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Show 1 1 J, i-n ,t HK rtAt in' II I I In I I i,--B-5TXCJE EUAHD 1IELW Lloyd George Lectures Rail Men for Refusal to Handle 1 Munitions- DUBLIN. .Tunc 5. Although information infor-mation regarding the number of troops in Ireland is refused -by the authorities, au-thorities, careful estimates place the total at more than CO. 000 Tho declared purpose la to preserve order and protect the police. Some of the barracks now havo wireless installations and a now form of rockets which attracts attention for miles. 1 Workers and .Munitions. I LONDON, Juno D. Tho text or. Premier Lloyd Gporge's conversation 1 with National Union of Railway Mon" leaders Thursday afternoon with re-' gard to tho refusal of Irish railway 1 men to handle munitions shows that1 I he premier characterized tho move as "one calculated to influence political politi-cal decisions, not by tho ordinary machinery ma-chinery of the state, but by bringing pressure to boar through the throat of disorganizing the Industries of this country to effect changes which up to the present tho electroato of this country has not sanctioned." I Mr. Lloyd George declared there had been -forty-eight murders of pollco and 120 attempted murders in Ireland within a short time. The police, ho asserted, wore shot down liko vermin. "Wo cannot possibly accept," t:ie premier declared, "any docreo issued by anybody however powerful that body may be. which denies to tho government tho facilities it regards essential es-sential for carrying out the 1 unctions for which It has boon chosen." AT .Montreal Convention. MONTREAL, Juno 6. A .resolution approving demands for Irish freedom will be Introduced at the convention of tho American Federation of Labor, .Matthew Wool, the vice president, declared de-clared today. I "Bosses' circus," and "American faklrlzation of labor" were epithets, applied to the American Federation of Labor by speakers addrosing a meet-, lng of the ono big union ho -. Charges wero made that riuarc ruiushrdl wore mado that leaders . . tho federation, feder-ation, bought"by capitalists, no longer' served tho workers. 00 ) |