THE BAKERS' STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 300, 12 September 1908, Page 6

THE BAKERS' STRIKE.

y > UNION PAYS THE FINE. tl MEN CONVICTED, BUT NOT PENALISED. - . When the bakers' strike was referred to at tho Arbitration Court yesterday, Mr. E. A. . Lo Cren, inspector of awards, announced that the fine of £100 imposed upon the p union had been paid. 3 Mr. Le Cren said his Honour had indicated 3 that possibly somo .penalty might be inflicted 8 on the individual strikers. He wished to 0 point out that tho men had been very ser verely punished for their ill-advised action, 1 and he hoped that the Court would take that into consideration. His Honour Mr. Justice Sim said that tho union having paid the fine, the Court had i decided morely to convict the individual respondents, and not to imposo any peualty ■ on them. The Court convicted tho following i respondents of tho offence of striking:— s Bernard M'Leehy, Jesse Harlen, Henry TJns- . worth, Bert Crook, Frederick Bishop, Fred- , erick Browning, Joseph Harrison, Frederick Frederico, Bernard Kelly, Thomas Reid, P. 3 Beavis, Thomas Henry Hogg, William J. 1 O'Connor, Andrew Ramage, George M'Whirj ter, Alexander Cochrane, John Halford, Ani drew Munro, Jack Tangye, Alfred Pielo, W. C. Timmings, Walter Flatt, Frederick Greens ough, Thomas Dillon, Oliver Anderson, John . O'Brien, George Meldrum, Jack B. Brown, i Walter Cooper, F. W. Brewer, Thomas , Stewart, Harry Hicks, and John Copp. , Mr. Wilford appeared for sixteen of the respondents, i'