TRAMWAY STRIKE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 May 1932, Page 6

TRAMWAY STRIKE

CASES IN COURT. ACCUSED SENT TO GAOL. ’ CHRISTCHURCH, Monday.^ As a result of recent strike disturbances, a number of men appeared in Court to-day. For Avaiting and besetting, five men AA'ere sentenced to throe months’ hard labour. All Avere labourers arrested in Hagley Park on Saturday. In convicting another man for oqstrueting tho police, the Magistrate, Mr Mosley, said:—“lt is poor, insignificant little branches of the humankind, whose mentality is not very profound, who move a crowd to disorder. It is men like this a\lio cause all the trouble. There are only tivo hundred of them. The trouble has got to be stopped.” The accused, Robert John Lee, aged 35, 'a labourer, was sentenced to a month’s hard labour. Three men Avere charged with using violence against John .Smith to compel him from doing an act Avhich lie had a right to do. They were Ernest 'George Ellis, aged 43, trannvay motorman; George Albert KnoA\des, aged 36, tramAA r ay conductor; Colin Trevor Henry Dixon, aged 30, tramway motorman. The police said that the accused knocked a loyal employee off his bicycle on Friday and kicked him. Accused Avere remanded till to-morroAv, and Avere alloAved bail in the sum of £250 and tAvo sureties of £250, in each case.—(P.A.)