A SYDNEY STRIKE.
UNION OFFICIALS PUNISHED
United Press /Association, Copyright
' SYDNEY, Nov. 2.-
A strike % of rock-choppers at tho city sewerage works resulted in a charge of instigating a strike being preferred under the Industrial Disputes Act against tho executive of the Hook-Choppers’ Union. Mr. Ryan, secretary of tlic union, was fined £3O or six weeks’ imprisonment. Mr. Ryan declared that he would go be prison. Tho sentence was.received with an angry demonstration by 200 strikers in Court. They hooted the judge, and scrambled over tilie ©eats to shake hands with Ryan. The cases against t-lie other menders of the executive were postponed. SYDNEY, Nov. 3.
The minors at Newcastle, combined with the unions .at Broken Hill, are considering sympathetic action in connection with the jjrosecution of the rock-choppers’ executive. Fifty police have been sent to Broken Hill owing to industrial unrest. United Press Association, Copyright. (Received Nov. 3, 11.32 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 3. Air. Dunlop, president of the Rockchoppers’ Union, was fined £4O, in default two months’ imprisonment. Two other members of the executive of the union were fined £3O each, in default six weeks in gaof, on charges of instigating the strike. All elected to go to gaol.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2339, 4 November 1908, Page 5
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200A SYDNEY STRIKE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2339, 4 November 1908, Page 5
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