Irish Republican Army Part 01 · p.137

PH 97-324
The source made available a leaflet advertising
this meeting which leaflet indicated O TUATHAIL' s speech
was cosponsored by the James Larkin Irish Republican Club.
and the Kensington October 4th Organization.
"The Advocate," a weekly newspaper
published in New York City in its
edition of November 6, 1971, contains
an article, "Philadelphia I.R.A. Club".
The article advised that the James Larkin
Irish Republican Club was being formed and
that FRANK HOULIHAN of Philadelphia was
the chairman.
The October 4th Organization is named
after .an important incident in Kensing-
ton history--the rebeliion of October
4th, 1779. During the First American
Revolution, the merchants and business-
men of Kensington and Philadelphia began
to hoard food'and clothing in order to
inflate the prices. On October 4th hundreds
of Kensington people led by THOMAS PAINE
stormed the homes of these merchants, seized
their suppies and distributed the goods free
to the people who needed them.
The October 4th Organization believes that
working class people of Kensington and
other neighborhoods are still oppressed
by the big businessmen, rich merchants
and politicians who serve them--the criminal
ruling class, the behind-the-scenes dictators
of America, the people who run the system
that keeps us down and out.
On 0ctober 2, 1972, PH T-1 advised that on the
prior_evening, approximately'78 individuals appeared at
3146 Frankford Avenue to hear Commandant SEAMAS O TUATHALL
discuss the history of the Irish Revolution. O TUATHAIL,
who indicated he had been with the Irish Republican Army
(I.R.A.), is described as follows:
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