RELEASE URGED
Hunger-marchers’ Leaders LONDON DEMONSTRATION London, Dec. 21. The General Council of the Trades Union Congress lias written to the Prime Minister,, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, protesting against the imprisonment of Tom Mann and Enhrys Llewellyn in connection with the recent hun-ger-marchers’ demonstration in London, describing the case as a travesty of justice and an instance of political persecution; Tlie men, it says, were punished under obsolete statutes framed over a century ago for the purpose of suppression of political opinions in totally different circumstances from those of to-day. The council, while condemning attempts to incite the unemployed to violence, declared that, such sentences were likely to imperil public peace, and urges Immediate release.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 77, 23 December 1932, Page 11
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114RELEASE URGED Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 77, 23 December 1932, Page 11
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