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Show IRELAND FACES ' BIG RAIL TIEUP Dock and Building Trade Labor Also Threatens to Start Trouble lu UnDON BRONNER, DUBLJN, Jan. 14 With the struggle strug-gle over tho ratification of the Anglo- Irish peace treaty out of the way, th new Ireland will htn to face a serious ser-ious labor oruiis. This crisis will be of such proportions propor-tions that Sinn Peln statesmanship J will bo put to a severe test and the Very existence of the new-born free Mate will be threatened The three bietgejt groups In Irish organized labor will be involved dock workers, building trades work-ers work-ers and railway men. And many mvtnt-rs of these three 'groups ulso are members of the extreme ex-treme Irish Transport anrl General Workers' I'nion. an orgii nlzatlon jfounded on the one big union" Idea by .Urn I-irkin, now in prison In the I United Plates. (.Kl I mi rs BXPOUNG. ! Factors behind labor unrest are I much the same as those in America. Wage agreements between employers em-ployers and employes expire this Imonlh and must be renewed. Tho employers 'a ' We've got I to cut wages down Until that l-idone l-idone the cost of living nuibt stay up j jWe might as woll have a showdown now. We won't renew the old agree-i Intent. We want to cut wages and1 I lengthen tr.e working day" i But workers reply "The cobI of I living still Is high. That must come down before we'll permit a wage cut. We'll renew our contracts only at the old wage scale. There must he a I showdown and It's coming now " I So. with both workers and bOSSesI firm in their stand, a strike seems j Inevitable bail mi n to Brands. I Every railway employe I've talked ! to hre said he'd strike. And th- 'dockhands and building trades workers work-ers probably will strike with the rail-' way men. I Meanwhile the Irish Transport an ' General Workers' Union growls ominously omi-nously In the background. That organization Is more extreme ir its doctrines than any labor organ-j !l.atlon in the I'rited Mates Its theories are something like those of the Industrial Workers of the World. I Its power is enoemous. Its mem- j bers carry on every process of industry in-dustry farming, oiinlng. flshlnK. I cheese making, butchering, milling. I And this big union Is bhowing signs of enmity toward tho Irish Free State Because it always has been extremely republican and views the recent treaty as a shameful shame-ful compromise, oo rilngko tree, native of China, is now used for park planting in tho northern part of t'.ie I'nlted Ktat. |