ATTACK ON FREE LABORER.
A FIREMAN SENTENCED. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. John Henry Mathieson, a fireman, aged 21, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for striking a free worker at Lyttelton on Jan. 27. lie pleaded guilty. The police said the men were working on the Walling. Mathieson came aboard drunk and struck complainant' on the back of the head and kicked him as lie lay unconscious. In the melee Mathieson was roughly handled. The Magistrate, Mr. Wilson, said that free men had as much right to work as unionists, and had served the employers and the .community at a time when their service was needed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 3
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108ATTACK ON FREE LABORER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 3
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