INCITING MUTINY
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE PUBLISHER PROSECUTED (Received November 24, noon.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 24. William Arthur Payne, printer and publisher of Truth, was charged in the first Civil Court under the Commonwealth Crimes Act with having, incited members of the warships Australia, Canberra, Albatross, Tattoo, and other ships to mutiny. The secretary of the Naval Board, Mr. Macandie, said the men on the warships had accepted pay cuts loyally. Mr .Macandie, and also the Minister of Defence, Sir George Pearce, and the first naval member, Vice-Admiral Hyde, stated that no ultimatum bad ever been made by the men threatening to strike unless their grievances* were redressed. Payne pleaded not guilty. He said he did not write the article and had no power to stop its publication.
This is the first trial of its kind in Australia
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17945, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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