HEALY FINED £4O
ANTI-PICKETING LAW PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS BRISBANE, April 14. Michael Healy, aged 41, secretary of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council, has been convicted of an offence under the recently-passed Queensland Anti-picketing Act and fined £4O with £25 9s costs. The conviction is the first under the Act.
The Court has yet to hear 41 other charges against 14 men, including three more against Healy. The maximum penalty under the Act, which became law during the Queensland rail strike, is a fine of £IOO or six months’ gaol or both. The charge against Healy set out that on March 11 he failed to leave the vicinity of the Shell oil depot when ordered to do so by a police sergeant and that his presence near the depot was likely in the opinion of the sergeant to influence oil workers to take part in an illegal strike. The Crown prosecutor said that the defendant’s name was Francis McCracken, alias John Healy, and that he was convicted of armed robbery in Belfast. Ireland, in 1923 and of two relief frauds in Brisbane in 1935. Counsel for Healy denied the alleged Belfast conviction.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22612, 15 April 1948, Page 5
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