The Archive · 1928

Labour Agitator Acquitted

Australian Leader's Story in Sydney, Aug. 27.

"Jock" Garden was acquitted to: day of the charge of wilfully incite ting to murder on which he was arrested on June 13, under the State Crimes Act following a speech relating to the marine cooks' strike in which ko was alleged to have nid: "If seab cooks man vessels our own tactics may change. We may supply Union The scabs won't, 8. They will have to go to the railings occasionally. which ease the men tell no tales.

Garden declared in the dock that the charge was absard. He said it arose out of a joking interview. He had wanted to put the press the teent, because statements in the reas often stopped the settlement of disputes. The cooks' dispute, for! the settlement of which he had worked night and day, was actually settled on the day of hi Reuter.

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