THE BAKERS' STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9184, 5 September 1908, Page 5

THE BAKERS' STRIKE.

CHARGE AGAINST ANDREW COLLINS DISMISSED. UNION HEAVILY FINED. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, September 4. The Arbitration Court to-day decided that it was impossible to find Andrew Collins guilty of aiding Jtnd abetting the bakers' strike. The Court upheld the Attorney-General's pronouncement that a striker's offence is an act that does not continue from day to day, but is complete when it first occurs The Court also made an order directing the Bakers' Union to pay a fine of .2100. If the Union does not pay the fine the Court intimated that it would inflict a .substantial penalty against the men. A novel point, raised by counsel for John Domencch, charged with aiding and abetting the strike, was upheld by the Court. . The contention was that defendant, who was once a baker, was neither a worker nor an employer under the Act, and the case against him was therefore dismissed. The judgment, however, contained a scathing comment on Domeneeh's conduct, and styled him an irresponsible mischief-maker. The Court added that the case showed the necessity of amending the law so as to make it penal, as in Canada, for any person to incite or encourage any worker to go or continue on strike.