Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: a talk was given on Sean O’Casey (a loyal supporter of IWL) by Patrick Carmody. Paul M. Sekiya, Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Japan, is to speak at the home of Mr. Alfred Bewley under the auspices of the Dublin Society of Friends’ Peace Council and the Irish Pacifist Movement. A small Left -Wing Labour group has been started by Matthew Merrigan and John Byrne. Its policy is anti-coalition.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: little activity of IWL no general meetings “until Russian action in Hungary had ceased to be front-page news.” Executive to meet in homes of members. New Books to remain closed. No sales of Irish Workers’ Voice. Sam Nolan’s lecture abandoned. Jeffares and Carmody attend meeting of Irish Association for Civil Liberties on ‘Capital Punishment’ Sean O’Faolain in the Chair Brendan Behan one of the speakers. Letter from ‘An Irish Worker’ to traders in Dublin Fruit Market asking if James Larkin is a Communist. Letter in response to Workers’ Union of Ireland demanding that the employees of traders compel them to join a trade union. Otherwise dockers would ensure that no fruit trader’s vehicles be loaded at the docks.

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The following items are mentioned in the report: Patrick Carmody gave an illustrated lecture on Sean O’Casey. ‘Buster’ McCabe arrived from Belfast. Peadar O’Donnell spoke on ‘The Irish in Britain’, saying that English Catholics were antagonistic towards Irish émigrés. Tommy O’Reilly (a retired ITGWU official) said that “150 unemployed from each side of the city should purchase food and having no money to pay would be jailed. This would bring matters to a head.”

Typed report on CPI and KO activities. The meeting on the 27th March expressed concern with the likelihood of redundancy and unemployment due to the economic situation. On the 29th March Carmody gave the third of his lectures on Sean O’Casey. Two members of IWL took part in the Easter Commemoration parade at Glasnevin Cemetery