KALGOORLIE MURDER
THE DEATH SENTENCES OPPOSED BY LABOR CIRCLES. Press Association—By .Telegraph—Copyright PERTH, October 15. (Received October 15, at 11.55 a.m.) The decision of the Government to carry out the execution of Treffene and*Coulter has aroused much opposition in Labor circles. A largo meeting of wharf laborers at Fremantle carried resolutions protesting that capital punishment was a relict of barbarism, and opposed .to tiie principles of trade unionism, calling upon organised Labor throughout Australia to register a protest against a tabor Government carrying out a sentence opposed to the accepted tenets of the Labor movement; also asking tho Gove: ament to reconsider its decision.
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Evening Star, Issue 19381, 15 October 1926, Page 8
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104KALGOORLIE MURDER Evening Star, Issue 19381, 15 October 1926, Page 8
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