N.S.W. MINERS’ LEADERS RELEASED FROM GAOL
(Rec. 10.40). SYDNEY, Aug. 24. The Full Arbitration Court has accepted the apologies of th e eight Union leaders who received gaol sentences during the coal strike for contempt, and has ordered their release. Chief Judge Kelly said that he believed that the men’s regrets and apologies and their submissions to the authority of the Court and law were genuine. Any further retraction of their stated submissions, however, would mean they had perjured themselves in order to escnp e imprisonment. The men concerned were: Idris Williams, general president of the Miners’ Federation; George W. S. Grant, secretary: William Parkinson, vice-president; John H. King, western district secretary; and Maurice M. Fitzgibbon, southern secretary of the Miners’ Federation; also James Healy and Edward C. Roach, respectively the secretary and assistant secretary of the Waterside Workers’ Federation; and Leslie McPhillips, acting-secretary o£ the Ironworkers’ Association.
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Grey River Argus, 25 August 1949, Page 4
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