ATTEMPTING vTO RESTRICT MUNITIONS OUTPUT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2824, 15 July 1916, Page 10

ATTEMPTING TO RESTRICT MUNITIONS OUTPUT

GLASGOW SOCIALISTS SENTI^CED,

The. three Glasgow Socialists whoso eases under the Defence of the Realm Act wore remittal for trial to tlin High Count of Justiciary came before the Lord Justice-General at .'Edinburgh recently. Two of the defendants, James llnxton and James Duillop MacDougalt, were alleged to have attempted to impede, delay, and restrict the production Of munitions by advising thi; v.'orkeis to down tiols. They pleaded guilty, and expressed icgrct through their counsel, and were sentenced to twelve months' imprison, incut, to date from the time of their arrest six week; age. Lord Stoutcl.niH, in pausing sentence, said that the flower of British manhood had gone. cheerfully to fight the' country's battle.%. and' defendants advised the workers to deprive them of the means of. winning (he war or of defending-them-selves. He found it difficult to believo' that they realised fully the dastarcllincss of their offence, which, if they had been in the ranks, would have entailed the extreme penalty. The third defendant, Jack Smith, a loolmaker. pleaded guilty to a similar charge. The Lord-Advo<.-itte said that, according to the Crown information, prisoner Wils tve associate of a well-known London Anarchist. Papers found on him advocating an International Stop-the-AVar Committee, to spread revolutionary principle!. In his nosswsmn was also the Dublin paper, the "Workers' Republic," of April I, which described Casement »'.s Ireland's Ambassador in BeHin, and urged the Irish to strike a blow at the Empire. Prisoner was sentfcncod to pishtcoi! months' imprisonment from the time o? .bis arrest.