1 MAY 1920, Page 2

The question was again raised in the House on Wednesday

when Mr. T. P. O'Connor, on a motion for the adjournment, sought to justify the impudent threat of some Irish dock labourers at Liverpool and Glasgow to hold up British shipping if the Sum Fein prisoners were not released. Mr. Sexton, as the head of the Dockers' Union, 'repudiated such "direct action," but as an Irishman he feared that his fellow-countrymen would go on strike. Mr. Shortt pointed out that the Sinn Feiners interned were strongly suspected to be privy to the campaign of murder, and that they were well treated. The Government "certainly would not yield to any threat from Liverpool."