Jim Larkin, an Irish trade unionist, who had been closely associated with James Connolly in Ireland and with the Wobblies in the USA, was serving a five-year sentence in Sing Sing prison for promoting his socialist agenda.
The dispute was over the recognition of this labour union founded by James Larkin.
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The ICA's last public appearance was to accompany the funeral procession of union leader James Larkin in Dublin in 1947.
An important figure in the Labour Party in Ireland in its formative days, O'Brien resisted James Larkin's attempt to gain control of the Party on release from prison.
After Big Jim Larkin's 1947 death, his son James Larkin, Jnr became general secretary, and continued to preside over a gradual expansion of the WUI, including amalgamations with a number of other unions.
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He went on to establish contacts with leading British syndicalists like Peter and James Larkin, and other dissidents in the Independent Labour Party, the SDF, and the Clarion movement.