GONE TO SYDNEY

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 8, 9 January 1920, Page 7

GONE TO SYDNEY

MOSES BARITZ ON MOERAKI,

The Marxian lecturer, Moses Baritz, who, as .stated yesterday, was ordered to lean^e the country under the provisions of the Undesirable Immigrants Restriction Act, was a passenger by the Moeraki for Sydney last, night. At a meeting of the Wellington branch of the Social Democratic Party held last night the following motion was carried :—"That the Wellington branch of the Social Democratic Party emphatically protests against the deportation undei*. the Undesirable Immigrants Act of Mr. Moses Baritz, lecturer for the Marxian Society. While not endorsing the views of Mr. Baritz on political and social questions, the branch cwvsiders his condemnation and deportation without the semblance of a trial to be arbitrary and unjust, and, as far as New Zealand is concerned, to bo an unprecedented example of Kaiserism and Tsarisui. The branch calls the attention of the working class to the'grave danger to free speech and liberty contained in the vicious legislation of last session, and the tyrannical use that can be made of the powers conferred on the Attor-ney-General by the Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act, which the Parliamentary Labour Party fought so strongly." A telegram of protest against the deportation of Mr. Baritz was also sent to the Attorney-General by Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P.*