narrow victory.

J. Power, the Irish Junior Champion, was hard-pressed to beat his clubmate, C. Ilardy, in a flyweight semi-final.

Other Results: Fly, 1st series: G. Keains (Avona) bt. S. Clear.v (Myra) on pts. Ban-tam: Semi-Finals, T. Mardy (Terenure) b(. C. Sagan (Myra) on paints. J. Gallagher (C.B.S.I.) beat G. Carroll (Griffith) on pts. Light: 1st series, A. McDermott(Au D.A.R.A) bt. R. Walsh (Nth. City) on pts. Cruiser: Pte. T. Vickers (Potohello) beat Pte. E. Cur-ran (A.A.A.) on pts. Heavy Semi-Finals: G. Col man (Nth. City) k.o. Pte. P. Kinsella (Myra) in round one. Heavy: G. Colman (North City) bt. J. Kerry (Phoenix) on pts.

J . Doyto

S H A W WRITES A t i A l N TO W E X F O R D

"I am greatly gratified by tlx; Corporation's acceptance of my proposal and the spirit in whieh it has met me. The matter is urgent, because I am in my 89th year, and may drop at any moment. 1/ I die before the transfer is effected the property will fall into my residuary estate, only one-third of which will go to Ireland. I shall not. die if I possibly can help it until my Irish estate is safely municipalised, but I cannot guarantee my survival, though.there is nothing wrong with me except old age.

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§ FRIDAY NIGHT IN HANDSWOBTII IS IRISH NIGHT IN BIRMINGHAM

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'.-.,. : the Irish Whips.

- c.i'i bund ol I r ish Nyiionalisw ,»:-.o c.. liattU'd agaitisi , and frequently ji;t„.••.- the Tories who blocked the t : \ td ;.,> Hl . Rule lor Ireland. Trending the , .... ec! by Isaac B : u . Joseph Biggar :.:.,: C. ties StcWitrt Parnell . the Irish N.yiet .:sis of Mr. Bolanci's day. who jN-v,-: •mberoii less than 30 out of 103 H\tt- ' 'Ue whole uf I re land, worked tts .. cio:.. - team inside a n d outside cf Par-lauic.. ' . Backed by the United Irish Leag..-' in Ireland, and its counterpart in Brnary 'he I r i sh question was made an Innv:..-. - ly insistent one.

Desc . t ing their ceaseless guerilla war-tare Jw Pa r l i amen ta ry Committees and on tl>;- floor ol' the House. Mr. Boland fight!;, pays full t r ibute to the excellent rest:1.:- . chieved by their " team .spirit.'' By ih.'j method of "collective security" Irish u i rate bills, previously agreed upon again and again, won first place in the Parian.- n ta ry ballots.

The pages of this all too slender book scarce]'; suffice to ruffle more than the sur-face cl Mr. Boland's crowding memories, ytit v-. are g ran ted m a n y tantalising g:imp;.t.v of redoubtable I r i sh personalities induct,xg Michael Flavin, renowned as the fastest speaker in the House.

The : ithor a t t r ibu tes "half an hour well spent jn a Whi tehal l office with Lloyd George.' at tha t time President of the Board of Trade, to his success in securing lor Ireland its Ir ish Nat ional Trade Mark lor wotld trade.

Mr. Boland is an a rden t Gael ic enthu-siast. and in a chapter devoted to the Ir ish language, he recalls the occasion when Tom C'Donnell. member for West Kerry, stunned the Brit ish Commons by address-ing it hi his native tongue in his maiden speech, establishing a precedent af ter 600 years. He was ruled out of order by the speaker, but Hansard , the official report, rose to the occasion, and O'Donnell's speech is given in the records in the cor-rect It ish type.

Some of Mr. Boland's predelictions, judgments, and loyalties do not stand up well to the test of history, but we can be grateful tha t he vouchsafes us a glimpse of I r ish history .

"THE N O V E L A N D T H E PEOPLE," by Ralph Fox (Cobbett, 8 /6) ' P H E reprint of this i m p o r t a n t essay by a

wiiter-in-arms. who died on the battle-fields of Spain as a member of the British Section of the In te rna t iona l Brigade, is impor tant to all s tuden ts of literature.

Ralph Fox believed " t h a t the novel is the most mpor ta iu gi f t of bourgeois or capitalist , civilisation to the world's imaginative culture. T h e novel is its g rea t adventure, its discovery of man." He tirelessly advocated for the contem-porary novel a "new rea l i sm" which would reveal man in h a r m o n y wi th the course of his tory; changing his condit ions in action "and able to become lord of his destiny." He looked upon the novel as having a shaky present and a great fu ture , the suc-cessor to the epic and the g rea t folk art of our civilisation.

Necessarily a controversial writer, it ma t t e r s little whether you disagree with some or many of his conclusions in this thought-provoking analysis. ' M r . Fox's valuable contribution to constructive l i terary criticism is t ha t he shakes you willy-nilly out of conventional evaluations and sets you th inking hard .

" I M A G E S F R O M T H E A R A B W O R L D " (Pilot Press) 9/6. ' T H E translators. Herber t Howarth and ' Ibrahim Shukral lah . readily admit the

difficulty of effecting contac t of any kind with a civilisation which h a s grown up largely separate f rom ourselves. In these 122 free t ranslat ions and paraphrases of Arah prose and poetry, r ang ing from the magnif icent odes of the s ixth century to living writers, they harve sought to con-vey the quality of the remote Arab world in te rms of the language and ideas of recent Western poetry. Whi l s t your be-wildered reviewer mus t confess tha t too many of the result ing t rans la t ions convey only "confusion worse confounded," this courageous anthology con ta ins much tha t Is profound and exciting. We glimpse a land rich in literary treasure which we may one day enjoy in its fullness. A.K,

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out Honest Ir ishman of i w r v eia.-s and

creed must vv'eome the lttct that such an yifort litis hern made e ;en if it he necessary to criticise some o: tile weak-nesses apparent irom a perusal (,i ihe book..

The book, tuif.ori unately. appio-r i f the problem Irom tile angle oi telling the people of Ireland what is good tor them. Pe rhaps it was thought that tins was necessary, but we believe an even better job—and we welcome the present pro-posals—could have been done, hart the plain people of Ireland heen permitted to express what they. too. lequired f rom a newly-planned Ireland.

The plain people of I re land have several excellent organisations which arc speci-ally qualified to give f i rs t -hand advice on the wants and needs of the people, and the fact t ha t the National Planning Con-ference does not appear to have drawn on the Labour Party and Trade Unions for help in the early s tages of the ven-tuie . lends an air of unreal i ty to the pro-posals in the book. Several contributors appear to be conscious of this weakness, and also of the deliberate avoidance of con-troversial economic issues whieh must be sett led before any p lanning can be made effective.

Everyone must atrrce tha t most of the proposals in the plan a te essential s teps towards making Ireland a country fit to live in for working people, but. perhaps because they did not dare to face up to the economic and political implications of the whole plan, the various proposals tend to be considered ra ther in isolation f rom each other.

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Without being an expert in tibot • '•rent subjects, it is difficult to the articles m detail . For the :>. they appear to lie based on a car. 1 of existing conditions and of the t possibilities for improvement, take strong object ion hov.ovc r pi ucie on secondary education i;y dtis." who can see no object natural science, except in so i, chemistry and physics a te ess. ui.ai of a course ol ma themat ics .

This "gent leman" is alto a i:u-n e siasl for compulsory I at in or Gree all secondary schoolboys 'do the - i r is ye r

no secondary c d u c a t i o r . • . >nd advances the view that careful ly -selcc'ed" texts of ancient authors are the best trtiide to the problems of to-day.

His aim appearsjjpiain if the selection is by people who tmnit like himself. The argument tha t " the poor we have always with us" was not invented yesterday, and there were writers in ancient Rome as re-actionary as "Secundus."

But I do not want to be too carping in my criticism. This is a valuable book de-spite its weaknesses: there are valuable tables and appendices which will come as a revelation to many patriotic Irishmen, and I can confidently say that everyone interested in the f u t u r e of Ireland should buy it. study it. go to the exhibitions or-ganised by the Conference, and then, in a United Front, which will include the Labour Movement and the Planners, really set about get t ing an Ireland fit for Ir ishmen to live in. C.W,

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, "shareholders ' consist ei co-operative societies and individuals .r.ter. stcd in de-

! tive box-ct'aee oetweatt 'he people and. : their etueitatniner.t .

Air. C;region wrote -Roohtialc Pioneers" primat ih for the m.et- i i i-the-street. a n d b

- cag be perforated eyttaii-' on the floor of a room as in a then t re.

Trade union branches and ait nrogres-sive organisations car. book the play by applying to -people 's E n t e r t a i n m e n t Society." Pioneer House. Wicklow Street .

1 London. W.C.l. We recommend this play to the attet t-

| tion ot the Irish Labour Movement. " I t ' s ! a reel good show!" a . K .

Laboratory of Democracy N E W Z E A L A N D : A W O R K I N G D E M O C R A C Y . — B y Walter Nash (Dent ) 8'6.

t SMILING land little bigger than the United Kingdom, whose population of

1.641.000 enjoys full employment and good wages, with guaranteed security against accidents, old age and invalidity. A land f a r away from the main centres of civil-isation. bounded by vast oceans, where the chi ldren enjoy equality of educational op-portuni t ies from the k indergar ten to the university.

This is not a description of Sir Thomas Moore's "Utopia." but the reali ty presented by New Zealand, a count ry which little more than a century ago was largely an undeveloped wilderness, and which to-day, as a young and progressive democracy, ex-ercises an influence deservedly quite out of proportion to the size of her population.

Her story, told by Mr. Wal ter Nash, its F inance Minister, reads a lmost too good to be true were it not for voluminous ap-pendices substant ia t ing his history of what h a s been achieved already, and what it is hoped to achieve in the fu tu re .

Pract ical sanity dist inguishes this suc-cessful laboratory of democracy. Follow-ing the advent of the Labour Party to power in 1936, as long ago as 1938. New-Zealand 's pre-visioned Social Security Act out-Beveridged the Bevendge belatedly Ijmbraced by the British Government to-day. Spending £26,500.000 annual ly on its system of social security and benefits—a huge sum for the size of the population, New Zealand grants benefi ts which are in many instances considerably In excess of benefi ts proposed by lauded proposals in o the r countries to-day.

Child allowances, for instance, s tand a t 10s. 6d.; a widow with one child receives 40s. 6d. weekly, and a l though unemploy-ment benefit for a marr ied couple is slightly less than the Br i t i sh scales, viz. 35s., each child receives 10s. 6d. a week.

Recording tha t only by a process of trial and error has the social and economic

; order been fashioned on right lines, Mr. 1 Nash says tha t long, ha rd years of pioneer-| ir.g in a new and undeveloped country, j t.iade New Zealanders early realise t h a t

"the individual can only thrive if all join in helping one ano the r . " The modern problem "is one of knowing how to dis-tribute and how to consume properly the gif ts of nature and the f rui ts of produc-tive labour."

A firm believer in the principles of the Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms, the world would be wise to heed his post-war adjura t ion: "Economic individualism will not solve our problems. It will take collective planning, both to make the best of our resources and to ensure that human needs are satisfied to the utmost."

C A N A D A T O D A Y & T O M O R R O W : By W. H. Chamberlain (Hale) 12'6. ' r l , 'HE product of a stay of several months J - in Canada, this book ofTcr-, a lively pic-

ture of modern Canada, its war effort, per-sonalities and economics, along with some tentative suggestions as to the probable Canadian future. Canada has travelled a long way from the day when one of her French governors, Denonville, felt obliged regretfully to report: "I cannot tell you how attractive this Indian life is to all our youth. It consists of doing nothing, caring for noth-ing. following every inclination and getting out of the way of all correction."

Mr. Chamberlain has much to say that is illuminating concerning the vexed problem of the dominion's racial minority"—French-speaking Quebec. Holding the view that English-speaking Canadians would never be content to leave their Atlantic coast de-fences "under the control of a secessionist and presumably not very friendly stale, he believes that the extreme solution of political separation does not appeal even to the ma-jority of French Canadians, but he cau-tiously refrains from concrete prophecy.

This conscientious handbook sheds a com-mendable degree of illumination u|xm the problems of a continent still too little known to English-speaking fellow-travellers.

A N N E K E L L Y .

Husky - Voiced Marlene

W H E N I chat ted to blonde, httsky-; ' ' voiced Marlene Dietr ich in her Lon-; dor. hotel, where she was staying for a ! few days en routs f rom Iceland to France, ! in her six months tour enter ta in ing Allied i troops. I discovered tha t her glamour sur-j vtves even the temporary affliction of a I taiiicvm.

Wi th her million-dollar legs, up-til ted i eyebrows, carntined nails and incredible I eye-lashes, Marlene is a regular trouper. | She has forsaken Hollywood until the end | of the war and does not get a penny fo r

her round-the-world trips in Army jeeps I and aeroplanes, en te r ta in ing the f ron t -| line troops and wounded in hospitals

wherever she and her five companions find them. She acts in a min imum of two to three two-hour shows daily.

"Lili Marlene." "Boys in the Backroom' ' a n d "Destry Rides Again" are the th ree request items most f requent ly called for, a n d when Marlene sings them to her uni-formed audiences she is resplendent in sequin dresses.

Marlene doesn't take any chances when travelling. A St. Chris topher medallion dangles from her wrist, and to make quite sure she wears ano ther lucky St. Christo-pher silver nail on the side of her shoe.

A.K.

i MAKXISM TODAY S I K H S

MARXISM ami MODERN

IDEALISM JOHN LEWIS, B.Sc., Ph.D.

An examination of the outlook on the world >f such men as Joad.

Jeans and Eddineluu.

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L i iwrcnce a n d U i s l . a . l l i d

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I R I S H F R E E D O M iNovember, 1944

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ia :::d a journal that ;, • • :y expiess the Ci lie Irish people n.'tis then being pub-

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BALLADRY i IS talent and enthusiasm were con-•- Young men ua ihercd round le JC.uion." lagei to help and in no ji: une.it v. .;s iheir success greater than lha: of sons writing. In a fairly early

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ROUSING JOURNAL • :,i.il i iu ina i s the major i ty vt.'M-r host le u: the nat onal

• '..• >:m on the eeesLon. or dull : t v . p.'isies' < hrenicies ot the

ol the Repeal Association, three young men Thomas Davis

and John Dillon (the barristers) and Charles Gavan Duffy (the journalist) — wanted a journal that would break entirely with conventional dullness- a iournal that would do more than merely follow at the tail ot 0 Connell and his Association in recording what was said at its public meet-ings and publishing its formal announce-ments.

They wa' :'ed a journal that vould. S'i to sa- p ish on ah-ad of the c a n sad Association, to roust and educate a na t iona l opinion favourable to an advanci of the Association. organisationally and politically.

Duffy. who had a natura l talent fo: ' l v work d'-v: ioned ! y cans u-: • -.</:• c w : « —™> found the ntonev a«t< 'oo'-' over the ed tor-ship D iv s and Dillon lie reued upon a = his chief contributors.

PROSPECTUS "I N their piospectus they announced their

object . t o be "To foster a public opinion :n Ireland, and make it racy of the soil." It was a worthy object. Inciden-tally. it marked the lirst real advance upon the "Northern Star" in 50 years. The ambit ion to make their journal "racy" of the soil, their conception of their purpose as to " fos te r" a public opinion in I re land, placed them in the same category as the founde is of "The United Irish Journa l . " but a .so showed them conscious of the need and the ability to make a wider and more popular appeal.

This abil i ty came in par t f rom the exist-ence ol a wider range of literacy. I t also came, in par t , from a drast ic shr inking of Gae l t ach t—the area in which the native Ir ish G relic was the sole, or at any rate the d o m i n a n t speech.

It should be noted that the three were, between them, representative of the mam racial t r ends in the Irish nat ional stock. Dillon, a Catholic from Mayo, was of old Gaelic stock, crossed with N o r m a n - I r s h l iom Si longbow's time, Duffy, a No-th of Ireland Catholic, was basically Gaelic, but with some admixture in the femali- line, cf p lan te r stock. Davis, a Corkman by birth, a P io tes tan t son of an English A-my surgeon, was on the mother ' s side de-scended f rom highly aristocratic Gaels.

Events were to show that the son of the Englishman was the one with the keenest • nd most comprehensive sense of Irish nationality, and the one who was most deeply concerned for the preservation of Its language and the recovery of its native Gaetlic culture.

HIGH STANDARDS 1 \ U F F Y with his wider practical ex-* p r " l i r e was foremost as leader. All

were eager to produce a new type of jour-nal. Th '" . insisted upon good pr in t ing ; upon g ' o d writ ing; above all they regarded du l in iv : a - the seven deadly sins rolled into o

Th i . admired the utility of a railway time-table, or a statistical digest; and they sough t to emulate their accuracy. But t h ' y w r e convinced they would be most effective as instructors and as guides, if they made the.r journal a plea-f .ire ib read

To this end they did not disdain the arts cf the ballad-singer, who in Ireland, has an undying popular appeal. In every

S t i r l i n g verse

\ a young Tnnity College student was ed for a moment f rom his normal :siR. to write what nearly became the

a ar song of "Voune It eland"—the ever-lopuiar baliacl. "Who Fiat 's to Speak of ;>8" a ballad which earned the distinc-oii of being ottered as evdence in a State

: a! for seditious conspiracy. Another .-••liter. John O Hagan. a i tonvards a High

iur! jnriec. wro'e. under a pen-name. which rivalled Davis' best. ITS PROSE

speaking, of course, the Tile N Uion" was usually a

toon deal better than i 's verse. But al-though Davis Duffy and Dillon and others wrote excellently iaf ter the dea th of Davis. John Mitchel joined the comp 'iy. their c-says could not be sung and "ould no! there-fore have the same evocative force.

Tnere is also this: In e. prose ar tcie. a writer ti'.ows himself and :s

custom allowed. ;r : -h . ss license than •s pi . -.<-> -le in a

w <T \ I C T L Y vose of

Gaelic. realt-tie sen.-i ot t lie riuTU.eu He was i r r i taa d to .•<•» "The N-.i'ior' lin-ing a popularity and a sale tliai far ex-ceeded m a t ol any of hie. " family" 01 "house" journals. He was never over-willing io tolerate "rivals, near t he throne." and policy was reinforced here by per-sonal pique, and the t emperamen ta l in-compatibil i ty of "crabbed age a n d youth."

"The Nation" was. indeed, sp ' . iui .dly and gloriously . o u t h f u l - e v e n lo exuoei-ance—and when somebody with an allu-sive eye on Koine's "Young G e r m a n y " and Mazzini's "Young Italy." dubbed "The Nat ion" group "Young I re land." O'Con-nell took rui early chance lo say. with an a s tu t e demagocic combination of scnl imen-talism, spite and cunning, tha t he was for "Old Ireland, and always had been."

T h e n the sense grew in O'Connell that "The Nat ion" wae. consciously or uncon-sciously. pushing him f u r t h e r t han he wanted lo go.

He was, actually, and with master ly skill, t rying to put over a giganiic bluff.

MONSTER MEETINGS i CAMPAIGN which began wi th meet-

- * mgs held simultaneously in nearly every par ish in Ireland, led up through s imultaneous county meetings, to monster regional meetings ' a t t ended by numbers of incredible ex eni - r u n n i n g up, in some est imates, to half ae.d th ree-quar te r s of a mill ioni . The who-- we.s designed to cul-mina t e in the all. a meetuie field where Bri the Danes.

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most gigantic mee t ing of a Cio'.Ua-f. on the b.itlle-i Boru freed I re land from

The Ionic implicit in the series was tha t e ther the mass demand ot the I r i sh people would be complied with c . r of hand , or the tut.ted mass of the Irish

Dav.s was an ardent man. the son of a soldier, wi th aspirat ions h nisei 1 towards a mil i tary career. But as a responsible politician. D a v K for all his instinctive re-publicanism and democracy would have thought several times before he put into plain prose the sent iment of his ballad "Native Swords."

"Wha t is the tone of the new journal?" he asked.

"Wolfe Tone!" said Plunket . sufficiently and decisively. He was qualified to judge; as a young man he had known Wolfe Tone in the flesh. He could not fail to detect the k inship of spirit.

THE MIRACULOUS VOICE ' T H I S was to prove fa te fu l . "The

Nat ion" was an amazing success; and it did what its promoters had hoped it would do. It galvanised the semi-mori-bund Repeal Association into action and exuberant life.

The flaming-up of enthusiasm in the As-soc.at ion. and m the popular masses on its f rame, set fire to O Connell himself. •Soon he embaiked upon the most gargan-tuan of all his agi tat ions—the monster

•eetings campi ign of 1843. "This." he sa d. as the year opened, "and make no -oybt abou ' it i: to be the Yenr of Re-peal!"

O'Connel! w is a wonderful ag i ta tor - -v lii a mi ra -u ' c ' i s vo.ee tha t carried in-credible dis tances wh'le losing none of its f i scmat ine mallow and musical charm. Also he had. to a superlative degree, the knack of p la t form oratory. It is clear from the upshot that he was tha t ideal orator -the one who grasps intuitively what his auclien-e is hoping he will say and who c u s ' a l l i s e s m ' o words tha t ex-tort tenfold admirat ion because they ex-press in compact concreteness what his hearers were all subconsciously struggling to express

THE BREAK V BREAK between O'Connell and the young men of "The Nation," who

tried to be. and genuinely thought they were, his followers, was bound to come sooner or later.

There was the element of personal jealousy.

O'Conr.ell was. naturally, vain of his position of "uncrowned king of I r s land"

but vain to the point of childishness, and the eclipse, at that point, of his native

fHE H o n

people would of itself and f rom itself find its own remedy.

SEPARATION ' ( ' H E trouble was. however, t h a t O'Con-

nell didn ' t at all want to conquer— except in a "Pickwickian sense." He wanted to f r igh ten the Bri t ish Govern-ment in to offering a compromise. He de-sired an Irish Par l iament it is t rue ; but he desired it as a means of const i tut ion-ally binding Ireland closer to England , not in the least as the first s tep toward separation.

Young Ireland, on the contrary , in the main unconsciously—but consciously in the case of Davis and a few others—de-sired separation. And w hen O Connell had a morbid horror of a n y t h i n g t h a t in i he least resembled the French Revolution —he called Tone and the United I r i shmen miscreants" for their a rden t Jacobin

sympathies—the Y'ounn Irelanders , took Tone and the United I r i shmen as their ideal, and loved to imagine themselves in United Ir ish uniforms, "on the C u r r a g h of Kildare. with the p.kes in good repa i r ! "

Basically, the incompatibili ty was com-plete. The only question was. when and how would the break come.

THE ATTACK

INHERE is no need to follow the histori-cal process fu r the r The British

Government knrw O'Connell was bluffing, and they "called his bluff " They poured troops into Dublin, and less than 24 hours uefore the meeting was due. proclaimed the Clontarf meetinc

It was an in.equivocal challenge—to fight or surrender And as O 'Connell had never intended to fight, and had made, and would make no prepara t ions lor such an easily foreseeable emergency, he sur-rendered covering up dexterously by claiming that by prompt ac ' ion he had extricated the people from the "massacre" the Government had planned

If the Government had rested then, and left things to take their codrse. there would almost certaiDly have been a split, greatly to the advantage of Young Ireland, with "The Nation" at Its head. The Gov-ernment. however, thought fit to "rub it in." They prosecuted O'Connell and others for "seditious conspiracy." a n d in-cluded Gavan Duffy as editor of "The Nation." in the indictment.

T h e prosecution: '.he conviction in- ,i scandalously picked jury; the imprison-men t of O Council and the oliieis; the appeal to the House of Lords, said the quash ing of the conviction and indictment —all these things restored O'Connell s " face" and credit, and s imul taneous^ rallied all tendencies into uni ty against the common enemy. Jus t when O'Con-nell 's author i ty was most imperilled, the Government attack re-established it ami even enhanced it.

Men of prominence, such as 'illiam Smi th O'Brien—a protectant , a i iciloro. an independent M.P.—but a l ineai descen-dan t of Brian Boru, were d rawn into the Repeal Movement. During the tr ial and imprisonment , Smith O'Brien and Davis virtually ran the Association and "The Nat ion" in double-harness.

EDUCATION I \ AVIS initiated and establ ished an in-

valuable network of Repeal reading-rooms, which, through the agency of volunteer school teachers and the admir-able little volumes inst igated by "The Nat ion"—"The Spirit of the Nat ion ' ' and McNevin's "History of the Volunteers of '82" were amongst the first, Dr. Kane's " Indus t r ia l Resources of I r e l and" soon fol-lowed—became a powerful and invaluable educat ional basis for the movement . An All-Ireland Council and a sys tem of arbi-t ra t ion courts, conducted by magis t ra tes sympathe t ic to Repeal who h a d resigned their commissions in piotest a t Govern-menta l coercion, ant icipated strikingly Sinn Fein developments. Every th ing was m t r a in for the development of a demo-cratically centralised organisat ion, equip-ped increasingly with an adequa te theo-retical unders tanding which would find ever clearer expression in the practice of the political struggle.

IF— I F O'Connell, on his release, had

acquiesced in the new depar tu res of Davis and O'Brien—and he could easily have claimed all the credit with their con-sent ; if he had encouraged t h e m to per-severe; if Davis had lived to persevere, wilh or without O'Connell's he lp ; if Ire-land h a d been left to take a no rma l course of development; if, if if —!

Nobody knows what might have hap-pened; everybody knows or should know, what happened. O'Connell pre tended to acquiesce and to approve; bu t by passive resis tance and active underground intrigue worked the organisation to "as-you-were" —to the plane of demagogic "monarchy" and superficial emotional agi ta t ion , cul-mina t ing in the worst sort of opportunis t politics. To gain freedom for this, he sought occasions for quarrel wi th Young I re land and "The Nation."

At t he critical moment <1845) two calamit ies happened. Davis died sud-denly of scarlatina, and an epidemic blight fas tened on the potato crop in I re land.

F rom the death of Davis, the most m a t u r e and best balanced intell igence in the movement , proceeded all the immatur-ity, all the vacillations, the lapses into hyster ia , a l ternat ing with despair , shown by Young Ireland in its foredoomed pro-gress toward overt republicanism and in-surrect ion. From the potato bl ight and the f a m i n e it begot (with the landlord's aid i. proceeded the fact t h a t when the call to revolt came, the men who should have responded were either cold in the grave, fled for food overseas, or too cowed by ca lami ty to lift a finger.

THE DECLINE I N the critical days of 1848, Mitchel ' broke with "The Nat ion" a n d found

his "United Irishmen." When Mitchel was a r res ted and sent as a "convicted felon" overseas. John Martin and Fmtan Lalor took his place with the "I r i sh Felon." which lasted a month. Duffy, at last, joined "The Nation" to the call for insur-rection. and he, too, was suppressed Mart in was transported; Duffy was ae qui t ted; Lalor. a dying man, was never brought to trial.

Af ter an interval Duffy re-s tar ted "The Nation." but it was never the s ame again In its heyday it outshone all competitors, and ga thered round it a br i l l iant com-pany of writers—a constellation t h a t has never been outshone, with Davis outstand-ing as i t s polar star.

I t was well-worthy of a more happier fate.

Printed bv Ripley Printing Society Ltd. (T.U.). Ripley. Derbys., and published by

• the Editor. Premier House, 150 Southamp-ton Row, London, W.C.I.