THE BAKERS' STRIKE.
BEFORE THE ARBITRATION COURT. •[Pf.r Press Association.] j WELLINGTON, August 24. Cases arising out of the bakers' strike are being heard bj r the Arbitration Court to-day, when Andrew Collins, secretary ot the Wellington Bakers' Industrial Union of Workers, was charg e<l with aiding and abetting a strike. Defendant, in his evidence, «aid that while he was secretary of the Union. i*;o resolutions having regard to the strike were passed in June. He did not do any of the picketing. When the- strike had been decided upon ho told the men that he would stand by them, but he warned them, from iiis experience of strikes in the past, that the moment they interfered with free labourers in any way, except by moral suasion, they would lose public support, and that if they went beyond moral suasion he would leave them at that moment. He never went near the picket and never used riioral suasion. Application is also being made for the enforcement of the award against forty-three bakers.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9322, 24 August 1908, Page 3
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172THE BAKERS' STRIKE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9322, 24 August 1908, Page 3
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