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The Plough1971The Southern state and its partiesThe Southern state and its parties
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Last vear 22 workers were killed while doing their job. According to the Report of the Factory Inepecterate fer that vear mest of thesedeaths occurred cue tc: the criming) neg lipence- ol employers, 4 farther 2,40) workers. were maimed anid mutilated curing the came 12 months. Yet only 140 employers were brought before the cours by the Laspectorate. OF theae 3) had the cases againat thern dismissed without further ado, and fines totalling no bare than £600) were imgrased on the re maining hundred. A bit oF mathematical deduction will show you that the leh Stace considerk the lite of an ordinary worker to be val wed at about 267 The developments which oecuired when Garda Richard Fallon was killed in the Artan Qusy Hank raid must therefore fae caused some confusion in the minds of my cimlinare wer kers, Here was a min. us the Minister for Jus fice odd, who esas killed ia the course af fis daily work, Hut instead of the whole affair being brushed urder the carpet as would have hopper: ed with any other worker. it as blown up across the televielon semen and the newspapers front pages. Mliniaters, Bishops, ond high ranking. ollicials made many selemn stacements ne empathy, oubkernation and coutrage,: This time the povernicent had no indentien of inp lng a mere £6 fine leaving the culpelt te oontinue an obscure eusteoes On the contrary, a S00 reward yeas oclered abevery sen ani dirpurl was clue chown inal atlenipl to ap preheded those resparisitle. Systematic aearediing and questionoing with a few assaults, beatings, and 6 few threats of sevenge were the onder of the day. Verbose editorials, articies, anc open letters anounded: To-cap it all, a state funeral wat added ag an extra propaganda stunt.
What made the devth of Garda Pallones diftercnt from the cruel deaths imposed on same 22 other workers? How come that thelr imemorigs an condemned to abscurity while the name of Garda Fallon is continuously evoked iy “all right minded people? The sécret of the marter i that Garde Fallon ced detending private pro perty and more important still, in suppressing the struggle of the revolutionarkes in the North. Make no mistake about it, without the funds expropriated from the svuthem government the fight in the Korth could nothave gone for as Ooaneas it hat. or at the mace that it hes. without the help of the money and arms supplied by The Free State poveriment aml the [Irish emplayers whe are ound hand ant boot by Brifish capital realise this and are determined to smish Supar bine; Bebore Acer Quay they hud ilready aliemplen. atocesdully ut that, ta Tame some Sacr Fire militants. The case of Joe Dillon who it toa charged with the mune deral Fullon is aga on pent, ln 196? Dillon wis arrested on an armed robbery charge nearly ayeuralierithe aleged offense had occured. The Special! Branch offered fim enone if he would into and when he told them where to stick their money they vowed to crush him, He was put on identity parade, but not ome of the witnesses identified him, Nonethebess, the cops kept him in custody and after abour six months brought him tetrish The onky evidence thev had against him was o thumb print, How ever, this ais of dubious value since oly 14 pedinis oF it bore resemblence to Dillons thumb prints, Wt should be remembered that Scotland Yard dencnd a minimum of 21 points belore they use Hingerprints evidence. Monettieless, Judge O"Keeleabrother- in-law of Seon Lemmas und aright basturd, gave Dillon & years. Hu ever be had to admit that perhaps the evidence Waa Tot conclusive!
There can be Gitth: dowbt that the Sate is auido amath Saor Eire ond they have seized on the Aran Uniay tak te do juse chis. To dace thei eftorcs i this respect hare bean truarrated. Already they have failed to frame Frank Keanopt withstanding the fantastic witch hunt they mounted in the moniss tesla, In fact, their cose waa greath: dumaged in this epigode by the obvious perjury of sone of the police wilesses.
Hiavicg faibed, they are now lurning ther efforts towards Morrisey and Dillan, to well-known Socialiat-Republicans who have never aliirked cheir duty to the revolutionary cause. Again they are uaing ihe sime compromised scum te frame these twtr revolutionaries! There is een to che slupaidit if the Police and their hatred for Saar Biles, The Young Socialists call for the defence of Merri esry nod Difarrcin the name of the stringer be ae anal capitalism and British intperialism, all those who ar mierésted should send funds to the Detencs Camqalgn, care of the Young Socisligts,
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