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...This conference, representing the labor movement of New South Wales, is in full sympathy with the Irish people in their fight for self-determination. It deprecates any move to frustrate their wishes and will oppose any attempt at armed intervention in Ireland...
Southern Ireland flies the green, white & orange flag of the Free State; Northern Ireland ("Ulster") hoists the Union Jack. Free Staters send nobody to the London House of Commons; Ulstermen elect 13 M. P.'s. Each Ireland has its royally appointed Governor General?in the Free State Mr. James McNeill, in Ulster the Duke of Abercorn...
...Cork last week the Free State's No. 1 industry stood still. Henry Ford's workmen were striking. Depression had shut Northern Ireland's leading shipyards?but Irishmen were not downhearted. Whatever happens the Irish are still on a primarily agricultural basis, can feed and clothe themselves...
Soberly, significantly the President said: "We are united to England by our geographical position and active economic relations. If we were entirely free: if Ireland were an independent democracy, entirely mistress of her destiny within her natural frontiers, I, for my part, would favor a very friendly political understanding with Great Britain. But as long as there exists against us a menacing fortress on our own soil, and we must live, so to speak, in a state of suspicion, true friendship can never be born between the two nations...
...menacing fortress." Snapped the President: "British garrisons remain in many of our ports. ... But we are not without means of action. . . . We have great strength in the United States. . . . Do not forget that in the Peace Treaty President Wilson imposed as a condition on Lloyd George a settlement with Ireland. ... If the English are our best clients, we also are their best customers. Certain English ports' companies would be ruined if our cattle did not arrive. We are not so feeble as they think. They can not starve...