Brian Hanley
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He told Irish activists that he did not take into consideration small matters arising from colour prejudice, since liberty was common to all mankind.
But he said allowance had to be made to meet the shortcomings of narrow minded individuals of both parties concerned.
Helen Golden of the Irish Progressive League asserted that Garvey's movement had inaugurated a history making movement toward the elimination of all race prejudice.
But nevertheless, if the colored longshore men persist in breaking the patriotic strike, the hope of a better understanding of the so called race question is not happy.
Now this was a reference to the fact that many African American workers were going to work.
Nevertheless, it also showed certainly a lack of appreciation for the difficulties for African American workers, who were excluded from much of the docks by the Irish and others, and also a lack of appreciation for their sacrifices during the strike.
Nevertheless, connections were made.
Indeed, Garvey's movement promoted a rally featuring himself and Damon De Valera, which was supposed to take place in january nineteen twenty one.
It never did, though posters for it were produced.
It was also important, of course, that Garvey had connections on the docks with African American workers.
The strike ended very inconclusively.
Indeed, it was quite unclear, aside from the protesting about the arrest of Mannix by British forces, what the strike was aiming to do, except call for a general boycott of British products.
Which would have been hugely significant obviously, given the level of trade between Britain and the United States, but was very unlikely.
Indeed, in nineteen twenty one, the American Federation of Labour ruled out a boycott of British goods.
They were urged to do so.
by some of the British trade unions, particularly James Thomas of the Railway Workers, who was an opponent of Irish self determination.
When Muriel McSweeney, the widow of Terrence McSweeney, visited New York in november nineteen twenty, she was not only greeted by huge crowds, but with a guard of honor of longshore men, who were led by Joseph Ryan, the leader of the International Longshoremen's Association.
Dorain, of course, had opposed the strike the previous August.
Though radicals remained in contact, ethnic competition resumed on the New York waterfront and elsewhere in the strikes aftermath.
The post war of independence period, followed by the dissolution of the Civil War in Ireland, would also be marked by increasing Irish resentment of the progress made by the so called new immigrants in New York and elsewhere, opening the door to bitter rivalry in the nineteen thirties and beyond.
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