The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02
IRISH FAMILY
OF FIVE LIVE
OUT IN DITCH
Evicted from Lodging
When Funds Went

DUBLIN, Aug. 31.--In Dublin at
present there is family OF Ave, hus-
band, wife and three children, living
In ditch at the Pin Mil, Cross Guns
Bridge. The husband, as a member
of the Workers Union Of Ireland, was
out during the coal lockout.
Like the rest OF the coal workers
when the fight collapsed, he had to
make the best Of bad Job and was
forced to join che l. T G. G. w. q. to
get any work at all. He managed to
get some work every week for a time,
but when the miners strike came he
was again thrown out and has been
out OF work since.
They were elected from their lodg-
ings and what furniture they had has
been pawned to get bread. Outdoor
relief has been refused as they had
not an address, a home. The woman
went into the union, but the condi
tions were so bad she could not stick
to it. This is only one of many cases
in Dublin, and the same applies all
over the country.
Just recently our organizers found
a case in Delvin, West Meath, of
family of FIVE sleeping in the ditch
quite near to Delvin and Clonyn Cas-
tie, which has dozens of rooms, not
one of which is occupied. All over
Dublin and the country there are
plenty of mansions and villas that are
either empty or only partly occupied.
These must be commandeered and
the homeless and overcrowded work
ers put into them.
Wealth In Abundance at Horse Show.
Contrast these hellish conditions I'M
der which the workers are living with
the lavish expenditure and riotous liv-
ing of the bosses and the sweaters
from all parts of the world during
horse show week in Dublin. Tim
Healy and Willie Cosgrave have been
entertaining on scale that would pro-
vide food for every unemployed family
in Dublin for week
But it is all for the foreign sweaters
and the lords, dukes and sirs with
their fine ladies and retinues of ser
wants. The papers are full of pictures
Of Maharajahs and other blood suck
ers all doing themselves well at the
expense Of the workers.
Every night there have been special
receptions and dances for these gem
try to sport their figures, while the
starving workers hang around the
doors of the swell restaurants and
dance halls feasting on the smell of
the rich dishes being prepared for the
parasites.
Everywhere the children Of these
moneybags are trotting around with
their prize-winning ponies while the
children of the poor are hunting for
crusts in the gutter The blatant dis
play of high living that has gone on
all week is enough to cause the $4,000
unemployed men and women and
young persons to do desperate deeds
Of violence.
Not one in 30 Of these is receiving
the dole or any kind Of relief. and
their forbearance in the circumstances
is really remarkable. In fact, it is
cowardly. They must learn not to be
so docile and ready to starve while
there is plenty of food in the country.
They have been well betrayed, no
work, no relief Of any kind, but plenty
of feasting and riotous living for the
bosses and their families.
The workers must rouse themselves
from their apathy and while prepar-
ing to take all steps to overthrow
such a system of class privilege, at the
same time organize to demand their
immediate needs of work or mainten-
ance at full trade union rates.-Ham-
mer and Plough.