INTIMIDATING MINERS.
WIVES BOUND OVER. At Clay Gross, Derbyshire, Percy Wall, of South Normanton, was fined £lO and costs, or, three months imprisonment, for intimidating miners who were at work; and Alfred Peach, Herbert Flavoll, of Bilston, and Joseph Plant, of Clay Cross, were each fined 50s and costs, or one month, on similar charges. Ten miners' wives who pleaded guilty to intimidation were bound over for six months. At the same court Maurice Clement Pike, an electrical engineer, described as a Communist, was fined £2l and hound over for six months on a charge of having made speeches lllr.cly to cause disaffection among the civil population. It was slated that Pike, talking to some miners at Clay Cross, said: "If you cannot fetch them out by fair means fetch them out by foul means."
A similar charge against Tarina Praise Sinha, an Indian, also said to be a Communist, who gave his address as Great George Street, Westminster, was adjourned for a fortnight.
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16946, 6 November 1926, Page 3
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