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Soon after arriving in Ireland Connolly established the Irish Socialist Republican Party, and while living in America from 1903 to 1910 he helped to organize the Industrial Workers of the World. In 1912, in Tipperary Connolly and James Larkin set up the Irish Labour Party which is still in existence today. Connolly was also involved with Larkin when he established the National Transport and General Worker's Union which conducted strikes to support labour disputes. This was Ireland's first dealings with a Union. Prior to this employers had had a free hand to do what they please with their workers. It was a case that people queued up outside the gates of the factory in the hope that they would get a days work. At this time Dublin was one of the biggest slums in Europe. As a result of this striking action the employers decided on a complete lockdown of the factories during the winter or 1913. This action caused a lot of suffering as a lack of money, food and a very cold winter combined to maximize the suffering of the people on strike. Connolly was also involved in the 1916 rising. He wanted an immediate revolt in Dublin. It was due to Connolly's insistence that the 1916 rebellion go ahead despite some comprises for rebels down the country that the rising actually took place. Connolly actually help plot some of the final details of the rising. After his part in the rising, despite injured and suffering from gangrene, he was propped up in a chair and shot by a British firing squad in Kilmainham, guaranteeing his place as a martyr.
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