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SUFFERING IN
IRELAND ACUTE
Quaker Relief Workers Disclose
Losses in Conflict.
PLACE DAMAGE At 20 MILLION
Declare Victims Number 100000 and
Are All People Who Have Refrain
ed From Participating in Armed
Activities.

Activities.
New York, April 1S-The American
committee for relief in Ireland mad,.
public Il report of an investigation
OF conditions i'll Ireland by unit Of
the Society of Friends iii which tile
QuakerS asserted that material dam
age inflicted by the British forces
within the pa,t twelve months
amounts TO approximately $2O,00O,-
0O0''
The unit, which was sent to Ireland
by the relief organization in Febru-
AIRY, also reported that there We're
$4,000 families in Ireland, number
ing approximately 100000 men, wo-
men and children. in pitiful need or
instant help from the American pcU-
pie"
These 100000 people, said the re-
port, signed by Samuel d. Mccoy,
Lead of the unit, were composed ZEN
tirely of men and women who have
quietly gone about their peaceful pur-
suits all their lives and who have
steadfastly refrained from taking part
in armed activities"
The report, the result of extensive
investigation in nearly 100 communi-
ties scattered throughout twenty-five
of the thirty-twO counties, was made
public, officials of the American COM
mittee said, in order that the Ampri-
can people may have the opportunity
of judging by this tirSt-hand evidence
of unbiased witnesses the extent of
the deStitutiOn and suffering which.
the American committee is confident,
they with their traditional generosity
will help to alleviate"
The repOrt did not &nclude an of
fiscal estimate of ''maliciouS damage"
done to the city OF Dublin. hut said
that between October. 1920, and March
1921. the claims for malicious in
juries. including both material dam
age and death. presented to the coun-
ty court for Dublin have amounted
to EJ94.S99
The awards granted cut these
claims to 5000 ,9oS," continued the re-
port. AT this moment we can haZ-
ard only the approximation that the
material lost in Dublin during the
past six months did not exceed E25.-
600"
The units figures of $4,000, 900 ma
teria1 damage in Ireland. the report.
"coincideS substantially with the total
figures collected by irish Republican
statistieianS, anC 1t should he poted,
are less by SS.0O0,0O0 than the esti-
mate given by a responsible crown
official who is informed in regarl to
the data in the possession Of the
crown.
The report estimated that to repair
the S20,0O0,0O0 damage to Irish shop
buildings, factories, creamerieS and
private dwelling houses would cost
S25 100000, unless the cost of labor
and materials was greatly reduced.
The number of buildings ,.amaged or
partially or wholly destroyed, the re-
port estimated, was upward of 600
Regarding labor conditions in the
class of distressed people covered in
the investigation. the report said:
I'VE may point out that even when
employed the workmen in Ireland re-
ceive a wage so low that it would he
difficult for an American to under
stand how the Irish workman can sup
port himself and his family upon such
a wage.
The present prevailing wage for
ordinary unskilled labor ranges from
50 to $14 a week: even these who are
workers at electri" power houses, for
example, receive only S14: mOtormen
receive $3.50: conductors, Sl1.50 :;
farm labOrers rarely more than SS.
To-day the $4,000 families to which
we refer have not even this scanty in
come"
On he subject of destruction of
property used in growing and market
ing farm products, the report said:
From the "rippling of the cooper
ative creamerieS in Ireland, $4,000
farmers who supplied these creamerieS
with milk for butter and cheeSemak-
ing are suffering severe loss and are
faced with even more deeply serious
distress in the immdiate future.
During the past year more than
fifty attacks by crown forces were
made on cooperative creamerieS, re-
ulting in their total or partial de-
StIuctiOn."