The Dublin correspondent of the Times stated on Friday morning
that a breach has been made, and is widening, between the English trade unions and the Irish Transport Workers' Union. Mr. Gosling and other members of the Trade Union Congress have arrived in Dublin and are ready to negotiate with the employers, but the lieutenants of the imprisoned Mr. Larkin resent this intervention, saying that they would rather forfeit English support than have the dispute settled over Mr. Larkin's head. An interesting point is the belief of the Dublin strikers that Mr. Larkin is the victim of Nationalist capitalists and members of Parliament, and that he has been put away at their command. The correspondent says that Mr. Larkin's chief supporter, Mr. Connolly, has threatened that if Mr. Larkin be not soon released speakers from Liberty Hall will be sent to every by-election in England to expose the Nationalist Party's treatment of Labour. "We shall be told," he said, "that this will injure Home Rule, but we don't want Home Rule from the gang which is now getting ready to sell Ulster." We have written more fully in a leading article of the relation of Liberalism to Labour in the Larkin episode.
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