THE JUGO-SLAV TROUBLE.
MEN BEFORE iBE COURTBy Telegraph.—Press Association, 'J'auui;m:nui, Last Niglit. Magistrate Ravson, for over eight hours yesterday, was hearing charges against 34 Jugo-S'itivs, for refusing to work on the .Stratford Main Trunk line. Mr. Selwyn May s prosecuted, and Mr. Ostler defended. Commissioner Cullen said that 1800 Jugo-Slavs' had registered in the Dominion, and of these 425 were on national service, :uut, at Matiere, had defied the law and were in rebellion. Mr. Ostler said the men had no definite conditions of piecework offered them, and if such were submitted they would reitirn to work to-morrow. The Crcwn Prosecutor wouljl not accept this. He said they had to think of other Slavs in the Dominion, nnd it wag not a safe policy to give way now. Ho contended that the conditions were explained to the menThe Magistrate reserved his decision, and Mr. Ostler said lie would advise the men to return to work, if the conditions were properly explained according to tie regulation. TTo took up the ease because the new regulations had classed the men as enemy aliens, which thaj were not, and it was a great injustice io the men, who wre loyal to the Allies.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1918, Page 8
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200THE JUGO-SLAV TROUBLE. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1918, Page 8
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