HE CLAIMED 10d.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17581, 10 December 1928, Page 9

HE CLAIMED 10d.

FOR PIECE OF STEAK. BLACK-EYE CURE. It took Air Camphln, S.M., more than two hours at Burwood Court to decide how William Bright, an organiser .fot- the Bricklayers’ Union, received a black eye at Summer Hill on November 8, says a Sydney paper. Bright blamed Thomas Tweenie, who was charged with assault, and claimed lOd from him, being the cost of the piece of raw steak for his. eye. Jlc told the magistrate that he wentTo a .job in Prospect Road, Summer Hill, on November 8, saw Tweenie, and told him that lie had short-paid an employee named Sainsbury. • Defendant replied, according lo Bright: “The Bricklayers’ Union is not a registered union, and the man is not a bricklayer.” Witness said,

“lie has been working as a bricklayer at Hie Federal Territory for more than two years. It is only 0s -id, and that is not worth any trouble. Why not pay me and have done with it?"

Tweonie grabbed his left shoulder and said, “This is my land, my job, and my property. Get' off.” As he went to walk off the job, defendant grabbed him again and punched him on the eye. He had a black eye for a fortnight as the result, and was unable to see out of it for four days. He purchased a piece of raw steak, and placed! it on his eye lo take away the swelling and the blackness. The day following the assault he went lo the job with another organiser, Mr J. Griffiths, but defendant told both of them lo get off the job. Tweonie said that he was a bricklayer and foreman. Bright came lo his job at Summer Kill and demanded Gs -id, said to have been underpaid lo another bricklayer. Wilness I old him he had a proper method of obtaining the money, ir if were underpaid, and ordered him off the job. He also put his hands around his waist to help him off. lie had not punched Bright on the eye. Complainant must have obtained the black eye by bumping witness’ shoulder. Mr Camphin lined Tweonie £3, with costs, totalling £7 2s Bd.