SIX MONTHS' GAOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 659, 10 May 1929, Page 9

SIX MONTHS' GAOL

STRIKERS PUNISHED FOR SERIOUS ATTACK BRUTAL TACTICS USED SYDNEY, Thursday. Five strikers who were concerned to the attack upon Mr. \V. H. Simpson, managing director of Messrs. Bell and Frazer, timber merchants, of Rozelle, and some volunteer workers, at Leichhardt on May 2, were today sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The magistrate, Mr. J. W. M. Latdlaw, commented strongly on the brutality of the strikers’ tactics. He said he must make examples of the accused. One of the men collapsed when he heard the sent<\:e. The wives of the accused sobued hysterically outside the Court. At Melbourne, a deputation from thetimber workers’ strike executive today waited on the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, and asked for sustenance for the dependants of the men who are unemployed through the dispute. The Prime Minister emphatically declined to allow Jock Garden, secretary of the Sydney Trades and Labour Council, to enter the building. He promised the deputation he would see if the parties to the dispute could again be brought together, but would give no undertaking in reference to sustenance.