STRIKE AFTERMATH
.MAN DEFfiATJI)'S'eK.EDiTOS.S. (By tolcEfraflli..—Press Association.! Auckland, February 26. , Another instance of tlio far-vcaehing character of tho recent labour troubles in their reaction bri tho Mfo of tho erm'imMjitvin remote placos came- before tho Palieo Court this morning, when a bankrupt- named William Thomas Mar-' tin, in admitting that lio obtained credit by raisroprese.ntafa'an, pleaded ift extenuation, thai he hud n wife and three young children to keep, and had had tn tight fort-tern with his back to'tho wall, irtconseqwen.ee of his 'being' a, "marked" man, because- of his attitude-do-riag a strike episode-. ' '
Mr? E, "o'"OiiS7 8.M., said tliat is Iwi long ago decided, in eases of raud under tile Baftkriiotcy Act, that Irere ttrtist ahvays l» ft term of' in> irisonineat imposed ujjoii eonviotidn.V.opio -who lost tltc creditors* lnsnov Mi Ms way, tliojigh npfc dishonest hVtho wdinary souse, were a great liotrimciit .0 tli-o community. Titty wont ii«to some business in which they used so.m&itio elso'si capital, and, if 'there Was a loss, it foil oix Urn creditors; if a'gain, it wont to live benefit of the otto' person. lt ; Wilis a ease of "Steads' I irin.; tails the other fellow loses," His Worship was vcaJly sorry to impose, imprisonment in this case, l.mt it was itec«s3.ariy in ilia interest* of tlie com. munitj. Defendant. wouM bo . souteudecl: to a month's bard labour.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 7
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225STRIKE AFTERMATH Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 7
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