WORKERS AND MUNITIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16415, 21 June 1915, Page 5

WORKERS AND MUNITIONS

PRISONERS FOUND GUILTY. IMPRISONMENT AND A FINE. LONDON, June 18. In the Glasgow iron ore case a majority of the jury found the two prisoners guilty, with a recommendation to leniency owing to the unprecedented circumstances and the violent derangement of business owing to the war. The accused were each senfWced to six months' imprisonment, and fined £2000 apiece. The correct name of one of the prisoners is Hetherington, not Irvingdale, as first stated. The name of the other is Wilson. They were partners in the firm of Jacks and Co., and sold large shipments of iron to Kruppe. THE SUMMING UP. LONDON, June 18. Lord Strathclyde, summing up in the Glasgow iron ore case, said nothing short of a Royal license would entitle a Britisher to attempt to supply goods to the people of Germany. The firm of Jacks and Co., until August 10, never intended that the ore should go to Germany; then they found that through their German house they could effect an arrangement with their consumers. Their action resulted in the Germans securing iron ore. COTTON TRADE DISPUTE. OPERATIVES ACCEPT ARBITRATION. LONDON, June 18. The cotton operatives have' accepted arbitration, without any stoppage of the mills. MR LLOYD GEORGE'S POWER. THE OFFICIAITdEFINITION. LONDON, June 19. (Reoeived June 20, at 3.50 p.m.) Mr Lloyd George's power has been officially defined as to organicc the sources of supply and labour; the available supply of munitions, the supply of which will be wholly or partly undertaken by transfer to him as may ba, agreed upon with the department or authority concerned; the matter of general ordnance, or those oonnected with Woolwich and other Govern- ; ment arsenals or small-arms factories.