STRIKE LEADERS RELEASED.
ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME AT NEWCASTLE. By Telegraph. — Presi Association.—Copyright. # SYDNEY, 17th May. In accordance with the State Cabinet's decision (cabled yesterday) releasing some of the imprisoned strike leaders, and reducing the sentences of others, James Butler, William O'Connor, and Daniel Hutton have been released. They were enthusiastically welcomed on arrival at Newcastle. May (imprisoned in connection with the Broken Hill trouble) has also been released. [Butler (president of the Coal Workers' Union), O'Connor (secretary of the Coal Lumpers' Union), and Hutton (executive officer of the 'Colliery Employees' Federation) were each sentenced to eight months' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 116, 18 May 1910, Page 7
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97STRIKE LEADERS RELEASED. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 116, 18 May 1910, Page 7
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