Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-28
.PRO4R|SH WOMEN'S
PROTEST AIMED At
ALL BRITISH SHIPS
Longshoreman Strike in New
York May Spread to Other
Atlantic Ports.
BY the Associated Press.

pS ihe 1sSo'iIteu IEeSS.
NEW YORK. August 2s.-Hostili-
ties were resumed today by the five
pro-lrish woman pickets who yester-
day started demonstration that re-
suited in a walkout of more than 1000
iongshoremen employed on British
ocean liners as protest against
Great Britain's Irish policy.
The women returned to the piers
with large cohort of longshoreman
supporters intent on Gripping all
j also were said to be on foot to spread
the protest strike to other Atlantic
ports and to extend it, if possible. to
ship crews as we'll as longshoremen.
Although the longshoremen out de-
clared they would not return to work
until Archbishop ManniN, Australian
prelate, had been permitted to enter
| ireland and Lord Mayor MacSweney
London. their stand was not expected
to prevent the sailing today of a
number of ships due to clear port dur
! ing the day. Officials of the Cunard
| line and the International Mercantile
Marine said the walkout had not in
clud ed any members of the crews. and
that, if necessary. the ships would
clear with incomplete cargoes.
| Demonstration Started Yesterday.
The demonstration started yesterday
upon the arrival in port of the steam
ship Baltic. on which Archbishop
Mannix sailed several weeks ago and
from which he was removed by Brit
ish officials at Penzance. England,
without being allowed to disembark
on Irish soil. The woman pickets
were on the pier when the ship
docked. displaying placards denounc-
ing England'S Irish policy. one of
them reading: when Mannix goes to
Ireland, let the Baltic leave New
York" Irish sympathizers among the
longshoremen Immediately caught the
spirit the placards meant to convey
anu started demonstration that soon
spread to other ships. both British
and American. Loading and unload
on the Celtic. Olympic. Canopic. Goth
land. Finland. St. Paul. Aquitania and
Pannonia and also on a number of
freighters.
Aimed at British Boats.
The pickets yesterday started out
to tie up every British ship in port.
but announced that they would not
attempt to hamper work on any craft
flying the American flag.
1t was a scene of wild confusion
along the water front. Hundreds of
excited men and women ran along
West street gathering recruits as they
dashed from pier TO pier. Entering
each dock and swarming up the
gangways of the ships. the throng
cried: "All off, At virtually each
stopping place the crowd was Joined
by dock workers. and here and there
a. stray seaman was seen to take his
place in the ranks.
Yesterdays Irish picketing was not
the first in this city since the Irish
question became acute with the progress
Of the hunger strike instituted by Ter
0Y,(sra nr1 mo af arl-
now dying in a. British Jail, but it was
the first time that pckets had appeared
at any place other than the British
consulate on Whitehall street. There
women bearing pro-Irish signs have been
promenading since Monday.
Among those who marched were Mrs
Harry Taylor Upton, vice chairman of
the executive committee of the repub-
lican national committee, who aided
Mrs. Gait in her Nashville work; Miss
Charl Williams. who occupies a similar
position in the democratic campaign
Mrs. v. Everett Macy and Mrs. Will H.
Hays, wife of the republican campaign
leader.
Mass Meeting in New York.
A fve-minute ovation greeted one
hundred striking members of the Bal
tics crew when they marched into a
thcater here tonight, where a. mass
meeting protesting MacSWeneyS I'M
prisonment was in progress.
The gathering. which numbered near
ly 1000, was addressed by Frank p
Walsh chairman of the American COM
mission on Irish independence, and
canon de Valera. president of the Irish
republic
A collection was taken for the 1000
participants in New York's first purely
political waterfront strike. Walsh said
5000 more men would quit work on
British shipping here in the fight for
Ireland"
with the cold-blooded assassination
of Terence MacSweney will come about
the downfall of England" said Walsh.
king George will be directly RESPONSE
BILE for this assassination. Of the men
who left the Baltic today $50 were
native born Englshmen."
De Valera said that 100000 men in
Ireland were ready and willing to do
what MacSweney is doing, if they are
put to the test.
"MacSweney does not want to die"
said de Valera. but he knows that on
his fortitude and determination more de-
ponds for Ireland than the fate of an
army corps. If he dies, it will not be
suicide, as the Britain contend, but he
will die as a soldier in battle. and his
death will be on the hands of the
enemy"