The Irish Worker

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"The principle of state and mean to stand upon is—that 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." James Finlan Laker. Registered at O.P.O. Transmissible through at magazine rule of Kingdom at newspaper rate, and to Canada and New Ireland at magazine rule of postage. Edited by Jim LARKIN. No. 17.—Vol. III.] DUBLIN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th, 1913. ONE PENNY.] LARKIN IN JAIL. Murder in the Streets—Citizens Brutally Maltreated—Hired Assasins Endeavour to Kill Trades Unionism BY IRELAND'S EVE. 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 yoke 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 tactics have been employed to destroy the past year, but all the efforts of the miscreants and tyrants infesting Dublin Castle, who planned the attack upon indefensive citizens which resulted in murder and outrage, can only stop the march of progress for a little time. Twenty years ago the same faction were in Ireland. The people were bludgeoned indices mandated, and their leaders, Parnell, hassed with all the vitupention and insult that one could possibly conceive. A gutter Press, similar to that one in existence to-day, was then founded in destroy the people, and it is a remarkable coincidence that of the founders of that surprised newspaper was William Martin Murphy, one of the Bantry gang, who at the present moment, through his influence with Dublin Castle, and those in created power holding shares in the Transport ways, has set the city in turmoil and had such desolation as has never before been witnessed in living memory. William Martin Murphy and the permanent officials of the Irish Government are responsible for the murder of poor Nolan and for the outrages perpetrated by blood ruffians in possession with a lust for influence can never wipe away the stain or efface the singer which must ever attach to their names. Despite the crill effects of the Bantry gang, Parnell has long been vindicated, and a monument has been created to his memory in the Capital City of the country he loved so well. Jim Larkin, like Parnell, has been defamed; he has fought and suffered in defence of the most despite trodden of the people, and despite the machinations of the capitalist cowards or calaminator, he will carry triumphantly the banker of Labour to the higgest pinnacle. The danger whom comes from the weak-kneed and irresolute must be made feel in this hour of danger the necessity for strong and united action. Larkin instinctions foul and loathsome as the human reptiles from whom they emanate are being freely circulated by our enemies, and being possib…