ILLEGAL STRIKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1942, Page 4

ILLEGAL STRIKE

MORE WESTFIELD MEN IN COURT.

MAGISTRATE'S WARNING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Fifty-three mutton slaughtermen, additional to the 63 dealt with last week, were charged in the Police Court today with stopping work at Westfield on January 15, in contravention of the strike and lock out regulations. All pleaded guilty. The defending counsel, Mr W. R. Tuck, said it was a great pity that they took such action though they had a real grievance concerning transport facilities. “One of the most significant factors in the industrial world today is that little notice is taken of grievances until men take violent or extreme action,” Mr Tuck said. “All of which goes to show,” said the Magistrate, Mr J. H. Luxford, “that there must be a' changed outlook on both sides.” He ordered the defendants to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months. They would not be called upon if they complied with the award. “It should be known, however,” the Magistrate added, “that on proof of a breach of the conditions defendants will be liable to arrest and that the Court will deal With them in no uncertain manner if the conditions of the suspension are broken.”