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	Irish Citizen Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish Citizen Army, or ICA, was a small band of trained volunteers established in Dublin for the defense of worker’s rights.
		This defeat and the harsh treatment given to the strikers by the Dublin Metropolitan Police, convinced James Connolly and others that it was necessary to organize the workers to defend themselves.
		This was flown by the Irish Citizens Army during the 1916 rising.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Citizens_Army (456 words)

	1913 in Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		October 27 - James Larkin of the ITGWU is sentenced to seven months in prison for seditious language.
		November 19 - The Irish Citizen Army is launched at a meeting of the Dublin Civic League in Dublin.
		The army is founded by James Connolly to protect workers in the general lockout.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1913_in_Ireland (462 words)

	Report of the Socialist Party of Ireland
		By 1903, the Irish Socialist Republican Party, as it was called, had been almost completely extinguished in Dublin and Cork, the two centres in which it was established, [due] to an unrelenting personal persecution of its members by the Nationalist and Catholic reactionaries.
		The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union which now musters 130,000 members in the total of 250,000 organised in the Irish Labour Party and Trade Union Congress, affords the Socialist Party facilities for the circulation of this literature and for the conduct of oral propaganda.
		Workers' Councils are formed in all small towns and during the general strikes of 1918-1919 and 1920 these councils have taken full control of food supplies and kindred matters, in some cases ordering the British police (an armed force) to be confined to barracks.
	www.workersrepublic.org /Pages/Ireland/Communism/spireport1.html (2193 words)

	Irish Labour Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Irish Labour Party is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland.
		The split damaged the Labour movement in the 1944 general election.
		Former senior DL TD Pat Rabbitte became the new leader, the first to be elected directly by the members of the party.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/i/ir/irish_labour_party.html (839 words)

	Irish trade union history : Rosie Hackett and the Union Women of Jacobs Biscuits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		She was in the crowd that was baton charged by the police, resulting in the terrible injuries to the workers that made the day infamous as 'Bloody Sunday'.
		On the following Saturday, three Jacob's workers were sacked for refusing to remove their ITGWU badges and Rosie was one of the organisers of the supporting strike which began immediately afterwards.
		It is time yet again for the trade union movement to remember its roots in the brave efforts of workers like Rosie Hackett and to defy the sell-outs of those union leaders who are prepared to make endless concessions to the bosses in the fruitless quest for partnership with the old enemy.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/siptu/f5_history.html (723 words)

	JCS Archive: A Lesson From Dublin
		Now, the members of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union who have returned to work in Dublin have done so after signing an agreement to handle all classes of goods, that is to say, to renounce for the time the idea and practice of the sympathetic strike.
		To work for the abolition or merging of all these unions that now divide our energies instead of concentrating them - and for the abolition of all those executives whose measure of success is the balance sheet of their union, instead of the power of their class.
		The organisation of all workers in any one industry into a union covering that entire industry, and the linking up of all such unions under one head is a different thing from the mere amalgamation of certain unions.
	www.wageslave.org /jcs/archive/140202.html (849 words)

	A split in the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU)? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While accepting that the ultimate decision by any group of workers as to which union they want to join is theirs and only theirs to make, there are some arguments against the formation of breakaway unions.
		The first of these is that the principal effect of such a breakaway could well be to take the minority of combative/radical activists out of the old union, thus leaving the rest of the members totally at the mercy of the bureaucrats whose anti-democratic behaviour had initially provoked the split.
		Both the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) and the Federated Workers Union of Ireland (FWUI) - which merged to form SIPTU were born as 'left breakaways' - as was the aforementioned NBRU.
	struggle.ws /ws/2002/ws69/union.html (889 words)

	Ireland's OWN History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When it was suggested to Larkin that an Irish general union would be a more effective means of organising workers, he rejected the idea, saying that the working class should not be split along national lines.
		However in late 1908 the growing friction between Larkin and the NUDL general secretary, James Sexton, came to the boil, and he was suspended from his job.
		The ITGWU was notably opposed to the British unions, and historians have caricatured William O'Brien as a narrow minded nationalist for his pursuit of an entirely Irish based movement.
	irelandsown.net /larkin.html (1546 words)

	SHOWDOWN 1913 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This blurred the fact that the only other main union in the city was run on the behest of Murphy, and he bankrolled it, as he saw his creation as a deterrent to the ITGWU, and a tool with which industrial peace would be guaranteed in his many companies.
		None the less, it gave a lot of striking workers a great pride to be seen by friends and relatives marching to drills in Croydon Park, and it gave them an outlet to take their minds away from the depressing drama that was Dublin 1913.
		Many of the union leaders in mainland Britain were alarmed by Larkin’s actions, and by his threats to call out the workers of mainland Britain in sympathy with their Dublin comrades.
	www.geocities.com /young_socialist_106/showdown_1913.htm (3660 words)

	Irish Labour history - Part 1: The rise of the General Unions, Militant, April 1976
		Irish trade unions, the basis on which such a Party would be built, have a long history going back to the 18th century.
		James McCarron, the delegate from the Derry branch of the Tailors' Union proposed: 'That it is the opinion of this Congress that the ultimate solution of the Labour problem is to be found in the nationalisation of land, also the means of production, distribution and exchange.' Richard Worthey from Belfast seconded.
		Members who were workers tended to see their socialism and their trade unionism as being separate.
	www.geocities.com /socialistparty/LabHist/1912.htm (1054 words)

	Larkin, James on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, which he organized and of which he was secretary, had as its goal the combining of all Irish industrial workers, skilled and unskilled, into one organization.
		After his activity in the general strike of 1913 he was tried by the British for sedition and jailed briefly.
		There he organized (1924) the Workers' Union of Ireland and served in the Dáil Éireann (1937-38, 1943-44), on the Dublin Trades Council, and on the Dublin Corporation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Larkin-J1.asp (292 words)

	INA/Irish History 1916 Rising
		The strike ended in failure, but a workers' militia known as the Irish Citizen Army was formed under James Connolly's command which was to play an historic role in the struggle for Irish freedom.
		The Gaelic League's championing the Irish language and the literary revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries cannot be underestimated as catalysts of revolutionary struggle.
		In 1912, an Irish Home Rule bill was put forward but was predictably reacted to with outrage by pro-British Loyalists in the north and political pragmatics in the British parliament who saw the issue as little more than a way to gain and secure political power.
	www.inac.org /irishhistory/1916.php (1597 words)

	JCS Archive: Glorious Dublin!
		I heard of one case where a labourer was asked to sign the agreement forswearing the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, and he told his employer, a small capitalist builder, that he refused to sign.
		It is a pleasure to me to recall that I was a member of their Union before I went to America, and that they twice ran me as their candidate for Dublin City Council before the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union was dreamed of.
		Coachbuilders, sawyers, engineers, bricklayers, each trade that is served by general labourers, walks out along with the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union boys; refuses to even promise to work with any one who signs the employers' agreement, and, cheering, lines up along with their class.
	www.wageslave.org /jcs/archive/131004.html (1056 words)

	Famous Irish Lives - James Connolly
		His Irish Catholic parents were poor, and Connolly worked from the age of eleven; in 1882, he falsified his age to join the army.
		He founded and became secretary of the Irish Socialist Republican Party, and in 1898 launched the weekly Workers' Republic, exploiting the 1798 centenary to argue that only in a socialist republic could the ideals of Wolfe Tone be realised.
		Larkin left for America in 1914, and Connolly became acting secretary of the ITGWU, commandant of the recently formed Irish Citizen Army, and editor of the Irish Worker, which was soon suppressed for its anti-war sentiments.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/people/whoswho/connolly.shtm (343 words)

	History 1916 - 1923
		Dealing with Connolly's activities as soldier, agitator, propagandist, orator, socialist organiser, pamphleteer, trade union leader and insurgent, and tracing the evolution of his political thinking, this definitive biography is largely based on his writings in twenty-seven journals and 200 letters.
		Returning to Ireland in 1910 as organiser of the Socialist Party of Ireland, Connolly was appointed Ulster Organiser of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union by James Larkin, succeeding him as acting general secretary in October 1914.
		As Commander of the Irish Citizen Army, Connolly joined with leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the Easter Rising in 1916, becoming Commandant-General of the Dublin Division of the Army of the Republic and Vice-President of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic.
	www.sinnfeinbookshop.com /en-us/dept_6.html (2960 words)

	James Larkin
		After railway workers in Liverpool, Birmingham, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds refused to handle traffic from Ireland, Larkin was denounced as the man responsible for introducing revolutionary syndicalism into Britain.
		The workers must work to live; therefore it is to the interest of both parties that a mutual arrangement should be brought about.
		Speaking generally of the country, I assure you that the workers of Ireland are on the side of the dear, dark-haired mother, whose call they never failed to answer yet.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /IRElarkin.htm (4306 words)

	James Connolly: Statement of the Workers' Case(1913)
		We believe that they stand to one another in the relations of cause and effect, the long period of stagnation in the labour ranks of Dublin was responsible for the growth in your midst of labour and housing conditions scarcely to be equalled outside Bombay or Constantinople.
		It is as if, instead of waiting until the contingency arose, the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union were to call a refusal to pledge themselves not to help the latter body if they so desired it at any time in the future.
		It is as if, instead of waiting until the contingency arose, the Transport Union were to call a strike in a shop because the employer would not sign an agreement not to lend his own money to another employer if he needed it.
	www.marxists.org /archive/connolly/1913/10/workcase.htm (697 words)

	Peadar O'Donnell and the Spanish Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in Donegal, he left teaching (and a prominent role in the Donegal branch of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation) to become a full-time organiser with the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union in 1918.
		It is particularly interesting for Irish anarchists, given its sympathetic treatment of the anarcho-syndicalist contribution by a long-time 'fellow traveller' of the orthodox Irish communist movement, which has always set out to denigrate that contribution.
		The talk in the cafes of Barcelona, where he spent much time, was of the shortage of arms, and he joined in the criticism of the government for failing to arm the people and permitting the war "to assume the character of a clash of armies only".
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/rbr/rbr5/peader.html (2526 words)

	Leading Irish Officials suspended by Transport and General Workers' Union - An attack against trade union democracy
		Late on the afternoon of Tuesday 26 June, the Irish Regional secretary and regional organiser of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union were suspended from office by Bill Morris, general secretary of the TGWU.
		At the meeting of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, due to take place next week, our Region was to present a resolution opposing the social contract, with good prospects of obtaining a majority.
		The purpose of trade unions is to defend the workers, not to defend profit margins.
	www.irsm.org /statements/irsp/archive/010628.html (738 words)

	James Connolly: Glorious Dublin! (1913)
		Baton charges, prison cells, untimely death and acute starvation – all were faced without a murmur, and in face of them all, the brave Dublin workers never lost faith in their ultimate triumph, never doubted but that their organisation would emerge victorious from the struggle.
		This was a rival union to the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union.
		What is true of that union is also true of most of the tradesmen.
	www.marxists.org /archive/connolly/1913/10/glordubn.htm (1065 words)

	A TITANIC STRUGGLE
		At all events the call was in danger of falling upon deaf ears, and was, in fact, but little headed until the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union began to take a hand in the game.
		But the delegates of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union up and down the docks preached most energetically the doctrine of the sympathetic strike, and the doctrine was readily assimilated by the dockers and carters.
		Havelock Wilson, General Secretary, National Seamen's and Firemen's Union, has mentioned the strike on the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company as an instance of our erratic methods, it may be worth while to note that as a result of that strike some of his sailors got an increase of 5s.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~rcgfrfi/ww/connolly/1913-ats.htm (1133 words)

	RAY COLLINS
		In praise of the show Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan said “this is a masterful display of the enduring spirit and humour of the people of Belfast.” The show was directed by Nye Heron.
		Ray played the part of Irish revolutionary leader James Connolly in the Irish Arts Center's 1986 production of Connolly's play Under Which Flag, which was originally staged by the Workers' Dramatic Company in Liberty Hall, Dublin, just eight days before the Easter Rising in 1916.
		Ray felt especially honoured to be asked by Sheridan to play Connolly as he himself is a former member of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union of which Connolly was the Belfast Organizer.
	www.raycollinsmusic.com /shows.html (539 words)

	GOTI - Flags of Ireland:The Starry Plough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1913 police attacked striking workers who were demonstrating in Dublin, killing two.
		Trade union leaders decided to establish a para-military organisation - the 'Irish Citizen Army' - to protect the workers.
		In 1934 a simplified version of the Starry Plough was designed for use by the country's largest trade union, the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, and this came to be generally accepted as the flag of the Irish trade union and labour movement as a whole.
	www.irishclans.com /flags/plough.html (220 words)

	Part 33 of The Workers' Republic
		The locked-out worker who attempted to speak to a scab in order to persuade him or her not to betray the class they belonged to, was mercilessly set upon by uniformed bullies, and hauled off to prison, until the prison was full to overflowing with helpless members of our class.
		Women and young girls by the score; good, virtuous, beautiful Irish girls and women were clubbed and insulted, and thrown into prison by policemen and magistrates, not one of whom were fit to clean the shoes of the least of these, our sisters.
		These comprise the larger firms, many smaller firms also made advances as a result of action of the Union, and in every case the advance made was in proportion to the manner in which the men had stuck to their Union.
	www.ucc.ie /celt/published/E900002-005/text033.html (729 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Because then a collection of ex-members of our movement, who generally couldn't stand the sight of each other, were seized up and brought together, for no good purpose, christened the IPLO, armed and sent to destroy this movement by equal parts senseless violence and shameless misrepresentation.
		And as surely as any keen observer of Irish history might have predicted, a handful of wasters seized the blood money offered by the enemies of our nation and our class and killed yet another leader of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, but this time that movement did not waver, not even for a moment.
		This time, despite the lies and slander spewed forth in the press, despite the deliberate efforts to re-tar our movement with the charge of feuding,despite the blood of yet another martyr who had restored our pride and determination, despite all this, we did not stagger and we did not reel.
	irelandsown.net /costello4.html (1028 words)

	James Connolly
		Connolly became a socialist and in 1896 moved to Dublin as an organizer of the Dublin Socialist Society.
		Despite Larkin raising funds in England and the United States, the union eventually ran out of money and the men were forced to return to work on their employer's terms.
		The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Sconnolly.htm (1782 words)

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