STRIKE ECHO.
A GUARD FINED. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. f WANGANUI, -Tune 16. An echo of the recent railway strike was heard at the Magistrate’s Couit today, when Charles Downey, a guard, was charged wun using insulting language on tlxei Kai Iwi station platform on April 2-1, with intent to promote a breacii of the peace. The evidence showed that when a skeleton service train reached Kai Iwi there was a group of men on the platform, and Downey remarked to Inspector Miriams that he would not be a scab. TluTtraffie inspector replied: £ ‘l will get off and you gei on the train.'’ Witness replied, again using the word “scab.” The defendant said he merely asked in a friendly way how the inspector liked his job, and when the latter offered to let him run the train he said he could not be a scab. The magistrate said that he was satisfied that the charge was nroved. Defendant was foolish to have used the expression. He inflicted a tine of £2 10s with £1 14s casts, in default 14 days’ imprisonment. It was stated in evidence that the defendant had a 30 years’ unblemished record of service.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 3
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197STRIKE ECHO. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 3
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