In 1913, John Murphy fired all his employees who had joined the Irish Transport and General Worker's Union led by James Larkin and James Connolly and urged other Dublin employers to follow suit. Larkin and Connolly knew this lockout was a death threat against the Union, so they led the workers in a general strike signaled by the walkout of the Tram workers at 10 AM on August 26. It was a daring move for, although labor unions were not new, they had never succeeded in Ireland where government troops often supported employers. It is ironic that 33 years earlier the Land League had introduced … [Read more...] about The Irish in Labor