SLEEP BEFORE WORK
WAR WORKERS’ TRICK. St. Louis (U.S.A.), May 14. Four war proauction workers laced charges oL saDotage to-day because they liked forty winks after a big mgnt. Ihe prosecuting attorney said the men's technique was to throw a stone or metal into their machine, causing it to break down. The men woula then sleep for a couple of hours while repair crews lixed tne machinery. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said in San Francisco that disgruntled employees and Axis sympatnisers acting on their own initiative, and not enemyagents, were responsible for 198 sabotage cases since January, 1940. Mr. Hoover said: “There has been a great deal of espionage, but the removal of the Japanese from the west coast has effected a greater degree of security.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 118, 22 May 1942, Page 6
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