The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-09

their last meetings. demanded immediate wage
cuts if there were to be any dividends at all.
The chairman OF the Dublin Tramway Co. re-
porting record year. at their meeting on March
l, pointed out that British tramway workers had
lust received cut and he licked his lips in an
ticipation
In addition to continuing the capitalist often
sive the Fianna Fail has another role. Launched
as the parliamentary wing OF the republican
struggle, to 1t falls the task of killing that
struggle for ever. Its policy is not one of fight
ing Imperialism, bus of making peace with
Britain on the basis Of a new agreement. Ana
the Irish Republican Army Q.RA) ana the
other republican organizations, which dragged
at the tail of Fiarna Fail in the election as the
result of its promise to release the prisoners and
abolish the Coercion Act and the Oath OF Ale
legiance to King George v, have now fallen
completely into its arms. For ten years the
leaders Of the republican movement, with all
the capacity of the petty bourgeoisie for re-
garding forms and ignoring realities, howled
against the Oath. The prisoners are free now,
and the Oath will probably be abolished soon.
and they are left high and dry-imperialist trt-
butte will remain, the partition OF Ireland will
still exist but for them the struggle will be over
The republican leaders express this clearly
themselves IAN Phoblacht" (The Republic) has
re-appeared after its suppression under the
Coercion Act. Maurice Twomen, the I. r. A.
chief, writes about the new situation:
Members Of Fianna Fail express friendli-
ness with the ideals Of the IRA, and under
their administration the movement could be-
come, what it ought to be, a normal feature
of our national struggle, popularizng our ma :
tional ideal and encouraging the people for-,
ward to the re-declaration of a united Re-
v,,,hlic ("A, Plnh1acht0 }o-2-31O
Madame Come Mcbride, secretary of the
Prisoners Defense League, in the same journal
even more revealingly states the abdication OF
the petty -bourgeoisie:
when Eamonn deValera takes over power
and, releases all the republican prisoners the
shame of imprisoning the men who fought Tor /.
her freedom will be lifted from ireland. The
work of the Women's Prisoners Defense
League will be concluded and the mothers
can take a rest. The opening Of the jail gates
will have accomplished what machine guns
and proclamations failed to do. :"
The battle over for them, the Defense League
is to be wound up; the next prisoners will be
workers fighting not for phrases but for bread
and freedom, but that will be no concern of the
petty bourgeosie AS the Irish Press" the
chief government organ says lQ2-3-32):
"~ a.. Irishmen of any section will no longer
have to feel that the independence Of their
country can be established only through armed
conflict in which their own fellow Irshmen
will be opposed to them. The way is being
opened to secure by peaceful means the re-
alization of our national ideals, and hence
forth the responsibility to avail themselves OF
those means rests upon all sections equally.
There is no longer cause for anyone to be-
| lieve that when the national rights are to
| be asserted that must be done by protesting
| minority. In future that assertion of national
rights will be, as 1t should always have been,
| the exclusive right of the government chosen
| by the majority Of the electorate"
| But while the petty -bourgeoisie leaders of the
| republican movement may be satisfied with this,
the rank and file of the republican movement
| the peasant lads and the proletarian youth who
| have formed the backbone of the struggle against
| British imperialism-will not be content to
starve under deVaera government any more
! than they were under ~Cosgrave. The task now
OF the revolutionary forces is to win these genu-
| Inc fighters against Imperialism away from the
| petty bourgeois elements who are trying to
siaackle them to the chariot Of capitalist gov
| eminent and To lead them along the path Of
| class struggle and the final fight to end CAPT.
| talist and landlord domination