Extra privileges for jailed unionist
PA ? .s. -’Auckland Extra telephone. ? and visiting'privileges have been given 'to/a union official while he is held in Mount Eden Prison, but Auckland Trades Council leaders'; were angered yesterday wheri'they were not allowed to visit him. The Prime- Minister (Mr Muldoon) said that .the. secretary of the Auckland branch of the Engineers’ Union, Mr J. A, Butterworth, had been given access to telephone facilities in hist cell so that he could talk'
direct to? the Federation of Labour head office th Wellington. -’’Mr Butterwotfh wds one of seyenmen who declined to ..sigh, bail bonds after being arrested for 'trespassing on the ’tarmac 'of Auckland Airport, and he was kept in custody. The Trades Council’s acting president, Mr. P. Purdue, said that, he: and.;?Mr-?M, Jackson had -been''denied entry I .'to the prlson'.in an at-' tempt.-lto' ■ speak*- to? Mr- Butterworth about Mr Muldoon’s ■ assertions that? Air New Zealand and its engin-
eers .fiad reached agreement in the dispute that prompted the Auckland general strike. • 'Mr Purdue said that he and Mr Jackson were told by .the prison superintendent, Mf S. G. Ward, that Mr Butterworth had seen his quota of visitors and would not be treated differently from any other prisoner on court’remand. “M? Butterworth was not ,in-.’ communication, as Mf -Muldoon •«> maintains,” Mr Purdue said. "We were not even permitted a telephone call to him. It was most unsatisfactory.” However, Mr Ward said last evening that Mr Butterworth had twice been allowed to call F.O.L. officials at Wellington — extra calls above the family arid solicitor calls -permitted to remand prisoners. “This was. done in the interests of the public, and the chance that all the troubles would ■be sorted out,” Mr Ward said. Mr Butterworth was also allowed an extra visitor yesterday, above the two-in-t h e-mo'rning, two-in-the-aftemoon rules.
He and five others charged with trespassing spent a second night in the cells last night.
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