CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
LABOUR DEPUTATION TO WAIT ON MINISTER.
The question of treatment of conscientious objectors was before the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party at its concluding sessions yesterday. The following remit was endorsed, and it was decided' that a deputation wait upon the Minister of Defence to protest against the general treatment of conscientious objectors :—(a) That conference deputatiopise Cabinet to protest against the arbitrary and useless persecution of the C.O.s by the infliction of more than one sentence for same offence, (b) That conference alspjjemand a public enquiry he made into the_ alleged illtreatment of deported 1 conscientious objectors, and demand the return of the men to give the necessary evidence. A resolution from the Brooklyn branch referring to the question was that, in view of the fact of the brutal persecution of the fourteen deported conscientious objectors, this conference calls upon the Government —(a) Immediately to return these men; (i) to set up a public commission to enquire into the treatment meted out to them; (c) to release them, they having .been sufficiently punished for breaking a class-made law. Also, this conference views with alarm the flouting of British justice in re-sen-tencing the C.O.s to'a second and third term of imprisonment for the same offence.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 10, 11 July 1918, Page 8
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210CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 10, 11 July 1918, Page 8
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