ABATTOIR STRIKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1942, Page 4

ABATTOIR STRIKE

TROUBLE AT AUCKLAND WORKMEN PROSECUTED. SENTENCE DEFERRED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) , AUCKLAND, January 28. A sequel to the recent industrial troubles at the Auckland municipal abattoir was the appearance in the Magistrates’ Court of 43 of the employees, who were each charged before Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., with being a party to a strike under the Strike and Lockout Regulations, 1939. The prosecutions were the first of theii kind in the Auckland district. The Court presented an unusual spectacle as the defendants responded to their names and lined up in rows six deep. The Inspector of Factories instigated the proceedings. The defendants pleaded guilty. Charges against nine other employees were withdrawn, and anothei man, J. Kennerley, pleaded not guilty. “The proper course in this case is not finally to dispose of the matter,” continued the magistrate. “If I inflict the penalty of a fine now, I think I the best ends of justice would not be 1 properly served. Defendants will be ordered to come up , for sentence if called upon within the next 12 months. < You will not be called if your work is ; carried out in a proper spirit and ( manner.” He added that if there were any , more breaches of the regulations there j would be no question of imposing fines and offenders would be sent to J prison. - (