James Connolly as Marxist revolutionary organizer was well-known to the U.S. left, both personally and politically. However, for most of Irish America the image of Connolly was only one of nationalist martyr. Though a good number of working class leaders have come from Irish-America, influencing the decidedly conservative Irish-American working class through its enormously rich native revolutionary traditions has long been a struggle for the left. Since his death in 1916, when Con Lehane began publishing his works and traveling the country creating Connolly Study Clubs, James Connolly’s name and authority have been a ‘way in’ to those conservative Irish workers. Part of ‘honoring’ Connolly for revolutionary Socialists and Communists in the decade after his execution was to insist on preserving Connolly the Marxist. The U.S. Communist movement, with Irish and Irish-American leaders like T.J. O’Flaherty, William Z. Foster, Bill Dunne, and James P. Cannon, attempted a number of campaigns to reach the large Irish-American working class with limited achievement. The 1920s were a reactionary decade in the U.S., but with the Irish Revolution still very fresh, Connolly remained a potent symbol and dozens of local Irish American organizations, labor defense groups, educational societies, labor union caucuses, and social clubs were named after James Connolly by activists associated with the Communist Party during those years. Below are two dozen examples of their activities; ranging from Easter Memorials, to sending famine relief, from hosting Chinese revolutionaries to protesting the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti published in the Voice of Labor and the Daily Worker between 1923 and 1927.

The Memory of James Connolly and the U.S. Communist Movement of the 1920s: Articles from the Voice of Labor and the Daily Worker, 1923-1927.

ARTICLES BELOW FROM THE VOICE OF LABOR (CHICAGO).

James Connolly Soc’y to Hold Mass-Meeting. March 30, 1923.

Captain Robert Monteith, confidante of Roger Casement to Tell of Ill fated Expedition to Ireland. The James Connolly Literary Society of Chicago, organized for bringing the message of economic emancipation which James Connolly advocated home to the Irish workers in America has arranged a meeting to honor the memory of those who gave their lives in Easter Week 1916 to establish a republic in Ireland. The meeting will be held on April 22nd in Emmet Memorial Hall, corner Ogden Ave. and Taylor St. The principal speaker will be Captain Robert Monteith, who accompanied Roger Casement on the expedition from Germany to Ireland shortly before the rebellion. Casement was captured by the British government, charged with treason and executed. The story of the voyage from Germany to Ireland and the secret history of the entire affair will be told for the first time he Captain Monteith who is the only man in a position to tell. The Connolly Club is planning to extend its activities and endeavour to bring greater numbers of the Irish workers into the revolutionary movement in America. It is a radical outpost in the conservative Irish American wilderness and is performing very useful work. The Voice of Labor hopes to see this work carried on with increased energy and the meeting, to be held on April 22nd is one of the methods to be employed in reaching the Irish workers and bringing them in contact with revolutionary propaganda.

Irish Republican Coming to Chicago Mass-Meeting. April 6, 1923.

For Captain Robert Monteith who accompanied Roger Casement on the submarine from Germany to Ireland in 1916 prior to the Easter Week revolution will be the principal speaker at the seventh anniversary commemoration of that event arranged by the James Connolly club of Chicago on Saturday evening, April 24, 8 P.M., in Emmet Memorial Hall, corner of Ogden Ave. and Taylor St. The meeting was originally planned for the following Sunday, but the change of date was necessitated by the inability of the speaker to be present on that day. The Connolly club expects that radicals of all shades of opinion will attend the meeting and help along the effort now being made by our Irish comrades to bring into the revolutionary movement those who have been kept away by the tricks of the cleverest set of politicians in America. Mass meetings of this kind are a means of contact and should be utilized. The proceeds of the meeting will be sent to the Prisoners’ Fund of the C.P. of I. Several of the members of that organization have been executed by the white terror of the Free State and many more are in prison. Tickets are twenty-five cents each and can be secured at Horsley and Bohills, 1237 W. Madison St. and at the office of the Voice of Labor, 2517 Fullerton Ave.

JAMES CONNOLLY CLUB SENDS FINANCIAL AID TO C.P. OF IRELAND. April 13, 1923.

The James Connolly Club of Chicago, which is holding an anniversary meeting of the Easter week revolution in Emmet Memorial Hall, Ogden and Taylor streets, on Saturday evening, April 21. s P.M. recently sent $80.00 to the Communist Party of Ireland and the proceeds of the coming meeting will be devoted to the same purpose. Capt. Robert Monteith, who will be the principal speaker at the anniversary mass meeting, has a thrilling story to tell of his adventure on the submarine from Germany to Ireland prior to the 1916. rebellion. He is a capable speaker and a large audience is expected. Thomas O’Flaherty, editor of the Voice of Labor, will speak, on the present situation in Ireland and the necessity for the Irish workers in America to become active in the revolutionary movement in this country as they cannot very well stand for freedom in Ireland and industrial slavery in America. Tickets for the meeting are twenty-five cents and can be secured at Horsley and Bohills, 1237 West Madison street, and at office of Voice of Labor, 2517 Fullerton avenue.

Irish Radical Meeting Will Be Held April 21. April 20, 1923.

Capt. E. Monteith Irish republican soldier, and one of those who helped James Connolly to organize the Irish Citizen Army, the array of the Irish labor movement, prior to the Easter Week rebellion, will speak here on Saturday evening, April 21, in Emmet Memorial Hall, corner of Ogden Ave. and Taylor St. Thomas O’Flaherty, editor of the Voice of Labor; will speak on the Irish workers in the American labor movement. Capt. Monteith will tell the story of his experience in Germany and his adventure with Roger Casement on the submarine, which took both from Germany to Ireland in 1916.

Irish Trade Unionist to Publish Magazines. April 27, 1923.

CHICAGO. A group of Irish radicals in this city are about to produce a monthly magazine with the object of bringing Irish workers, whose activities are devoted to the national struggle in Ireland, in touch with the progressive wing of the labor movement in America. Among the contributors to the magazine which will be called The Irish People, are T.J. O’Flaherty, editor, Voice of Labor; William F. Dunne, editor, Butte Bulletin: Michael T. Berry, organizer, Allied Shoe Workers; Donagh Dwyer, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and formerly associated with James Connolly: Michael J. Scanlan, of the Street Carmen.

James Connolly Club Holds Successful Anniversary Meet. April 27, 1923.

The seventh anniversary of the Irish rebellion in which James Connolly, the leader of the Irish socialist movement lost his life was commemorated on Saturday evening. April 21, in Emmet Memorial Hall with Capt. Robert Monteith as the principal speaker. He told of his experience with Roger Casement in Germany and the trip to Ireland, which resulted in the latter’s capture and death. Capt. Monteith declared himself a believer in an Irish republic, but it must be a workers’ republic. He was a member with James Connolly of the Socialist Party of Ireland and is now an ardent supporter of the Russian Soviet republic. Thomas O’Flaherty appealed for funds for the imprisoned members of the Communist Party of Ireland, and a good collection resulted from his appeal. Donagh Dwyer, member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, presided. Besides the speeches there were songs and exhibitions of step-dancing. An announcement was made that an Irish monthly radical magazine is about to make its appearance. It will have the support of Irish radicals throughout the country.

Radical Irish Monthly Published in Chicago. June 2, 1923.

Many attempts have been made to reach the Irish workers in America with the kind of propaganda that produces the maximum results with the minimum expenditure of energy and they have all been successful. This may sound queer, but it is nevertheless true. Some people believe that any revolutionary effort that does not present an impatient public with a full fledged revolution after the five O’clock whistle blows is a flat failure. They seem to think that the business of bringing about the downfall of capitalism’ is subject to the laws that govern the business of exchanging watches for pawn tickets. If at the end of the year the pawn broker is nearer being broke than when he started, he is justified in considering the advisability of adding the profession of bootlegging to his accomplishments. Not so the revolutionist. Every time he opens his mouth and says something-sensible of course–in condemnation of the existing robber system and in favor of the establishment of a Communist society he makes progress and is therefore successful. If that is clear we shall proceed. In 1908 James Connolly published a Socialist, paper called the Harp. It rendered good service. Harps are no longer as popular as of yore so the next effort to reach the Irish workers thru the medium of a paper called the Irish Worker was made by Jim Larkin in 1917. after a few issues that paper gave up the ghost but its spirit still lived until 1921 when the Irish American Labor League published the Irish People and continued it is a weekly for six months. The latter was the most ambitious and successful so far made. It has often been said that the Irish never begin to fight until they are licked and if it can be said of any group it is true of the few comrades in Chicago who decided to bring forth a monthly magazine called “The Irish People,” that will tell the Irish workers in America some things they are not told by their bourgeois, superstitious press. It will tell them about the labor movement, what Gompers is doing and not doing, what William Z. Foster is doing and why he is doing it, why Ireland is not free and how to free it, why the United States Government does not Russia and did not recognize the Irish Republic, why they should not support the Democrat and Republican parties and why they should support a Labor Party, in fact, it will tell them mostly everything that can be read in other words in the Voice of Labor, The Worker, and the Labor Herald. The editor of the Irish People is T.J. O’Flaherty. M.F. Scanlan, of the Amalgamated Street Carmen’ Association is Business Manager publishing address is 1615 A Street, Chicago, Ill. The subscription is $1.00 a year. Send in a sub. Among the contributing editors are: William F. Dunne, editor of the Butte Bulletin, Michael T. Berry of the Amalgamated Shoe Workers, Donagh Dwyer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and several others with long terms of service in the labor movement to their credit.

First Issue of “Irish People” Appears. June 16, 1923. The Irish People, “a militant Republican magazine.” makes its first appearance with the June number. In its statement of principles it declares: “The Irish People will uphold with all the vigor at its command the principle that the Irish Republic, established by Connolly and Pearse in Easter Week, has never been repudiated by the people of Ireland. but was crushed by British money, British arms and Irish hirelings of British capitalism. We will urge a course of action on the part of all sincere Irish republicans in Ireland and, America that will ensure the speedy downfall of the Irish traitors masquerading as a Free State government and their supersession by men and women who will be true to the common people of Ireland, namely the workers on the land and in the cities as well as all those who contribute with hand and brain to the development of Ireland in the interests of all the people of Ireland.” It will also further the interests of workers in the United States and other countries. The Irish People is edited by Thomas J. O’Flaherty and is published monthly at 1615 Addison St., Chicago, at $1 a year

ALL ARTICLES BELOW FROM THE DAILY WORKER

Connolly Meeting by T.J. O’FLAHERTY. April 3, 1924.

The Easter Week rebellion in Ireland in the year 1916, led by James Connolly, was celebrated thruout the United States by the nationalist Irish workers but with the exception of a meeting held here in Chicago, under the auspices of the James Connolly. Club, Connolly’s name was barely mentioned. Connolly was the intellectual leader of the Irish labor and revolutionary movement and its brainiest man of action. His writings can be read to advantage not alone by Irish workers, but by Communists of all countries. The nationalist Irish politicians do not wish to give his name publicity fearing that the workers would begin to read his book. Only a small group here in America, who are not carried away by Barnum and Bailey antics, are keeping Connolly’s memory and Connolly’s mess age before the Irish workers and thru their monthly magazine the “Irish People” they are bringing Irish workers into the ranks of the Workers Party as Connolly would have done were he alive today. That is the kind of work that counts; not merely blowing wind into a deflated political bladder.

IRISH RADICALS HOLD MEETING IN CLEVELAND. April 21, 1924.

Organize Connolly Club Boost Daily Worker

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 11. Albert F. Coyle, editor of the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal, and Thomas J. O’Flaherty, of the editorial staff of The DAILY WORKER, were the principal speakers at a meeting of Irish radicals held here Sunday.

At the close of the meeting a club was organized to carry the Communist message to the Irish workers in Cleveland, working in co-operation with the local section of the Workers Party of America.

T.J. O’Flaherty spoke on the life work of James Connolly and his influence on the labor movement in Ireland and the correctness of his tactics. In leading the Irish nationalists against the British government in 1916, he did not betray his communist principles, but was putting his Marxian knowledge to good advantage. Connolly was a man of action as well as a theorist. He was misunderstood at the time by the petrified dogmatists, who in parrot fashion quoted Marx page by page without understanding him, but could not link up the essence of Marxism–which is revolution–with the situation that confronted them in 1914 when the world war broke out.

Albert F. Coyle, spoke on the communal system in ancient Ireland and the contribution the Irish workers can make to humanity, once they are freed from political and economic slavery. He appealed strongly for the formation of a labor party and urged his audience to leave the parties of capitalism that are serving the money power and not the producers. Mr. Coyle was made a decided hit and was applauded at the conclusion of his speech.

The DAILY WORKER was sold at the meeting as well as several copies of James Connolly’s Labor in Irish History and The Irish People, the official organ of the Irish American Labor League.

There is a large Irish population in Cleveland, and the James Connolly Literary Society has set itself the task of bringing Connolly’s message the communist message to those workers and making them a part of the revolutionary army of labor in the United States.

MCCARTHY SPEAKS IN CLEVELAND NEXT SUNDAY. April 19, 1925.

Irish Rebels Active in Famine Relief Work

CLEVELAND, April 17. The James Connolly branch of International Workers’ Aid, Cleveland, Ohio, have arranged for a mass meeting to be held Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m. at Building Laborers’ Hall, 1028 Walnut Ave. for the purpose of responding to the international call of aiding the Irish workers’ and peasants’ famine relief.

Comrade John P. McCarthy, of County Kerry, Ireland, recently arrived and is traveling in this country in behalf of the Irish workers’ and peasants’ famine relief. He will address the above meeting and give in true detail the conditions in Ireland from the workers’ view.

All Irish workers and their friends in Cleveland are urged to attend this meeting inasmuch as we seldom get a speaker from Ireland with international viewpoints.

The Connolly Branch held a successful dance for Irish famine relief, April 4. The hall was donated by the McSwiney Club and Uncle Sam Council of the A.A.R.I R. also the Irish musicians, Messrs. Dever, O’Donnell and Kilbane donated their services. The hall for the McCarthy meeting is donated by Local 66, Building Laborers’ Union.

To all Irish militants in Cleveland: A general committee meeting will be held under the auspices of James Connolly Branch, I.W.A. at 4309 Lorain Ave., Saturday, April 18, at 7 p.m. There is work to be done in regard to the McCarthy meeting so be on hand. Connolly branch committee, John Mulgrew, Patrick Loftus, Patrick Mangan and Frank Mulgrew.

John M. Gallegher, Secretary.

Dunne Pays Tribute to James Connolly at Irish Meeting. May 12, 1925.

The story of the famine situation in Ireland was told to an interested audience in North Side Turner Hall, last Friday evening, by John P. McCarthy, who recently arrived from a visit to the famine region. Several prominent members of labor unions were present and they promised to co-operate in raising funds for the relief of the starving workers and peasants of the west of Ireland.

William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, paid a tribute to the life of Ireland’s greatest revolutionary leader, James Connolly, who was executed by the British for his part in the Easter week revolution. “James Connolly died in vain nine years ago,” declared Dunne, “unless the Irish workers raise the kind of a monument to his memory that is more lasting than bronze or marble, the erection of a workers’ republic, in the land where he laid down his life in the struggle to free his people from British imperialism and the bondage of wage slavery.”

Robert Totten, member of the Plumbers’ Union was chairman. A collection was taken up for famine relief.

JAMES CONNOLLY MEMORIAL MEET HELD IN GOTHAM. May 23, 1925.

Pass Resolution for United Front

NEW YORK, May 21. A mass meeting held in honor of the memory of James Connolly was held Sunday, May 10, at Harlem Terrace Hall, 210 East 104 St. The chair was occupied by Patrick Ennis (Dublin comrade of Connolly and president of the Connolly Memorial Committee.)

A lecture on “Connolly, Patriot and Revolutionist” was given by Joseph O’Byrne, which dealt in detail with Connolly’s ideals of economic and political freedom. An interesting debate followed the lecture. Songs in Gaelic and English were rendered by O’Byrne, the Dublin tenor. The following resolutions were passed unanimously and copies ordered sent to President DeValera, Sean T. O’Kelly, envoy Irish Republic, Miss Mary MacSwiney, William O’Brien, Sec’y Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, James Larkin, Secy. Irish Workers’ Union, and the press:

(1) Whereas, it is now apparent to all unprejudiced observers that economic and political extinction of the historic Irish nation is the goal of the governments of the Free State and “Northern Ireland;” this mass meeting of the Irish workers held to honor the memory of James Connolly urges the workers and peasants of Ireland to inaugurate a policy of political, economic and social boycott of the “Free State” and “Northern Ireland” usurpations.

(2) We urge all Irish republicans to refuse payment of taxes to said usurping governments and not recognize any courts of law functioning under their “parliaments.”

(3) We urge all citizens of the de jure Irish Republic to boycott and refuse all social recognition to members of the Northern and Southern Irish parliaments, members of the army, civil guard, peace commissioners, etc.

(4) We urge all members of the Irish labor party to withdraw from the “Northern” and “Southern” parliaments and form a working alliance with advanced labor in Great Britain, Russia, France, Germany, etc.

(5) We urge the officials of the Transport and General Workers Union and the Irish Workers Union to unite and make a united stand for the establishment of the Workers’ Republic in Ireland.

(6) We urge the Irish republican party to throw its whole strength, moral, physical and financial, into an immediate political, economic and social boycott of the enemies, lay and clerical, of the Republic of Ireland as established in 1916.

Irish Republicans in Cleveland Raise Funds for Relief. May 28, 1925.

CLEVELAND, May 26. Tom Kilbane, 2035 West 50th street, is now puffing at a genuine Irish briar pipe from the well-known Kapp and Peterson’s, Dublin, as a result of an affair held here on May 17, for Irish famine relief, under the auspices of the James Connolly club of Cleveland.

The club, which is affiliated with the International Workers, Aid, is planning to hold a dance in the near future. Since its organization, the club has been very active and has already sent funds to the Irish famine sufferers thru the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief, at 19 South Lincoln street, Chicago. The local office is at 5927 Euclid avenue.

Benefit for Irish Famine Sufferers in ‘Frisco Saturday. June 18, 1925.

SAN FRANCISCO. The International Workers’ Aid and the Pierce-Connolly Club have combined their forces for the purpose of giving a big benefit entertainment and dance for Irish famine sufferers. This entertainment will be held on Saturday evening, June 20th at the Knights of the Red Branch Hall, 1133 Mission St. A program has been arranged consisting of Irish songs and folk dances and of various vocal and instrumental numbers. After the entertainment dancing will be enjoyed until midnight. The admission is fifty cents, and all the proceeds of this affair will be devoted to the relief of the Irish peasants, workers and fisher folk.

New York Will Have Connolly Memorial Meeting Wednesday. May 11, 1926.

NEW YORK, May 9. Friends of the martyred Irish revolutionist, James Connolly, will meet at the Bryant Hall, 725 Sixth Ave. and 42nd St., Wednesday night, May 12, at 8 o’clock.

The James Connolly memorial committee, which has charge of the affair, extends a hearty invitation to all nationalities to attend.

Benjamin Gitlow and Scott Nearing will speak. Other speakers include P. Ennis, Chairman J.J. O’Byrne and P.L. Quinlan.

ENGLISH, WELSH, SCOTCH, IRISH WORKERS UNITE. May 28, 1926.

Four Races Combine in N.Y. League

The success of the James Connolly Memorial meeting at Bryant Hall, and the solidarity of English, Welsh, Scotch and Irish workers during the general strike, is responsible for the workers of these races in New York organizing a society to be known as “Four Races Educational League.”

It will be launched at a mass meeting, Friday, May 28, 8 p.m., at Laurel Garden Hall, 79 East 116. The following program will be submitted to the meeting as the object of the new organization:

The Program.

(1) To foster a spirit of brotherhood and class solidarity between workers of Irish, English, Scotch and Welsh birth or descent.

(2) To aid a United Labor Front Movement for the formation of an American Labor Party.

(3) To establish and maintain close relations with workers’ organizations. aiming at the establishment of a workers’ government.

(4) To support the demand for the recognition by the United States of the Republic of Soviet Russia.

(5) To combat the existence of race and religious differences between workers of Irish, English, Welsh and Scotch birth or descent.

(6) To establish classes for the study of working class economics and publish literature for distribution among both organized and unorganized workers of the four races in factories, shops, mines and on farms.

All Workers.

Former members of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, Irish American Labor League and Connolly Club, are actively connected with the new movement–All English, Welsh and Scotch workers in New York are asked to join with their Irish comrades in this anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, Education League. Admission will be free. Prominent Irish, English, Scotch and Welsh speakers will address the meeting.

IRISH WORKERS OF CLEVELAND TO HOLD MEET. September 30, 1926.

Connolly Society Plans To Aid British Miners

CLEVELAND, Sept. 1. The James Connolly Branch of the Irish Workers’ Alliance of this city is planning an entertainment and dance, the proceeds to go to the aid of the striking miners. A meeting of the alliance to complete arrangements for the affair will be held at the new permanent headquarters of the organization at Garden Square Market Hall, Room 15, on Friday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.

For Complete Embargo.

The Irish Workers’ Alliance favors an immediate embargo on coal shipments from the United States to Great Britain during the general strike according to a statement issued by Daniel Sheehan, secretary, and John M. Gallagher, organizer. The organization supports the revolutionary wing of the Irish republican movement and states that only a workers’ and peasants’ government can solve the Irish question.

The officers of the society are appealing to Irish workers in Cleveland thru the columns of The DAILY WORKER to visit their headquarters and become acquainted with their aims.

CHINESE LEADER BILLED TO SPEAK AT IRISH MEETING. March 1, 1927.

Irish Workers to Honor Martyr’s Memory

Samuel Chang, member of the editorial staff of the Chinese Nationalist Daily, a member of the Koumintang Party and active worker in the movement for the liberation of China from world imperialism will be one of the principal speakers at a mass meeting in Bryant Hall. 42nd Street and 6th Avenue on Friday evening, March 4, to honor the memory of Robert Emmett, Irish revolutionary leader who was murdered by the British government in 1803 for leading the Irish masses in a revolt against British rule.

Actor to Speak.

In addition to Mr. Chang, Lieutenant Charles Underwood, member of the Actor’s Equity Association, formerly of the British army will represent the sentiments of millions of British workers who aim to establish a Workers Republic on the ruins of British capitalism.

William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER will speak on James Connolly, the leader of the Irish rebellion of 1916. T.J. O’Flaherty will preside.

The meeting is being arranged by the Irish Workers Republican Alliance which aims to assist the Irish workers in achieving political and economic independence.

IRISH WORKERS WILL CELEBRATE EASTER REVOLT. April 23, 1927.

The eleventh anniversary of the Proclamation of The Irish Republic during the Easter week revolution of 1916 will be commemorated at a mass meeting in Bryant Hall, 725 Sixth avenue (42nd street) next Sunday, April 24, at 8 p.m., under the auspices of the Irish Workers’ Republican Alliance.

This rebellion was the first revolutionary outburst of a subject people that challenged an imperialist power from the time the bugles of war were sounded until then. On the following year the banner of revolution. was raised in Russia and was never hauled down.

The spark that was ignited in Ireland by Connolly, Pearse and their comrades will be fanned into a burning flame by the workers and peasants and Ireland. It is the purpose of The Irish Workers’ Republican Alliance to help keep that spark alive and to feed the flame.

Among the speakers will be William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, Pat Devine, from the famous Clyde in Scotland, Marius Charles Underwood, Actors’ Equity Association and T.J. O’Flaherty. Admission is free.

Irish Will Hold Memorial Meeting For Jas. Connolly. May 14, 1927.

The eleventh anniversary of the execution of James Connolly, Irish socialist revolutionist will be commemorated next Sunday evening beginning 8 p.m. at a mass meeting which will be held in Bryant Hall, on Sixth avenue near 42nd street under the joint auspices of the Irish Workers Republican Alliance and the Leitrim Irish Republican Club.

James Connolly and Sean MacDermott, two of the signers of the proclamation of the Irish Republic were executed on the same day (May 12) by the British government of which the yellow socialist Arthur Henderson, secretary of the British Labor Party was a member.

Among the speakers at the meeting will be B. Gilgunn, who fought in the 1916 rebellion and in every succeeding struggle until the Republican forces were defeated by the Free State forces aided by the British. T.J. O’Flaherty, of The DAILY WORKER editorial staff, Patrick L. Quinlan, associate of James Connolly, J.F. O’Kelly, president Leitrim Irish Republican Club and William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER and member of the Central. Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party.

Joseph O’Byrne, secretary of the Irish Workers Republican Alliance will preside.

Irish Workers For Sacco and Vanzetti Freedom. May 18, 1927.

Under the combined auspices of the Irish Workers Republican Alliance and Leitrim Irish Republican Club, a memorial meeting in honor of the memory of James Connolly and Sean MacDermott, both executed by England May 12, 1916, was held at Bryant Hall, Sunday, May 15.

The speakers were: P.L. Quinlan, (Associate of Connolly) B. Gilgunn and P. Lennon. I.R.A. associates of Sean MacDermott, J.F. O’Kelly, President Leitrim Irish Republican Club, and J.O. Byrne, Secretary of I.W.R.A. Support was pledged to The DAILY WORKER and to the militant Irish Republican and Labor Movements in Ireland. The following resolution was passed unanimously and copies ordered sent to the governor of Massachusetts, The DAILY WORKER and the Secretary of International Labor Defense.

Resolved, this mass meeting of workers of Irish birth or descent at Bryant Hall, 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City, this 15th day of May, 1927, hereby respectfully request Your Excellency as Governor of the Sovereign State of Massachusetts to appoint a Commission of inquiry into the conduct of the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, at present under sentence of death as the result of perjured testimony and judicial prejudice which constitute a gross miscarriage of justice.

Irish Workers Have Study Class. June 29, 1927.

The Leitrim Irish Republican Club, composed of Irish workers, pledged to the support of the Nationalist revolutionary struggle in Ireland has organized a study class in history and economics for the benefit of the members of the society.

P.L. Quinlan, former associate of James Connolly, conducts the class which meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 8:30 p.m. at Mayo Halls, 203 East 67th St., Manhattan. The next meeting of the class will take place on Wednesday, July 13th. Irish workers desirous of taking advantage of this opportunity are urged to enroll with Thomas Byrnes, 414 Fourth Ave., Astoria, L.I.