LETTERS
LETTERS To the Editor Larkin Was a Fighting-Man From PATRICK J. QUINLAN w rjJC >b aurora borealis in the dark north James Larkin flashed into 17th and 18th I century Dublin from England...
...To facilitate editorial chores, letters that on* side of the sheet will be favored...
...We don't want charity {rasa England or from America...
...we want te work and to buy what we weed...
...In the same city vjta its famous Georgian mansions were CO.OOO one-room tenements...
...Larkin went on his own again without consulting the people who could help him...
...After the failure Larkin went back to England to "carry the fiery cross...
...Conviction, prison sentence and pardon were usually the route to fame, publicity and constructive work if the person involved had sense and ability...
...He was a personality ami n character and he got away with murder...
...In an emotional way hs had many in line...
...When back in Dublin he expressed sympathy with the Republicans, but when asked to stand for parliament on a Republican ticket and abide by the rules Larkin declined, His republicanism was as light as the foam of speeches...
...It might have been won by Labor had a general strike in Britain taken place...
...He was never a revolutionist...
...It was found he was not a dues paying membsrof any group not even of tho Communist or the Connolly club...
...Larkin had to leave, for be had none...
...He also controlled a big daily paper...
...He had no credentials sad he represented no group...
...in time Larkin with others got arrested...
...Outside of the Mail, British labor was the mainstay ef the locked out men...
...On this account, it is planned to hold a large meeting on March 28, ! which will be the eighth anniversary •f the fall mt Madrid...
...Irish Workers Union, was a small affair...
...As the struggle inside of Spain approaches a crisis, its members feel that this support must be greatly increased...
...The I .eft Wing poison developed snd he became its chief dispensor with others who have passed on...
...He published five or mors numbers and u«ch succeeding P*f«r wss worse than the other...
...Adolph termer, National secretary of the Socialist Party, asked for his credentials...
...Germer demanded papers showing it...
...The population is under nourished People ia Berlin are living under indescribable conditions...
...Dublin became a rebel center ever after...
...A book could be written on that epic struggle...
...He opened his Daily Mail for aub¦eriptions for the strikers relief...
...It *SS en his own...
...Berlin, Germany, February 7. CONFERENCE TO SUPPORT SPANISH UNDE6ROUND | • Israel Feinberg, sn behalf or the j laternatiemal Solidarity Committee, m 'railing a public meeting for March V* te Ms-are wider aad more effective ! support fee igkters against Franca, j The ISC slready has s long record of support for ths Spanish Republicans...
...One big man in England, not a socialist, was for labor...
...Let is have year opinions...
...It wss s duel between the pair...
...Larkin kept on talking to "•wdn bat aimlessly and without purPose...
...we won't use the word...
...Dire Need in Germany Front L ©f T4 To the KdiVert I ATTENDED a reestat meeting of the Berlin Council, and after a long discussion of the various German parties, which are supervised by the military authorities ef the Four Powers, I hsd a long talk with Stadtmt FuUsaek, wk* is in charge ef the food distribution for Berlin...
...Somehat* or other the British brothers did net raise ths cry of dual unionism or get mad at Larkin...
...TO OUR READERS The Now Looeter welcomes letters of comment from its readers...
...This "mmtm raafereare" will be held in the Kaewevelt Auditoriam, 100 Bast 17th St...
...Larkin said he waa from the Irish Labor Party...
...It wa» not Larkin's way to be quiet even in a court loom...
...not able to withstand such cold, if we don't get help front foreign countries, Germans will die by hundreds every day," Mr- Fafltack declared...
...He headed almost every big thing like Chamber of Commerce snd Rotary...
...The first number was good...
...He was a sort of Irish-English J. P. Morgan...
...People in Berlin are breaking up their chairs and tables ts> snake a small fire for a fear hours...
...After six months he got himself invohsd in one local row after another...
...Stranger than all, he never went to Belfast.Ireland's biggest Industrial sector...
...Labor in Britain rallied to larkin and the midale classes also got busy...
...Larkin stayed away from it...
...It never •Slurred to him to get papers...
...Children are crying for shoes, and Mr...
...Dublin conditions were not lost on the Irish labor leaders and friends in Scotland tad England...
...He was a non-citizen but he insisted on fighting the war all over and of course had to be intemperate of speech...
...That man rather than listen to reason or debate the merits of a labor question in 1913 locked out the transport workers, ami other trades became involved...
...Larkin's oratorical gifts got channelled in the wrong direction and one diaservice led to another...
...He was telling everyone what to do and how things should be run from 'evolutions to rosewater parties in Greenwich Village...
...Many are willing .to pay a doctor MM Marks for an injection so that they ean die in peace...
...Murphy won the duel, but Labor had net wholly lost...
...He did write te a few Irish-Americana and they ad*!**d against his coming...
...During the split in Ireland he was put under charges and tried...
...Such wss t*S drawing power of his name that it *S»er mattered for a time...
...He was P«»»onal and vitriolic...
...Since space is drastically limited, please keep lettors short, proferamly ae more than three hundred words...
...Had he let his attorney defend him in the lower courts he would have won easily, for it developed that he opposed the Left Wing Manifesto...
...his name was William Martin Murphy...
...He next came to this country...
...R°s organized but at the same time he ipfit, a characteristic that followed him to the end of his days...
...But his union, the...
...Ms started a paper in Chicago...
...Germany is able to work her passage towards an international nadexstanding, but at preaent we are even unable te dc anything towards oat awn reconstruction...
...They let him slide, sink or swim...
...Kashness and intemperance seemed to lie the order of the day and Larkin was in the midst of it...
...Fraternal as well as selfish reasons prompted the Dockers Uniea »f Great Britain and Ireland with headquarters in London and important branch ©Bees ja the ether big seaside cities to act ia ])1<l TV} sent J Ira Larkin, a Manchester bora Irishman, to Dublin to organise the declares, the trolley men and others engaged is) the transport business...
...The Irish got sick of him* and dropped him altogether...
...The humsn body it...
...Larkin made the Dublin greup a purely Irish union...
...He owned Dublin's transport utilities, light and gas...
...The people felt they were somebody not a slave ridden nobody...
...H* did later on before Supreme Court and jury...
...0 .AlL the time he was here there waa fighting in Ireland...
...Work hours were long and wages were low...
...He withdrew from the strong British union which sent him originally to Dublin...
...That was an ex-Dublin nasi named Hsrmsworth or I.ord Northcliste...
...All tabor and liberal I irgaaiaatiaas are asked to send deviates...
...He got elected in a safe labor district to the city council...
...I.arkin's tactless—SB at the Special Trade Union Congress antagonised the men who could have promoted n general sympathetic strike...
...Germany needs very urgently warm clothes...
...Jeris Iven's Aim, "Spanish Earth," will he shown oa March M at Caravan Hall, 110 East »»th Street, to raise money to send food and clashing to antifascists in Europe, by the American Committee for European Relief, 197 Second Ave., New York City...
...He was well received and put forward as a speaker at masa westings...
...FuBssjek asked sat te appeal ts every relief organizetiua ia England and in the USA to send warm clothes and shoes...
...He was a big factor in English utilities...
...In a few months he had split the Irish Labor Movement., He had,but a handful of real followers in the end...
...New York City...
...There Was a rift with local lenders in Dublin and Connolly did not like the way Lark hi handled things or threw away Kmat chances...
...Bourke Cockran, who defended Tom Mooney, examined the rase, said that man will convict himself...
...To my question, hew to improve the economic situation in Germany, the Berlin Minister for Food Production replied: "So long as we are unable to establish a valid German currency, the whole German aation may be condemned to death...
...Frustration followed frustration, row followed row...
...Hia son got elected to the parliament or Dajl...
...Here it most be admitted that he was not deported immediately after his release from state prison as is usually done...
...He war allowed to stay a long while here and for all we know could have stayed on had he behaved...
...Fwltoack declared that Germany—especially Berlin—is facing another crisis, as grain and potatoes will be lacking by the end of Februsry...
...He later on wired to Dublin and received in return credentials from the Union, not from the Socialists...
...He gave up the •M»,for his supporters everywhere faded tmt "s want around the country -peaking *»sn hs got dstes as a freelance, lis «ra*d up In Chicago again and tried te "•mrlsis In some meeting...
...New York City...
...He became the fall guy for every fry cop ami government agent through the judicious use of flattery...
...We need very urgently more food, and I want to stress the fact that without the abolition ef the zone system, Berlin will be unsble to prevent snother grest catastrophe," declared Mr Fullsaek...
...Rut h« had plenty of admirers snd Ijero-worshippers so he never lacked a following...
...He whs the opposite...
...LETTERS To the Editor Larkin Was a Fighting-Man From PATRICK J. QUINLAN w rjJC >b aurora borealis in the dark north James Larkin flashed into 17th and 18th I century Dublin from England revealing social conditions which were the worst in MmJ the British Empire, with slums, disease, worse than any city west of the Sues, | There was the splendor of the propertied classes headed by the Lord Lieutenant and gmg'a Viceroy in The Castle" surrounded by almost feudal pomp...
...Murphy had the top rulers snd big interests with him...
...On the other side of the economic fence was a man as stubborn as Jim Larkin...
...Larkin caste te Dublin and got things going...
...He came te Mew York and called on Lai mm , Socialist and Irish groups...
...As an exconvict he was deported...
...Larkin in time berame a part of every internal row in New York...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 12
