The Irish Worker

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"The principle I state and mean to the entire ownership of Ireland, moral and material, up to the sun and down to the centre is rested of right in the people of Ireland." Jamis Fintan Lakin. Registered at G.P.O. Transmissible through the post in United Kingdom at newspaper rate, and to Canada and Newfoundland at magazine rate of postage. Edited by Jim LARKIN. No. 17.—Vol. III.] DUBLIN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 1913. Who defeat meaks of I tell you a like ours; Is greater than defeat can know— It is the power of powers. As surely as the rolls round As surely as the glorious sun blogs the great world moon wave Must our Cause be woal! LARKIN IN JAIL. Murder in the Streets—Citizens Brutally Maltreated—Hired Assasins Endeavour to Kill Trades Unionism By IRELAND'S EYE. Since I wrote in these columns events have travelled quickly. At the instigation of William Martin Murphy the Castle officials in Ireland who wish to tighten the joke under which the workers have so long and feebly struggled proclaimed Martin Law and imprisoned the Chief. Labour and Trades Unionism were becoming powerful, and those in authority were only waiting the opportunity to hamper them. The most unsurpulous methods and destroy the cities have been accomplished by Larkin in the past year, but all the efforts of the miscreants and tyrants infesting Dublin Castle, who planned the attack upon indifferent citizens which resulted in murder and outrage, can only stop the march of progress for a little time. Twenty years ago the same forces were at work in Ireland. The people were bludgeoned indiscriminately and their leader, Parnell, assailed with all the vituperation and insult that one could possibly conceive. A gutter Press, similar to that one in existence to-day, was then founded to destroy the people's Leader and it is a remarkable coincidence that one of the founders of that securitious newspaper was William Martin Murphy, one of the Bantry gangs, who had the present moment and those his influence with Dublin Castle, and those in high power holding shares in the Transways, has set the city in turmoil and created such desolation as has never before been witnessed in living memory. William Martin in Murphy and the permanent responsibility of the Irish Government are responsible for the murder of poor Nolan and for the outrages perpetrated by hired ruffians in uniform with a lust for blood; and the possession of wealth and influence can never wipe away the stain or afface the stigma which must ever attach to their names. Despite the evil effects of the Bantry gang, Parnell has long been vindicated, and a monument has been erected to his memory in the Capital City of the country he loved so well. Jim Larkin, like Parnell, has been defiamed; he has fought and suffered in defence of the most downtrodden of the people, and despite the machinations of the capitalist cowards or caluminator, he will carry triumphantly the banner of Labour to the highest pineale in the danger comes from the c…