FIVE CONVICTED
"UNLAWFULLY BESETTING" A CHRISTCHURCH INCIDENT (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Bight men, members of the Vigilant Committee of the unemployed workers' movement, came before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning, on charges arising out of alleged interference with relief workers in the Christchurch public gardens. The men were Herbert Edward Barnsley, Ernest Llewellyn Jones, Alexander Braid Blanco, Percy Ede, Ronald Hicks (a labourer of Wellington), Leonard James Rosevear, David Carroll AVatson, and James Mackay. The chargo was that on 28th September they intimidated, by unlawfully besetting them, persons at a place at which they were working with a view to compelling them to abstain from working. On the last stage of tho journey to the Court in tho "black maria," tho men sang "Tho Red Flag."
Rosevcar was discharged under the first offenders Act. The charges against Jones and Ede were dismissed. The others were convicted, and their sentences were deferred till this afternoon.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 8
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162FIVE CONVICTED Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 8
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