TELEGRAMS. THE IMPRISONED EMPLOYER

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 7 April 1908, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

THE IMPRISONED EMPLOYER

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.]

PROTESTS.

j^PKBSS ASSHCIAIIOM.j DUNEDIN, April 7

ilr William Coom, secretai'y of the Otago JBJinplpyers' Association, has forwarded the toiiowing telegram to the i\ew Zealand Employers' Federation, Wellington: — "The executive of the Otago Employers' Association recommend the Advisory Board of the Federation to at once wait upon the Minister and ascertain why an employer fin Auckland has be.en sp { prprnfitly imprisoned' for refusal to'compry^withjia decision of the Court while, so much leniency and 'procrastination 1 £d dealing with the slaughtermen and Blackball miners has< been 1 'shown; afad tne' Denniston miners allowed to defy the ifct with impunity. The Act must either be enforced impartially or amended or repealed.

WELLINGTON, April 7.

The Minister for Justice has beeen strongly urged by Mr Massey, M.P., to release Dixon. Mr McGowan 'is awaiting a report by the committing Magistrate.