LABOUR LEADER FINED
+ BREACH OF CRIMES ACT SEVERELY REBUKED BY MAGISTRATE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, May 2. (". ceivecl May 2, at 10.50 a.m.) Herbert Carrigan, secretary of the Queensland Seamen’s Union, was fined £IOO, in default a month’s imprisonment, for a breach of the Federal Crimes Act—namely, inciting the crew of the lighthouse steamer Cape York to strike. Ho was also ordered to pay £l5O costs. The magistrate severely rebuked Carrigan, and said that it was only because it was the first prosecution of the kind that he did not send him to prison.
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Evening Star, Issue 19855, 2 May 1928, Page 6
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94LABOUR LEADER FINED Evening Star, Issue 19855, 2 May 1928, Page 6
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