NOT A STRIKE
SHEARERS’ REFUSAL CHARGES DISMISSED. [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 20. Charges against, three shearers (Cecil Chisholm, A. Elliott, and T. Kerr) of being parties to a strike were heard by Mr H. P. Lawrv, S.M., at Cheviot. Charles Mowatt, a sheepfarmer, gave evidence that the men were engaged by him for shearing, but after their arrival they refused to work as he would not pay them 30s per 100. Mr Hunter, for the defendants, submitted that the matter had never gone beyond the stage of negotiations, and there had been no definite contract. The Magistrate dismissed the charges, ruling that there was some doubt about the matter. The statute was penal and had to be strictly enforced.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 6
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120NOT A STRIKE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 6
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