The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-04-28
DRASTIC ACTION
IN LIMERICK TO
STOP EXPORTS
A Vigilance Committee Appointed
Citizens to Watch All Outgoing
Transports for Food Supplies.

A Vigilance Committee Appointed
Citizens to Watch All Outgoing
Transports for Food Supplies.
A largely attended meeting week
ago last Monday in Limerick, Ireland,
appointed Vigilance Committee to
watch the docks, markets, and rail-
way station to see that no necessary
foodstuffs are exported. Transport
workers were called on not to handle
potatoes for export. The city master
bakers were appealed to to make one
pound loaves so as to suit the pockets
of the poor. The chairman (Ald. Nc
Neece) said if they were to maintain
their food supplies they should take
the bull by the horns. Mr.. O'Flynn,
TIC, said the fixing of a lower price
for Irish than for English bacon was
a move to kill the Irish bacon trade.
Mr.. S. O'Mara said there is enough
Irish bacon to supply the Irish people
for many long day. Potatoes were
being shipped every other day, des-
pite the statements of Messrs. Russell
and Duke The High Sheriff and sew
eral corporators were present.
Complaints were made at meeting
of the executive, Irish Branch, Sur
veyors' Institution, as to the prices
charged by seedsmen for seed pota-
toes, and as to the confusion and un-
certainty caused by the number and
frequently changed rules published by
the Department of Agriculture.
Coming Potato Crop.
: A resolution was unanimously
adopted, impressing on the Depart
ment of Agriculture the vital impor-
lance of enforcing Order No. 178, G;
stating that the action of seedsmen
generally is detrimental to the much
required growth of an extra potato
crop; that prices charged are alto
gether out of proportion to the maxi
mum price allowed to growers, and
should be limited to the food retail
ers' maximum. 1t was suggested that
Department announcements regarding
the fixing of prices, etc., should not be
inserted in the press before they are
formally issued to the proper author
tiles, and that they should be dis
played on every Irish police barrack
and market house.
Everything in the way of Irish TIL
lage, according to Mr.. T. w. Russell,
MP, is going on very well, but the
real crux will begin tomorrow, when
auctions of land to be let in conacre
and acquired by the Department, will
be held in some parts of the country.
Answering Mr.. Devlin in Parlia-
ment, Mr.. Duke said the general pro-
vision as to Irish local authorities pur-
chasing seed potatoes locally under
the loan scheme were found impracti-
cable. In certain cases local authori-
ties had been able to make arrange
ments without loan. Where a loan
was required the arrangements al
ready announced were deemed essen
tial. ........
TownspeopIe Without Potatoes.
A resolution proposed at the Drog-
heda Corporation by Mr.. MCGOWAN,
President of the Trades Council, that
the police and military be empowered
to seize all stocks of potatoes with.
held from market, was amended by
striking out the reference to police
and military, and simply calling the
attention of Mr.. T. w. Russell to the
present hardship to town dwellers
Only few tons of tubers arrived
in Dublin on Thursday, and four tons
in Belfast-one-tenth of the usual sup
ply-and the same state of affairs
prevails in several parts of the coun
try. Vegetables fetch fancy prices
and tempting offers come from Eng
land for turnips, parsnips and cab
bages. There were only Is cwt. Of
potatoes weighed in Cork market, but
several tons came by train for retail
ers at prices not divulged. Glasgow
Corporation declined to receive dep
utation of women demonstrators OF
the potato question, the Lord Proves
telling them to go home and mind thu
children, and four Socialist members
who INSTRUCTED the proceedings were
suspended.