BRITISH TRAITOR
HEIL AND GOOSESTEP THREE MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT WORKMATES INFURIATED (United Press Assn. —Eiec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 25 An electrician, Oswald Skidmore, aged 48, who goose-steppecl through a Sheffield factory giving the Nazi i salute, has been sentenced to three | months’ gaol. He was found guilty of each of three charges of making and publishing statements likely to cause alarm and despondency. It was stated in evidence that Skilmore was a shop steward at the works, in which 580 men are engaged on Government contracts. He j went about the works giving the t Nazi salute and goose-stepping, and I declared that one German, fully j equipped, was worth five English- ! men: and that Russia and Japan were j better countries than England. | "Britain can’t win this war,’ lie declared. 1 , The prosecutor said that the worki men were so infuriated that they i threatened Skidmore.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21356, 26 February 1941, Page 5
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