Evening star., 1922-09-02
LABOR BACKS FREE STATE.
Cooperation Assured by Call of
Dali to Meet September 8.
BY WILLIAM II. BRAYDEN.
BY WILLIAM II.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright 1922.
DUBLIN, September 2.-The an
nouncement that the Irish parlia-
ment elected on June 16 Will. after
many postponements. surely meet
September has mollified the opposi-
ton of the labor party, which has all
along been insisting on the necessity
of the government submitting its
actions to parliament. Labor was
threatening various coerciye meas
ures. including the designations Of all
its members from parliament. but has
admitted that the deaths of Arthur
Griffith and Michael Collins justified
poetponement.
While labor may criticize particular
portions of the government poIiey,
il is almost entirely in sympathy with
the governments main purpose OF
giving validity to the treaty by def
initely establishing the Free state.
and on that issue the government
has an overwhelming majority. There
are MANY signs of a desire to end
the present armed conflict by peace
! Iconference, and some Irish municipal
and county representative bodles nave
passed resolutions in favor OF such
a conference ana nave noHiihaleu oei-
egates to it.
Duhltn Mayor Pc0cemaker.
In this peace movement the leading
man is the lord mayor of Dublin. Aid
O'Neill. whose talent in accommodate
ing apparently hopeless differences in
Irish affairs has often been employed
to advantage. The peace move Is
partly due to a feeling among Eamonn
De. Valera's followers that the game
is up. but is mainly due to the de-
preston and discouraSement caused
by the campaign of destruction, IN
ducing people to prefer peace at al
most any price 10 cohsihuahSe VI
the conflict
one day longer than necessary TO Sc
cure an admission of the right OF the
Irish people to rule and OF the su,
premacy of civil power over ali armed
force. 1t is realized that any COM
nromise short of that result would
make the government OF the new
! state impossible and mean merely
, the renewal of the war any time the
gunmen were dissatisfied win par
liamentary decisions.
Valera Fight to Continue.
There is no sign that De Valera will
abandon his claim to resist the treaty
by armed force, despite the decision
at the polling booths. 1t is regarded
as probable that he will not recog-
nize the jurisdiction of the Irish par
lament, and that he and many Of his
followers, if not all. are unlikely to
attend its meetings, even though they
have through friends on the news
| naners urged that it be summoned.
The prospects of any peace confer
ence therefore, are not hopeful
The funda mental fact of the sitaa-
| t;on Is that the government really
renresents the people and has greater
sunport among the masses than II has
! in parliament 1t has not plunged
into the conflict without reason for
its belief that it is executing the
neople's will, and that it did not need
q preliminary meeting OF parliament
IN assure it that it has among the
| members elected in June majority
The irregulars' campaign of OUT
"a yes and ambushes continues. but it
;s obviously less formidable every
day 1t has not intimidated the gov-
eminent, which sees in yielding to
Violence only the suicide of all OF
Ireland's hopes.