STRIKE OF JUGO-SLAVS.
CLASSED AS ENEMY ALIENS.
(Per,, Press Association). TAUMARUNUI, last night
The Magistrate (Mr. Rawson) was engaged for over eight hours yesterday hearing charges against 34 Jugo-Slav.s for refusing to work on the StratfordMain Trunk railway. Mr. : Selwyn .Mays prosecuted and Mr: Ostler defended. Commissioner" Cull'en said 1800 Jngo-Slavs had registered m the Dominion. Of these, 425 were on national service, and those at Matiere had defied the law and were m rebellion. Mr. Ostler said the men had no definite conditions of piecework offered them. If such were submitted they would return to work to-morrow. The Crown Prosecutor said he would not accept tliis. He said he had to thinkf of other Slavs m the Dominion. It was not a safe policy to give way now. He contended that the conditions were explained to the men. •The Magistrate reserved his decisioh.
Mr\ Ostler said he would advise the men to return to \york if the conditions were properly' explained according' to the regulation. He took up their cause because the new regulations had classed' the men as enemy aliens, which they were not, and ' it was a great injustice to men who were loyal- to the Allies.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14667, 26 July 1918, Page 2
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200STRIKE OF JUGO-SLAVS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14667, 26 July 1918, Page 2
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