The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-07
IISH WORKERS !
HAVE NO JOBS
And NO HOMES
Strikes Increase Under
So-called Gree State"

Especial TO The Daiy WoTkefJ
QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, Nov. S.
rho unemployment crisis, coupled
with the severe housing problem
which are now raging in the British
Isles, are particularly acute in Ireland
under the capitalist Free State gov
eminent.
Strikes are increasing thruout the
country, and the government while it
issues resolutions urging "co-opera-
tion," has followed the lead of the
Baldwin government and definitely
made it known that If necessary, it
will act as a strikebreaking agency.
New Dali viii Show Up Lies.
In short time from now the Dali
win be sitting, and the workers, espe-
cialEy in southern Ireland, will find
that the rosy promises of prosperity"
made when the present government,
the servant of British capitalism, was
formed, have materialized into uni
versal unemployment, abject poverty
and downright starvation.
It is now admitted that never since
1S47 have the workers and peasants
of Ireland undergone such distress,
not only in Cork, but in the country
towns, notably those that during the
British regime we're made into mill
tary encampments, and which are
now practically derelict.
When the Free State was formed,
it was promised that Industries would
start, that there would be employ
ment and living wage" for all, and
that taxes would be slashed.
Just the reverse is now the case.
The Dali has not even seen fit to
supply the unemployment dole to the
thousands of jobless and needy work
ers. The British government has
added to the misery by cutting the
small old age pension by a shilling
a week.
Added to this, the cost Of living has
increased. In Cork, where the en-
ployers are circulating talk of another
general reduction in wages, the prices
have increased in some eases fifty
per cent. For example, potatoes are
now sold for Is I'd per weight, altho
they are purchased by the spectators
for less than Sd per weight. Milk is
2s per gallon, altho the small farmers
are forced to sell it for Is Sd at the
most
A British ex-soldier, now residing
in Cork declares, tuberculosis stiIl
scourges Dear Old Cork Treatment
is most essential in some cases. Never
theless concessions by the government
are withheld from many Immediate
(, treatment is the only prospect of re-
covery. l am awaiting institutional
treatment, and hoping that those who
are responsible will procure my adj
mittance."
Family Lives in Stable.
There are numerous evidences of
the acute housing problem. The last
session of the Cork county council
was forced to consider the case of
Mrs. X. Neligan Morrissy, a widow
supporting eleven children and living
in stable. P. H. Barry of the board
Of health said it might be cheaper to
rent house for her than to. send her
and her children to the workhouse.
This woman continues to reside in
her stable at Doneraile, and has de-
clared that she will die on the road
side rather than receive charity from I,
the Free State.
Conditions in Ireland are but a
sharp reflection of conditions prevail
ing in England, which have been given
wider publicity. Just as Premier Bald
win mutters about discussing the
housing problem with the house Of
lords" while thousands of unemployed
face eviction in overerowded slums,
so does the Dali do nothing but pass
resolutions of sympathy" Just as the
British home secretary, Joynson-
Hicks, declare that his government
will protect the community" by
doing the work of strikers, so does
the Free State government intimidate
the Flax Spinning and Weaving COM
pany employees at Cork who are
threatened with starvation because
they resisted wage cuts.