WATERFRONT TROUBLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9743, 7 March 1914, Page 3

WATERFRONT TROUBLES.

EX-STRIKER SENTENCED TO 14 DAYS'. (PSB PBKSB ASBorsiAXIOV.} AUCKLAND, March 6. At the Police Court Ljaniol King, a waterside work or, was charged that he assaulted Stanley Richards, (secretary >i the "\\ atersiders' 1 nion. It was rJ;eged that accused called at the union >Hico and aj) lined Richards on account or his having been excluded from the membership of the new union. He seiz•■d Rickards by the throat and had to ■>e pulled off by several other men. Counsel for accused submitted that King had a very strong motive for his attitude towards the officials of the new union who were responsible for rules which counsel described as cruel and which had resulted in hundreds of men being kept out of work for many weeks, rhough there was work for thc-m on the wharves. King was a married' man with •i wile and family, and when he left home there was no food in the house, rle had applied several times for admission to the union and had been refused. The Magistrate pointed out that the assault was a deliberate one and sentenced accused to fourteen days' hard labour.