SEDITIOUS STRIKE
FREEZING WORKS EMPLOYEES
By Telegraph.—l'rcs3 Association. Gisborne, July 2. A prosecution under the War ficgtilations Act for an 'alleged seditious strike took place at the Magistrate's Court before Mr. Barton, H.:\L, as Uiu outcome of a stoppage of work at the Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Works, on February 2S last. The men charged were George Pollard, David Irwin, Herbert Stanley Davis, Charles Hays, Walter Birkett, Hector Percy Swi\n, George 'Williams, Joseph Thomas Morgan, and Sobert Lewis, all of whom wero described as freezing works employees. After hearing the evidence. His Worship said that strikes were detrimental things at any time, but at the present 'time, when n war was in progress, it was the duly of every British subject to render all possible aid in the cause. He wur.id lako into onsideration the fact that the men returned to work I lie following day, and would impose a penalty of .£:j each, in default seven days' imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 244, 3 July 1918, Page 5
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157SEDITIOUS STRIKE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 244, 3 July 1918, Page 5
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