UNION OFFICIAL AND PRIME MINISTER.
Wellington, Oct. 3. Before the formal resumption of the hearing of the charge against Thomas Young, secretary of the Seamen’s Federation, of having incited a sediti-ms strike, Young drew the attention of the Magistrate to a letter addressed to the Union by the Prime Minister, in the course of which the writer said the seamen had commit led a breach of the strike provisions of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. That letter, Young said, had been published in all the papers, and in his opinion constituted a comment on the ease before the Court, •which amounted to contempt of Court. Ho considered the Premier had exceeded his functions. The Magistrate said the Court had no power to deal with contempt of Court outside its walls. In any case the letter would have no effect on him personally; he had always preserved his inde- - ..
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 4 October 1917, Page 3
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149UNION OFFICIAL AND PRIME MINISTER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 4 October 1917, Page 3
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