I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times!