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Show IREUNO FIICES IlllLH TOP Refusal of Workers to Carry Soldiers Leads to Near Crisis DUBLIN, Dee. ip Th.- whole traffic traf-fic of the country L- now approaching a ci"tsis owing to the refusal and the railwayman to carry munitions or armed soldiers or polic and the consequent con-sequent suspension or dismissal In each case of the drivers and guards who refused. re-fused. The gradual depletion of the Stjaffa has reached a point at which i lien are not enough nn n to w ork all the lines and some of them have been closed. RIDE ll Ml l SOLDIERS. Daily soldiers present themselves as i last ngors and are r fu-ed, leading to the dismissal of more men. in loss than a month, ibis Is expected to lead to the closing down of all the lines, with tin- exception of the Great Northern, which Is worked by ratlwa) men, who, though belonging to the fles Unfbn, have declined to share In what they regard as an ant l-IJrlt Ish political demonstration. The business immunity views the prospect With ularm. The government Is determined to insist n the railways carrying all traff t ami has threatened threaten-ed that, if they do not do so, the subsidy sub-sidy which enables the dividends to ll,. 1.1 I 1 1 MMU C TVlIu 1. .. B .ll...k..t the railway shareholders who include plenty of sinn Feint rs who sympathise politically with the cl-munltions policy pol-icy of the men. A ready the farmers .I. western Irelanil Cannot get th ir cal-tle cal-tle to the eastern ports for transmission transmis-sion to England. Traders have difficulty dif-ficulty in transmitting merchandise. M I K U OUT. Everybody is hit and tD question is raised whether the demonstration is worth all ii costs'. Some of the newspapers news-papers who encouraged tho men to resist re-sist are now inviting them to rcconsld-1 er the position on the ground that it, has not hurt the government at all, and may ruin Ireland. The men's leaden remain firm, and aro supported by Sinn Keln opinion. I Everybody is seeking for a way out and a formula that would save everybody's every-body's face la eagerly searched for. I |