STRIKERS COURT MARTIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 September 1919, Page 2

STRIKERS COURT MARTIAL.

Stories of 3.1 Stl‘ik(}l'>s’ coul't—mal-H33. which had passed 1-1 I'oSolL‘.tiGn t 0 ta" and feather a su-pposed blackleg \V'oz': told at Perth (South Wales), W11:-11 four operative bakers, (:011Cm'11od in the recent cessation of work at Rhondda, where charged wifh violent. intimi dation. .

1 It was stated that at six o'clock in ‘the morning the prosecutor Was march--sed to the top of Rhondda Mountaiii. Where he was stripped naked, and tom that a resoluiion had been passed at :1 coul't-martial of the strikers to tar and fea.tllm' him. , P1'OS(‘(’.11l‘O1' was compelled to Walk two milos; in his home only in his overcoat. For ‘rho defence it was urged that the affair was only a huge joke as 1-0-,<::*::-(ls the tax-ring and feathei-ing, and that‘ prosocufor Voluntarily strippcl liimself, no violence x'vllatoVm- having been used. Fines I's.nging from £6 to £lO were imposed.