GARDEN ACQUITTED
INCITEMENT TO MURDER CHARGE SEQUEL TO COOKS’ STRIKE (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) SYDNEY, Monday. The trial, took place to-day of Jock Garden, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, on three charges of soliciting, encouraging and endeavouring to persuade persons to commit murder on the high seas. Accused pleaded not guilty. In a statement from the dock he said the charges were too absurd for words. After a short deliberation the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on all the charges, and accused was discharged.
Garden was originally charged at the instance of the . State Government, on four counts, with inciting to murder. It was alleged that he used the following words in the course of comment on the marine cooks’ dispute:— “We may supply union men for ships and it may mean that non-union cooks who are not good sailors will become sick and lose their balance when they go to the side of a ship. The sea is deep and, dead men tell no tales.”
Accused was also charged at the instance of thn Federal Government with intimidation and with inciting men to strike or to refuse employment. Garden was committed for trial on June 23.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 9
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