The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
Revolt Spreading Among
Irish Workers, Farmers
Communist Party of Ireland Calls for Support
= of Revolutionary Organ

NEW YORK, July 18.-In q letter
richly rejecting the struggles of the
Irish workers and farmers, the newly
formed Communist Party of LELAND
youngest section of the Communist
International, makes an appeal to the
workers of America for support of its
struggles and OF its organ, The Irish
Workers Voice"
The Daily Worker" urges all AM
erican workers, and especially all
Irish workers in Amexica, to respond
TO this call; to organize groups of
synpathizers with the Irish move
ment; to organize proteAts against
the terror directed against the Irish
working class; and to raise funds to
build a powerful organ of the reyolu-
tionary workers and farmers of Ire
land
All communications and contribu-
tons should be addressed to the Com
nlunist Party of Ireland, s. Great
Strand St, Dublin, ireland.
Following is the text of the letter:
To the Workers of America:
The Irish Communist Party wants
the help Of all IriShmen and women
abroad who sympathize with the Irish
fight for freedom.
1t urgently needs this help The
friends of English imperialism in Ire
land are busy night, noon and morn
ing trying to keep down the rising in
dependent workers movement
They are wearing many masks in
an effort to delude and betray the
people. They are trying to SOW fresh
divisions on religious issues among
the workers.
They are scared 10 frenzy at the
idea that the Irish working class and
their farmer allies should come to
the leadership of the fight for ma
tional independence and united
Irish nation. The Irish Communist
Party is putting Connolly's interpre-
tation on Irish freedom-a free ma
tion but not for the capitalists and
landlords; an Irish Republic with
power in the hands of the Irish work
ing class.
Against the splendid rising move
ment among the Irish workers on
both sides of the Boyne, the Irish
ruling class answers with pogroms
boycotts and every form of intin1ida-
ton and victimization.
Connolly House, our Party head
quarters in Dublin, is wrecked by
gangs of imperialist hirelingS. Pearse-
Connolly Hall in Leitrim is burned
10 the ground. Every effort is being
made to wreck trade union organiza-
ton among the miners in Kilkenny
and among the unemployed workers
everywhere.
Sharper Attacks On Workers
The Irish Workers Voice" is
faced with printers boycott, organ
lied through clerical circles.
These circles are conducting an I'M
paralleled campaign of anti-revolu-
tionary propaganda, starting with the
United Irishmen of 1898 and ending
with the Communists of today.
The reason for all this is the growth
of the popular revolt against all yes
tiges of English ilnperialist rule over
Ireland and in opposition to the dire
poverty into which the capitalists are
driving ever larger masses of the
working people.
Out Of over 100000 unemployed in
the Free State area alone not more
than 10000 get any unemployment
Insurance, while in the City of Cork
a worker with a wife ard one child
gets outdoor relief at the rate of 8
Shillines per week.
These conditions explain the wave
of heroic strike battles among the
railwaymen and clothing workers, and
now the seamen and lockers.
The leadership Of the rising move
n1ent is the burning issue. The or
ganization Of the revolutionary forces
requires TO be strengthened without
delay if the masses struggles are to
be brought to victory over both for
eign and domestic enemies.
The Irish movement needs strong
press, a strong party. Friends in