Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-12 | Page 1 | General Strike Called in Ireland

ia -jf tt tb Ts y "y yp PROTEST iDE 1 ONTBHMMT Irish Trades Union Congress l and Labor Party to Take I Action MANY ON HUNGER STRIKE IS REPORT Crowds at Gates of Jail Recite Prayers for Dying, Message Mes-sage Says DUBLIN, April 12 The officials of-ficials of the Irish Trades' Union congress and the Labor party ' today issued a call to j the workers of Ireland for a I general strike throughout the j country tomorrow as a protest against the treatment of political po-litical prisoners. PARIS, April 12. George Gavin Duffv, Simu Fein member of parlia-..mFnlWtnil3:en(y;kAVlii'Jsli. parlia-..mFnlWtnil3:en(y;kAVlii'Jsli. lBl to the peace ('Wm to the official- a ttonTfon'SC e council the treatment' of the political tyFlsoners' In Dublin. His stop was actiTated by the following telegram which he received re-ceived yesterday from Dublin: "Over 100 prisoners Incarcerated in Mount Joy prison in Dublin as common com-mon criminals, many being detained on suspicion without charge, have been on hunger strike since Sunday, April 1. They demand the observance of the agreement obtained by 13ishop MacRory and the lord-mayor of Dublin Dub-lin whereby the English government undertook to recognize the special status of political prisoners. "Several men in grave, danger and crowds are reciting prayers for the dying at the gates of the jail." The telegram was signed by Kathleen Kath-leen Clarke of the board of aldermen and Madame O'Rahilly, for the republican repub-lican prisoners' committee. nn