The struggle between the Dublin employers and Larkinism has had
a fresh and formidable development on this side of St. George's Channel, some ten thousand goods men on the London and North-Western, the Midland, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire railways having refused to handle "tainted goods" from Dublin and Liverpool. This action, be it noted, was in direct defiance of the advice of Mr. Thomas, M.P., who warned railwaymen not to be dragged into sectional disputes, and of Mr. Williams, the general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, who has pointed out the injustice of punishing railway companies for doing what they are compelled to do by Act of Parliament. A circular issued on Thursday night by the railwaymen's Executive Committee at Unity House declines to endorse the demand for a general railway strike in support of the workmen in- volved in the disputes in Dublin, Liverpool, and Birmingham, and expresses disapproval of the " well-meant but precipitate" action of those who have left work.
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