HEILS AND GOOSE-STEP
DISLOYAL WORKER GAOLED AT SHEFFIELD LONDON, Feb. 22. An electrician, Oswald Skidmore, aged 48, who goose-stepped through a Sheffield factory giving the Nazi salute has been sentenced to three months’ gaol. Fife was found guilty of each of three charges of making and publishing statements likely to cause alarm and despondency. It was stated in evidence that Skidmore was a shop steward at the works, in which 580 men are engaged on Government contracts. He went about the works giving the Nazi salute and goose-stepping, and declared that one German, fully equipped, was worth five Englishmen; and that Russia and Japan were better countries than England.
“Britain can’t win this war,” he declared.
The prosecutor said that the workmen were so infuriated that they threatened Skidmore.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20492, 28 February 1941, Page 9
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