WHAT THE LABOUR QUARREL LEADS TO.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Westport, February 27. At the R.M. Court yesterday two firemen belonging to the s.s. Taieri, named Connolly and Kirke, were oharged by Captain Richardson with assaulting a fireman named James Morris. Kirke and Connolly went on board the vessel early yesterday morning and dragged Morris out of tbe bunk, and kicked him about the head and face. Atorris had a loaded pistol in his bunk. He said he carried the weapon with him because he had been beaten once before and was continually threatened. Morris was a free labourer then, but joined the Union quite recently. Captain Richardson deposed that Alorris was an unusually quiet man. Tho defence was that Morris threatened to shoot Kirke. A second charge of assaulting Morris waß preferred against Kirke. Both prisoners were convicted, and Conolly got fourteen days and Kirke one month. Morris says he was compelled to join the Union on account of tbe persecution he suffered.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 992, 6 March 1891, Page 32
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