Arizona republican., 1921-06-22
 IRISH QUESTION. CAUSES BITTER
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Substitute By Resolutions Committee Precipitates Heated Debate-Gomp- CTS -Adjourns Session When Battle At Its Height
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 DENVER. Colo. June 21-The fore casted bitter fight over the Irish question was precipitated upon the floor of the American Federation of Labor late today and was at its height when President Samuel Com pers adjourned the convection until tomorrow.
 The debate started when the res olutions committee reported a sub stitute for the four resolutions intro duced by Irish sympathizers. The substitute Ignored the effort to inf- tiate boycott against British man. ufacturers and imports.
 The committees report disposed of the Irish question by asking the con- vention to reaffirm its sympathy for the Irish cause by urging recognition of the Irish republic and by urging trial and punishment for British army men guilty of atrocities In Ireland
 Ask Boycott or Nothing
 No sooner had the committees re7 port been read when Cornelius Foley. delegate from the Barbers' union. took the floor. reading telegram from Harry Roland. secretary to Eamonn de Valera. provisional president of the Irish republic" which said:
 The organization American Fed eration of Iabor) is looked on to do something for Ireland We want the hoycot or nothing"
 Mir. Foley declared that there Is < only one place where we can hurt England and that Is in her pocket book
 Christian NJ. Madsen of the Chicago L-..sn.. 4.~~. .F T nl rmA rn amend the committees report bs. sdd ing a clause calling for boycott by American labor against British goods and British companies as long as tho British government maintains 'its barbarous and destructive policy ir Ireland"
 A point of order was raised thai this could not be introduced becaus' it was part of resolutions already re- jected by the committee. President Gompers sustained the point of ordsl and adjourned the convention whil' several delegates were struggling fol recognition of the chair.
 The resolution reported by the com mittee was virtually identical witi one submitted by a committee of th' Irish sympathixers headed by Pete | Brady of New York. except that som of the moro drastic phrases wer omitted. The committee also strucl out a paragraph demanding tha President Harding. his cabiret an
 congress take necessary steps to de mand from Great Britain the default ed interest and loan due the Unite'
 States and now used in part to pro
 mote the brutal campaign in Ire
 land-r
 Seek Reeoonition for Ireland
 The resolution reaffirmed the ac
 tion of the Montreal convention
 supporting the Irish people in thei
 struggle for freedom and Tor Tree
 dom and for recognition of the Iris
 republic: instructed federation exec
 utive officers and asked all nation'
 and international unions to urge th
 administration officials at Washing
 ton and all members of congress i'm
 mediateiy to pass legislation recoe
 nizing the Irish republic: provide
 for the sending of special con munication to the British premie his cabinet and members of paris , ment protesting against the can paign of violence in Ireland; instruc
 sf federation officers to Ss<>- up VII
 trade unions of Great Britain. h'
 colonies and dominions a proposal
 inaugurate a campaign for the tri
 and punishment of members or q n British regular and auxiliary fore - guilty of atrocities In Ireland in c manner similar to that In which U German officers are now being tri' - and punished for violation of the rul . of warfare in France and Belgium
 The boycott resolution. which VI r eliminated by the committees IT 'f port. was introduced by Irish syn lt pathizers as the official resoluti' 't Of the Irish republic" IL was al v responsible for the split among q d delegates as many of them oppos' l. any such action claiming rhat DO
 colt would work against the inte e. ests of the organized workers l. Great Britain and her colonies al j. dominions.'
 of sam Evans. personal representati of of Frank P. Walsh. Is here directi rs the fight to have the boycott asopts D. The government was charged WI to fostering and perpetuatinS | s non union shop in a resolution adol d ed by the convention commencing | n seamen's union for refusing to su ,- init to the alleged "open shop" poll st of the United States shipping boar os "The shipping board will perl ,d union men to work and i've, the ~
 laration said. "oniy upon conditi that they be sufficiently submissl V to the non-union men and str breakers to be tolerated by them
 Sitting behind a smoke screen ", hostility to union labor. the reso ne ton said that the shipping boi
 was .torpedoing the merchant mar ln and sea power of the United state n Willing to Arbitrste iot Andrew Furuseth. president or a. seamen'S union. in addressing an convention protested the action or ne. shipping board in establishing on open shop as part of a conspir' lid to destroy the American mcrcan
 marine
 he The question of wage is sscondl wn in this controversy said Mir. Flu nat seth. but that of conditions Is [ om mary. They are primary because zen