REFUSAL TO WORK
GERMAN STRIKER GAOLED PENALTY-UNDER NEW LAW , BERLIN, Sept. 12 For refusing to work at "a task of importance to the State," a workman at Magdeburg was sentenced to six months in gaol. He had been ordered by the .local labour office to work on an important building in another locality. After a few clays he walked out without permission. Under a law promulgated in June, penalties of five years' imprisonment and an unlimited fine may lac imposed 011 citizens who refuse to work in the interests of the State.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 16
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