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Author: Stephen Corrigan
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1924
Labour reorganisation
Between seven and eight hundred people attended a labour meeting at Eyre-square, Galway, on Tuesday night, when Mr. Drummond, chairman, Galway Transport Workers’ Union, announced that the meeting was held for the purpose of reorganisation.
He appealed for support for the Transport Union and stated that sectional differences between labour bodies could only bring disunity in the ranks of labour.
The workers should stand together. If the workers were not to be broken by the employing classes, they should be united and should be members of one big union.
The speaker did not like to refer to politics, but his attitude on the question of the release of the prisoners weas well known.
Mr. David Lynch, Transport Workers’ union organiser, Dublin, had a cordial reception on being introduced by Mr. Drummond. Mr. Lynch dealt, at length, with the great necessity for organisation, and said that so far as the workers were concerned the present was the most crucial period with which they had to deal.
On all sides attempts were being made to reduce the workers’ wages. Recently in Westmeath an attempt had been made to cut down the wages of roadworkers, but thanks to the splendid organisation of labour in that county the attempt failed.
Pictured: Noel McDonagh, Lenaboy Avenue, Taylors Hill, and his Golden Labrabor dog await their turn for judging at the Galway Dog Show in Leisureland on January 18 1981.
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