MEN SENT FOR TRIAL
STRIKE LEADERS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY SEVEN UNION OFFICIALS SYDNEY, Tuesday. The seven union officials who are charged with conspiracy to molest and intimidate free labourers in the timber industry were today committed for trial. The defendants are: J. S. Garden, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council; J. Kavanagh, chairman of the Disputes Committee; J. Culbert, M.L.C., secretary of the Timber Workers’ Union; C. Reeves and M. P. Ryan, members of the Disputes Committee: E. W. Paten and W. Terry, timber workers’ organisers. Kavanagh was further charged with having an unlicensed revolver. The conspiracy charges set out that accused had conspired with other persons unknown, (1) to prevent, by violence or threats, timber workers from following their lawful occupations; (2) to molest and intimidate the workmen of George Hudson, Ltd., of Glebe, and so force them to leave their employment, to the detriment of their employers; (3) to riotously assemble persons to assault the workmen at Hudson’s. The accused all denied the allegations. Garden asserted that on no occasion had he uttered the vile adjectives attributed to him in the evidence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 9
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185MEN SENT FOR TRIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 9
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