UNION SECRETARY FINED.
SUBSTANTIAL FINE IMPOSED. INCITED CREW TO STRIKE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC '•’ELEC RAPII—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) BRISBANE, May 2. Herbert Carrigan, secretary of the Queensland Seamen’s Union, was fined £IOO, in default a month’s imprisonment, for a breach of the. Federal Crimes Act, namely, inciting the crew of the lighthouse steamer Cape York to strike. He was also ordered -to pay £l5O costs.
The magistrate severely relinked Carrigan, and said that it was only because it was the first prosecution, of its kind that he did not send him to prison.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 5
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94UNION SECRETARY FINED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 5
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