THE RECENT CASES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12660, 31 January 1910, Page 5

THE RECENT CASES.

BOYCOTTING A LECTURER. (Press Assn. —By Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, January 29. The Pall Mall Gazette .sayjj that the sentences on the strike leaders m New South WJales afford a.-signal illustration pf ...a strictly democratic Government rising to the height of its responsibilities, and doing its duty to the community, Avithout fear or favor. There is ho country, says the Gazette, where the artisan is more faA'bred ■ by the laAV than m the Australian 'Commonwealth,, and it is Avell that tlie* leaders m that labor, paradise' should be taught that the country should come before party and the corpfort of the many before the selfish demands of a single class. .' ...'•''. SYDNEY, January 29. The NcAvcastle Miners' Delegate Board adopted a recommendation of the, advisory committee urging the board to ask the colliery owners to meet it, with a view to the settlement of the strike. .. (Received .January. 31, 9.30 a.m.) . SYDNEY, January 31. Various labor organisations throughout the Comnionwealth have condemned the imprisonment of the strike leaders. /.Mr Lonsdale,, a member of the Assembly, was about to deliver a lecture at Kuril Kurri m aid of a, local institution, Avhen one of the audience called attention <to. the fact that Mr Lonsdale supported a Government Avhich* had. donp all .it, could to brush them,- and seiit their leaders to,gaol. The audience quickly walked out, leaving the chairman and. lecturer alone m the building- V-.-i.