WITHDRAWN SOUTH AFRICA'S PEACE BILL
RIOTOUS ASSEMBLIES LAW- TO j BE AMENDED. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) j (Received March 31, 8.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 30th March. The Government has withdrawn the Peace Preservation Bill, substituting an amendment of the law dealing with riotous assemblies. [The Bill provided for the maintenance of public safety in times of actual or apprehended disturbance. It could empower the police to arrest without warrant persons suspected of treason or of inciting thereto, protected workmen from intimidation, prohibited picketing, penalised for breach of contract involving danger to the publiq by persons in public utility services, and empowered the Government to prohibit or disperse riotous gatherings, and to remove persons convicted of sedition or of incitement thereto unless born in South Africa. The offences defined by the Bill included intimidation or annoyance to induce persons to join a union, the use of opprobrious epithets, and black-listing. A maximum penalty of £200 or two years' imprisonment is imposed.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1914, Page 7
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