The refusal of the Shin Fein railwaymen in Southern Ireland
to work on trains carrying troops or police or to handle muni- tions has at last Wen taken seriously. On Monday soma police- men entered a train at Cloughjordan, in Tipperary, in order to travel to Dublin. The driver and fireman refused to start until the policemen left the train. The policemen sat still ; the train did not move. The driver and fireman were then dismissed. On Tuesday and again on Wednesday the incident was repeated
at the same place and with the same result. The Irish railway- men's union is evidently fearful of the outcome, because it is compelled by Sinn Fein to act as it is doing and yet lacks the funds to support a strike with which-the British Union has no sympathy. The Government and the railway companies cannot compromise with the railwaymen's claim to discriminate against the forces of the Crown.
