STRIKE & HOME LIFE.
"THESE MEN HAVE BEEN FOOLED." , lit the courso of tho ordinary Court proceedings yesterday, May Grant proceeded against William Grant for the disobedience of a maintenance order and £5 ss. in arrears up to November 24. Mr. J. J. M'Grath appeared for complainant, and Mr. J. S. Barton for defendant. _ Evidence was given to tho effect that defendant was a wharf labourer, and had injured his foot previous to the striko. He had been confined to tho Hospital until tho day following that on which the union went on striko. Ho had stayed cut on strike since, aud had lived with his mother, so that his •wife 'and child wero unprovided for. Tho wife iii tho meantime was living oil her earnings, which amounted to £1 a week. Mr. Barton explained that the men. on striko had been told by a union official that they might bo ablo to go back to work any day. These men had been fooled, and' defendant was one of thorn. -
His Worship.remarked'tliat this was nothing in defendant's favour, and that his wife would have starved as a result of his action had sho not been _ able to live. with . her married sister.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 6
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201STRIKE & HOME LIFE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 6
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