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...strike. Upon Labor are only two limitations: 1) no violence; 2) no fraud. The only way an employer involved in a labor dispute can get a Federal injunction will be to prove to the court that he has made "every reasonable effort" to settle the strike; to show under oath that unlawful acts have been committed or threatened against him and to convince the judge that failure to enjoin the strikers will do him "substantial and irreparable" injury. He must also file an adequate bond to recompense the strikers in case the injunction is quashed...
...order to become President, tall, stoop-shouldered, teacherish Mr. de Valera had to take, in writing, this oath...
...when inscribing this oath (required of all Irish Free State Deputies), Mr. de Valera said severely to the oath-clerk, "I am not taking any oath or giving any promise of faithfulness to the King of England. ... I am putting my name here as a mere formality...
...only if supported by both his own Fianna Fail Party and the Irish Labor Party. Up to last week nearly all Englishmen and numerous Irishmen had supposed that the Irish Labor Party was dead set against two of victorious de Valera's pet projects: 1) abolition of the oath of allegiance to King George which is required of members of the Dail; 2) repudiation of the $25,000,000 payments annually made by the Irish Free State to Britons who used to own land in Ireland- the famed "absentee landlords." Suddenly and officially last week the Council...
Promptly prospective President de Valera said "The oath of allegiance to King George is obligated by Article XVII of the [Irish Free State] Constitution. We propose to remove that article." Said President Cosgrave, "I hope the new Government will be an honorable one and that if the oath of allegiance to King George is done away with it will be by negotiations." Thus there seemed small doubt last week that King George, the fly in Irish freedom, will be swatted...