The Washington times., 1920-10-19
IS
/. UNDER GUARD
Parliament damned by Police
As Crowds Mass in
Demonstrations.
NATION AT BAY TODAY
Irish and Miners at Fever Heat
as Session Opens for
Grave Action.

LONDON, Oct. 19.-Coal strike
disorders, during which Welsh rpfr-
ers sang the evolutionary song,
"The Red Flag," we're reported to-
day from Pandy, Wales This wne
the first outbreak in W2ies since the
strike started, Saturday night.
The police attempted TO break np
strikers, but the latter resisted and
| fighting followed. Stones were
thrown and many windows were
/ broken.
Police endorsements were
orcaght up and the disorderly
strikers finally dispersed.
GLANDS orr IRELAND
Two demonstrations. one in behalf
OF irish freedom and the other against
unemployment, ushered in the new
session OF Parliament this afternoon.
warned bg the savage rioting which
marked Mondays unemployment dem
onstrat,on. all available police re-
serves were massed about Whitehall
and Parliament building. Great
crowds blocked the streets.
Just as the House OF Commons was
being called to order a procession of
men and women marched through the
/ streets hsafing banners with such in
scriptions ms Hands on Ireland"
A large number OF unemployed men
and women broke up a meeting of the
London County Council. They were
+, elected and made a noisy demonstra-
ton in the streets outside
Premier Lloyd George addre)sed
the Commons and outlined a sch sme
for the alleviation OF unemployment
He was cheered by the members. The
Premier suggested that the unem-
pioyed among former soldiers be util-
lied in the building trades and in the
construction Of new roads, both in
London and the country districts. He
said that the cabinet hoped to secure
the cooperation of the trade unions
in solving the unemployment prob
lem.
COMMONS IN UPROAR-
Members Of the House of Commons
began to shoot questions at the gov
eminent on the Irish situation as soon
as Commons assembled. IN response
to one query, Sir Hamar Greenwood,
chief secretary for Ireland, said that
Terence McSwiney, the hunger-strik-
ing lord mayor OF Cork, had not been
fed nor would the government recede
| from the position it has taken re-
garding hunger strikers in prison.
Not since the war session" in 1914
have questions of such gigantic i'm
portance confronted the House OF
Commons.
In addition to unemployment two
other domestic question of stagger-
ing Importance call for parliamenta airy
action. They are:
1. The national coal strike, which
10 I'm firu nd nd no in
volved more than 1,5OO, 900 men and
women in voluntary or enforced
idleness.
2. The Irish situation, which is
more menacing than at any other
time in the country's history.
Actual war conditions prevail in
Ireland and the temper of the Sim
Feiners has been further inflamed
by the declaration of the premier
that the government will not grant
dominion home rule and by the
death of Michael Fitzgerald, one of
the Sim Fein hunger strikers in
the Cork Jail.
Britain's gigantic domestic aues-
tions have overshadowed, for the time
being. the international problems.
Since Parliament adjourned the fol-
lowing important developments have
taken place:
WHAT PARLIAMENT FACES.
I. Premier Lloyd George an
noupced that the government will
not grant dominion freedom to Ire
land and tho Slim Fctn declared that
n state of war existed In Ireland
2 The military police In ireland
began n systematic series Of re-
prisni attacks, destroying wAsls
towns
2. More than I.OO0.0Oe uAluewp
went on strike and the strsks
threatens 10 spread TO the railways
md docks
T. More thnn 100000 unewPleyeA
raep md women have united In or
ganiscd naitstions against the gov
errment.
=. Trnde negotiations between
Grent Britain and soviet Russia
were suspended.
q. soviet Russia and POLAND
signed peace.
on August 1e, after days of tense
ness parliament adjourned, leaving
the speakers empowered to recall tho
members on forty-eiRht hours notice
II the Russo Polish war demanded
British Intervention.
Since then the war clouds have been
dissipatcd. but their place has been
taken by home problems OF first mag
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