"GO SLOW" POLICY.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 96, 25 April 1917, Page 3

"GO SLOW" POLICY.

CHARGE/ AGAINST FEDERATION

PRESIDENT

[Press AssoctattoiO AUCKLAND, April 24. Th? charge p.crainsb John- Jones,

president of the Coal-miners' Federation, vtis1. proceeded with to-dnv. The pvidr.nrv consisted-of letters and teleTrnms s^iwd nt the time of the" j>t-;-?;t,::t T^:n% on April 3rd,..chiefiy fO'"nmuni;ation« Jivmn Afr -Arbtiefr'e, I ,"!RC!'r-t;i.r;'-,cf i/he Federation, in tho. ) oour.SM ol: whicli frequen-h, r?ccrpnces j ore madfi to ?>^r Arbtickle's efforts to i a;et, t.Tio Y'e-rt Cnai-t miners to endorser ] n'nrl to io:cood vith. the restriction of

output. One of the telegrams re- . fer-ed to the Australian stnko. \ .Mr Singer, counsel for the defence, r seized the opportunity to reply to a ' statement made yesterday by Mr ' Meredith in quoting Arbuckle's cableJ grim to Australia. - He said that ! Air Meredith was probably not aware * tlj,i+ the cablegram in question was 1 worded at a conference of three ' parties, including the Minister for - Justice', was written by one of the Minister's secretaries and was sent by lorn at the Government's expense.