“ABOMINABLE LIBEL”
Editor Sent to Prison London, Dec. 13. Commenting on the fact that, having published an abominable libel to the effect that the police batoned a man to death in the Castleford unemployed disturbances, he neither withdrew it nor apologised, Mr. Justice Goddard sentenced Clarence Mason, editor of the “Daily Worker” at Leeds, to six months’ imprisonment. The publishers of the "Utopia Press” were fined £5OO.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 70, 15 December 1932, Page 9
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