The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-05-04
Opposition to Con-
seriiptisa In Ireland
General Observance Of Holiday Protest
BY the Labor Unions
Against It.
WARNING OF THE
CATHOLIC HIERERcHY
Joseph DevIin Cites the Carson Prece.
81 dent In justification of lreland.s
Present Position, s.,.4 g =.
Forced levies Would Not Be Neces-
80, sary If Self Government
Were Granted.

Were Granted.
Dublin, April q. - Thousands of
members of the various trade unions
in Ireland left off all work on Tuesday
as self imposed protest against con-
scription and as an outward evidence
they purpose to resist any attempt to
enforce it. No bread or milk was de-
llvered and more than 10000 railroad
men, including clerks and station mas
tiers, quit work.
No violence has been reported and
none is anticipated, the various unions
generally having accepted the deci-
sion of the Trade Congress on Satur-
day.
Dublin, says the report, is idle.
Tramway and transport men have
stopped work, as we'll as engineers,
carpenters, electricians, tailors, drap-
ers and blacksmiths. s'' ~
So far as trades union labor is con-
| cerned, to prove it's able influence
over its members, the day was gen.
eral holiday. No previous attempt to
stop tramways and trains ever has
completely succeeded in Ireland, but
this is the first time any such move
mas been able to rely on high eccle-
slastical and political approval. The
event is not a strike in any ordinary
sense, but is a demonstration with a
political object s: - 81 "ft
The Dublin Corporation has ex-
Drassnd opntovoI "a AZ, a..:~.. ~ /.
its employees to abstain from all work.
Sixteen Kings Counsel, including
two of the three sergeants.at-law have
issued a statement approving and
adopting the declaration of the Cath
Ole Hierarchy on CONSUMPTION.
The Dublin city electricity depart.
ment has announced stoppage Of
lighting from 6 a. IN. until 6 o'clock
i'll the evening. Saloonkeepers of the
city unanimously decided to close.
owing to decision of the printers
to cease work newspapers printed by
trades union labor did not appear.
The military authorities have taken
over control of the principal Irish rail.
ways, the post Offices and telephone
exchanges. The police on Saturday
removed all arms and ammunition
from gunsmith shops in Dublin and
|-lt is reported that similar action will
be taken throughout Ireland.
The Bishop Of Cloyne, addressing a
large audience at Queenstown, said
the Irish were up against powerful
and INSCRIPTIONS adversary who was
without heart or sympathy for long
suffering Ireland, but gave warning to
avoid collision with the armed forces
OF Great Britain and to beware of
snares set to trap them into it.
Nowhere does any disturbance or
even excitement seem to have &C.
Cured either at the pledge-tahne
meetings or at numerous political
gatherings at which CONSUMPTION was
denounced in strong terms.
Joseph Devlin, in speech at Bel
fast, said that the Irish were in a DO.
s1t1on of being able to defend their
action on the notable precedent set
by Sir Edward Carson and his friends
by forming a revolutionary party
against the Home Rule bill. "Today,"
ne said, I'VE are followers of Carson"
Warning Of the Irish Hierarchy.
AT the meeting of the EPISCOPAL
Standing committee on Tuesday. his
Eminence, Cardinal Logue in the
chair, the following protest against
CONSUMPTION was unanimously adopt-
ed:
Statements have recently been ap-
pearing in the press to indicate that
the Government intend to include this
country in a measure Of conscription.
whether there is any foundation for
these rumors we know not at the mo.
ment.
But since the outbreak Of hostilities
four years ago the War Office has
SHOWN such utter lack of real touch
with Irish conditions that it is quite
possible something may be now pro-
posed which, If attempted, would only
crown the disasters which want of
knowledge and want Of sympathy has
already entailed.
10 enforce CONSUMPTION here with.
out the consent Of the people would
De perfectly unwarrantable, and would
soon and inevitably end in defeating
Its own purposes.
Had the Government in any reason.
able time given Ireland the benefit of
the principles, which are declared to
be at stake in the war, by the conces-
sion of full measure of self.govern.
ment, there would have been no occa-
sion for contemplating forced leyies
from her. now.
What between mismanagement and
misunderstanding this country has Al.
ready been deplorably upset, and #
would be a fatal mistake, SURPRISING
the worst blunders of the past four
years, to furnish a telling plea now
for desperate courses by an attempt
to enforce CONSUMPTION.
With all the responsibility that at.
taches to our pastoral office we feel
bound to warn the Government
against entering upon policy 80 dis.
astrous to the public interest, and to
all order, public and private