SEQUEL TO STRIKE.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18805, 29 November 1932, Page 8

SEQUEL TO STRIKE.

TWO MEN FINED £lO.

FREEZING WORKERS INTIMIDATED (By T'elegrapti.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Monday. As a sequel to the strike at the Imlay works David Wright and Patrick Joseph Hogan were fined £lO each, in default one month’s imprisonment, on a charge that, with a view to preventing persons in the employ of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company from doing an act which such persons had a legal right to do, they did watch the approach to the freezing works. The information was laid 'under Section 33, sub-Sectlon 6, of the Police Offences Act of 1927. The 'police evidence disclosed that the men were warned a few -days previous to November 25 that they were committing an offence by congregating near the entrance to the works. On November 25, they were In occupation of a vacant section near the works, from which position they could watch non-union labour going to work. The defence raised the point that the men were not doing anything to compel others from doing a lawful act. ~ The magistrate, Mr Salmon, said there were no means whereby the Court could say what was in the minds of the defendants, hut when he found a number of men congregated together watching others going to work he could only conclude that It would have one effect, and he thought their action clearly one of mischief under the statute.