Crime, Protest and the Use of the Criminal Law in Wellington During the General Strike Of1913
Sedition, Violence, Theft and Disorder: Crime, Protest and the Use of the Criminal Law in Wellington during the General Strike of1913 Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History by Donald Anderson University of Canterbury February 2001 For my parents, Mavis and Alex Anderson and for Elaine Griffin, Roger Griffin, Helen Griffin, Saffy Griffin and Pearl Griffin My thanks also to Miles Fairburn, Deidra Sullivan, Tanya Price, Douglas Kammen, Elliott Campbell, Diana McCurdy, Julie Keenan, Jonathan Griffin, Graeme Dunstall, Geoff Vincent, Peter Boston, Peter Atwell and Ann McCarthy 22 AUG Z001 Contents Page Abstract p.iii List of Tables p.IV Chapter 1 - Introduction p.1 Chapter 2 - Methodology pAO Chapter 3 - Crime as Protest during Industrial Disputes - International Perspectives p.50 Chapter 4 - The Use of the Criminal Law during Industrial Disputes - International Perspectives p.86 Chapter 5 - Crime as Protest and the 1913 General Strike in Wellington p.143 Chapter 6 - Intensified Efforts to Control Disorder or the Repressive Use of the Criminal Law?: Criminal Prosecutions, Verdicts, Sentences and the 1913 General Strike in Wellington p.218 Conclusion p.289 Bibliography p.300 List of Appendices p.319 Appendix 1 to Appendix 13 iii Abstract This thesis investigates the connection between industrial protest and the crime committed in Wellington during the 1913 General Strike. The possibility that the ways in which the criminal law was implemented changed in response to the strike has also been examined. The crimes focused upon include violence, theft, anti-state actions, seditious utterances, verbal abuse, threatening behaviour and desertion.
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