A CONVICTS' UNION.
A convicts' union, the object of which is to afford inmates of Mexican gaols advantages in the way of asserting their rights, has established general offices at Mexico City. The organisation has 14,955 members. who are prisoners in the gaols of twenty-six States and the Republic's island penal colony in the Pacific Ocean. The union has rules and regulations, and is supported by a contribution of about twopence a week from each member. It proposes soon to care for discharged convicts and to get them jobs. All officers of the union are convicts or persons who have served time in prison.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 20 May 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)
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104A CONVICTS' UNION. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 20 May 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)
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