CENSORSHIP.
PROTEST AGAINST CONTINUANCE. [THE PKESB Special Service.] DUNEDIN, September 2. The question whether the censorship on certain classes of literature that was imposed largely as a war measure should not be discontinued is raised by a resolution passed at the last meeting of the Otago Labour Representation Committee. The resolution reads as follows: "That this meeting of the Otago Labour Representation Committee protests against the action of the State Department in its censorship and banning of all forms of working class literature, and demands the removal of the ban so that workers may read what they wish and not what the Government officials think they should." It was pointed out by members of the committee that this literature circulated freely in Great Britain, and some of it appeared on the tables of the public libraries in the Dominion, and yet the law prohibited anyone from selling it. This the committee felt could not be justified on any grounds whatever.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19714, 3 September 1929, Page 8
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