Leaflet quoting telegram re. postal workers proposed Strike, from JJ Walsh, Postmaster General
TitleLeaflet quoting telegram re. postal workers proposed Strike, from JJ Walsh, Postmaster General
ReferenceU421A/3
Date
28 Feb 1922
Production date 1922 - 1922
Scope and Content'HEADS UP!', [republican or socialist propaganda] leaflet containing the text of leaked telegram from JJ Walsh, Postmaster General, Provisional Government. 'First Fruits of Freedom for Workers....Walsh, when threatened with a strike of the postal workers, sent the following telegram to London.....Anticipate sectional strike of employees disloyal to Free State... Provisional Government determined to dispense with their services and substitute those hundreds of loyal Irishmen in Great Britain seeking transfer....'. (The Provisional Government had cut the pay of postal workers, who threatened industrial action).
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Persons keywordWalsh, James J. | TD | Irish Volunteers leader | Postmaster General, Irish Free State, Irish Free State, Provisional Government, Irish Free State
AccessOpen by appointment to all holding a current reader's ticket
RightsSubject to rules governign reproduction of records at CCCA
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