RAID ON SYDNEY COMMUNISTS
Search Of Seized Documents (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 19. Legal officers of the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s Department have been working oyer the week-end examining the piles of documents seized in the raids on Communist premises in Sydney on Friday. It is expected that by tomorrow they will be able to advise the AttorneyGeneral, Senator J. A. Spicer, whether prosecutions should be launched. Federal Ministers believe that an article entitled “The ‘Democratic’ Monarchy” in the June issue of the Communist review to be seditious. The main reason for Friday’s raids was to establish the identity of the author and ultimate responsibility for the publication. The raiding officers were also told to watch for information on Communist plans for industrial disturbances, including nation-wide rolling strikes of a political rather than an industrial nature, and for a Communist campaign to discredit the Arbitration Court’s control of secret trade union ballots.
The Canberra correspondent of the ‘‘Sunday Telegraph” says that the Government has made no secret of the fact that it has been seeking this kind of evidence in a legal effort to smash the Communist Party.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27096, 20 July 1953, Page 10
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