Sixteen Chinese members of the crew of the str. City of Victor! who organized a passive strike ex: tending over four days, were con-viered in the police court here and sentenced to serve terms of six weeks each in Okalla prison. The sentences were received with smiles by the accused men. Witnesses declared that on August 17 the acused men refused to work and delayed that they wanted to go back to China. Counsel for the ship own. ers, whose vessel was ready to sail for Boston, Mass., with a cargo of lumber, pointed out that the Chinese knew that they could go to gaol at Canada's expense and then be deported to their homes in China at the expense of the company which hired them. No reason was given by the men for their conduct as ther counsel did not put them in the witness box in their own defence,
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