Be Irish Transport and General Workers Union. to get 3s. 6d to 7s a week for making crochet or lace, and 10½d a dozen for socks.
The children are kept at home to help with this wretchedly paid work, as a result, Government Blue Books admit that in country districts the proportion of illiteracy varies from 35 to 70 percent; 50 to 65 percent of illiteracy being most common.
The earnings of the people in these industries have fallen instead of rising in recent years. Government reports show that whereas in 1912-13 the total calllllys the ace-make Were £29,754 they had fallen in Dublin Easter Week 1916 1. So. Dublin Union: Under the command of Eamonn Ceannt (photo) this positionvital for its proximity to British HQ in Royal Hospital-was held by hand-to-hand combat till the Surrender. 2. Marrowbone Lane Distillery 3. Mendicity Institute: Scan Heuston (photo) and 23 men captured position to delay passage of British on north quays. They were ordered to hold for 3 or 4 hours, and held instead for 3. days. 4. Broadstone Railway Terminus 5. Four Courts: Under Edward Daly (photo) company destroyed Army Pay Center and captured British garrison. After heavy fighting, position was surrounded. 6. Dublin Castle 7. Portobello bridge 1914-15 to £11,680.
We learn that the kelp-making industry Which the people in the West of Ireland largely exist, is improving as a result of the War. Yet the Government inspector in this year's report states that an entire family in the best districts can earn f20 in a season, though years ago they could make f40.
Knowing these things, we understand why rebellion breaks Ireland, and we share the sorrow of those who are weeping there today for the Rebels whom the Government has shot. 8. Watkins Pistillery: Con Colbert (proto) was unable to noid with 15 men, and joined the group at Marrowbone! La. Distillery. 9. Dublin City Hall: Sean Connolly (plioto) took to contain British in Dublin Castle across the way. Position given up alter neary bombarament, entire company surrendered, and Connolly killed. 10. Jacob's Factory: Sean MacBride (photo) and Thomas MacDonagh led s'oup using lactory s towers as a vantage point for sniping.
I1. College of Surgeons: Countess Markievicz (photol took and held this position, commanding St. Stephen's Green, with fighting intermittent but costly. 12. Bank of Ireland these articles Uprising, as a suffragette. the struggle dependence VUL welcomed socialists today. 13. Post Office (photo): HQ of Provisional Gov't and signers of the Proclamation, set on fire and gutted by the British. 14. Liberty Hall 15. Trinity College 16. St. Stephen's Green 17. Shelbourne Hotel 18. Custom House Westland Row Railway Station 20. Gas Co. 21. Hammond Lane Foundry 22. Boland's Mills: Eamon de Valera (photo) commanded 5 companies with main objective of cutting British supply route on railway line through area. Fighting was extremely heavy, casualties high 23. Clanwilliam House Sylvia Pankhurst, the author of on the Easter is shown nere when she was in jail for her activities She supported for Irish inwarmly the Russian revolution a year later. She remains an inspiration for all revolutionary empire.
IRISH SEA
Veto determination.
SEVEN DECADES after the taster Rising, Ireland is still not free. James Connolly predicted that if the movement unleashed by the uprising was blocked by partition then a 'carnival of reaction' would follow. The legacy of the 1921 partition - a brutal sectarian statelet in the North and a South slavishly dependent on imperialism bear eloquent testimony to his foresight.
But it is not simply a question of the brutality of these states or the barbarity of the British Army's occupation which has to be condemned by British socialists. Marx explained that the British labour movement would never achieve.
anything until the enslavement of Ireland was broken.
The idea that the British workers alone will defeat the British ruling class is utopian and runs counter to the course of world history over the last century. This imperialist ruling class is based on the gains of a world From India to Zimbabwe when oppressed people have risen up they have fought our ruling class and have helped its decline.
But the South Atlantic war shows that this ruling class has not exhausted its capacity to fight like a cornered tiger to maintain its colonial possessions, and it fights no more tenaciously than in Ireland.
Britain's rulers know that a victory for the national liberation forces in Ireland would be a crippling blow for the repressive forces of the British state and in particular the capacity and morale of the Army. It would remove the Loyalist reac tonary bloc and open up the way for a socialist Ireland on Britain's , a potentially powerful ally of the British working class But despite this, Labour's current Manifesto proposals would still give the Loyalists a veto over progress towards Irish selfOpinion polls show that neither the Irish nor the British people are in favour of maintaining the British occupation. So why is the Labour left so slow in campaigning to remove the army which is the main defender of partition?
Despite the red-baiting smears of the Tories, disarmament has become one of the main electoral assets of the Labour Party because the left fought for straightforward unilateralist position.
A commitment to end the war in Ireland by pulling out the troops would have a similar effect. Ken Livingstone's popularity as a politi cian of principle is one proof of that.
Left The left of the labour movement should emulate his example by open. ing a dialogue with the nationalist community. If the right wing leader. ship of the Labour Party conspire with the Tories to prevent the representatives of the nationalist community — in particular Sinn Fein — coming to address audiences in Britain then the left must go to the north.
On the basis of such a dialogue the left can clarify why the next step for the Labour Party conference must be to break its bipartisan sup. port for the Loyalist veto. In immediate terms that means adding British voices to the campaign in the North to break up Prior's phoney Assembly.