Greenwood on Expulsions in Belfast

Introduction from Chronology

Speaking in the British House of Commons about the expulsion of Catholics and ‘rotten Prods’ from their work on Belfast, Greenwood disavows any responsibility saying that he had “no power to insist upon employers employing Roman Catholics, Orangemen, or anybody else” and that he was unable to “compel one trade unionist to work alongside another”.

Question

This statement by Greenwood that the expulsions were nothing to do with him begs the question, would his attitude have been the same if nationalist workers in Dublin were expelling ‘loyal subjects of the King’ from their workplaces in Dublin and driving them and their dependents into penury?

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