AN OUTSPOKEN JUDGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 May 1913, Page 5

AN OUTSPOKEN JUDGE.

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READS A LESSON TO STRIKERS. PREFERENCE iU UNIONISTS. (Reecived Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) SYDNEY, May 19. In the Industrial Court to-day fifty more men who ware concerned in the recent railway strike at Darling Harbour were lined £lO each and £1 Is costs, leviable ow thc-ir wages. Judge Heydon read a severe lesson to the men. He declared that their defence was a series of transparent and dishonest sophistries. Like spoilt children, all he could see was that when they were not getting their . own way in everything, they looked upon the community as to be kicked about at their will," and be further despoiled and insulted on the least provocation. It was an evil sign of the times that this attitude should appear, not merely towards private employers, but the State. The men returned at the crack of a whip, for fear of. losing their positions. Fright, and not fidelity had brought them back. Referring to the subject of preference to Unionists, Judge Heydon said, "Let the Labour leaders beware lest 'tiny set the country thinking that the preference should rather be to those who set loyalty to the State above the dictation' of any private body. No punishment- that this Court could inflict would b? comparable to that which the community, in its good nature and patience, abstained from inflicting."