SEDITIOUS STRIKE CHARGE.
| PREMIER'S LETTER RESENTED, By Telegraph.—Preaa Association. Wellington, Oct. 3. Before the formal resumption of tKi« hearing of the charge against Young, tlio secretary of the Seamen's Federation, of having incited a seditious strike, Voting drew the attention of the Magistrate to the letter to the union from t,ho Prime Minister, in the course of which the writer said that the seamen had committed a breacli of the provisions ot the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. That Young said, had been published in all the papers, and in hig opinion constituted comment on the case before Die court and amounted to contempt of court. He Considered the Premier had exceeded his functions. Tho Magistrate said tha court had no power to deal with contempt of court outside its Avails.. In any case tha letter would have no effect on him personally. He had always preserved hit Independence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1917, Page 4
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149SEDITIOUS STRIKE CHARGE. Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1917, Page 4
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