NEW SOUTH WALES MINES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 11

NEW SOUTH WALES MINES.

NO FEDERAL INTERVENTION GERMAN SENT TO PRISON.

INCITEMENT TO MURDER.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright,

(Received January 24, 9.15 SYDNEY. Jan. 24

The Prime Minister, Mr. J. H. Scullin, announces the Federal Government's refusal to carry out the decision of the Labour Conference. He said the suggestion that the Government should disarm the New South Wales police on the coalfields would not receive a moment's consideration, and added that if, in defiance of the Constitution, the forces of the Commonwealth were arrayed against the State police a clash would be unavoidable and civil war would be precipitated. Eleven men who were charged, with attempting to pull up the Rothbury colliery railway line during the riols on December 16 wore each fined £lO, or in default two months' imprisonment. Joseph Shelley, described as a German Communist, was to-day sentenced to five months' imprisonment on a charge of inciting the miners to murder the police. Evidence was given in the. Maitland Court that accused addressed a large gathering of miners, and urged them to shoot down the police and the Rothbury free labourers at the Rothbury mine. A message from Canberra says the Prime Minister has decided to appeal to all parties in the coalmines dispute to set an example of obedience to the law, by obeying Mr, Justice. Beeby's last order to reopen the coalmines at the rates ruling before the present stoppage.