RAILWAY STRIKE INQUIRY.
MAGISTRATES VfIROTEST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oo'syrleht • London! December 23. . The Newcastle magistrates have protested against the unusual tribunal set. up by the Home Office to inquire into the case of Knox, the engine-driver on the North-Eastern Railway, whose dismissal on the ground of drunkenness while off duty resulted in a strike., . .
Tho magistrates gay - that Mr.' Chester Jones, who found that Knox. was not drunk, although he had. been convicted of the offence, is a .magistrate'of only equal, standing with themselves, and declare that as Home Office Commissioner ho displayed a feeling more that of an advocate than a magistrate.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1632, 26 December 1912, Page 5
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102RAILWAY STRIKE INQUIRY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1632, 26 December 1912, Page 5
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