WHAT BOWLING WANTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 178, 7 November 1910, Page 3

WHAT BOWLING WANTS

ANOTHER MEIKLE DEMAND. » By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 0, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, November 5. Peter Bowling was publicly welcomed at Newcastle. He stated that he wanted a Royal Commission to enquire into the manner of his arrest, and he intended to demand that his name, and also his colleagues': names, should be expunged from the criminal records of the State. He further considered the Government should compensate the Federation for monetary losses occasioned by the illegal imprisonment of its leader. MINISTERIAL JUBILATION. Sydney, November 5. The Telegraph has published a cartoon of Messrs McGowen and Hughes rejoicing over Peter Bowling's projected departure for New Zealand. *

The Sydney Morning Herald on Peter Bowling:—''No doubt there are still many people who think that Bowling was the victim of the 'Coercion Act,' and others who think that his imprisonment had at least something to do with the Industrial Disputes Act. The facts, of course, are that Bowling was tried on a criminal charge before an ordinary jury. The ordinary jury found him guilty, and the ordinary judge sentenced him to a short term of imprisonment, tempering justice with mercy. One of the favorite Labor charges for the past few months has been that about Mr. Wade's abolition of trial by jury. It is the irony of fate that Mr. McGowen's first administrative act has "been to abolish trial by jury in the ease of Bowling, and to substitute 'political' justice for the law of the land."