UNEMPLOYED LEADER
PLEADS GUILTY TO THEFT (Teh United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, August 10. Arthur Leonard Fisher, lately a leader of the unemployed, pleaded guilty this morning to the theft of £l6 15s, tho property of the Christchurch organisation of the unemployed. Ho was lined £lO and ordered to refund the amount stolen, in default six weeks’ imprisonment. Tho police said the money had been obtained by tickets sold by tho accused for a concert held on behalf of tho unemployed in July. The Magistrate (Mr Mosley) said: “ With the genuine unemployed one must sympathise sincerely, but with men of this typo i cannot have any sympathy at all.” Owing to the lack of subsidies on the amount stolen Fisher has deprived tho unemployed of practically £SO.
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Evening Star, Issue 19943, 13 August 1928, Page 9
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126UNEMPLOYED LEADER Evening Star, Issue 19943, 13 August 1928, Page 9
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