INCITING TO MUTINY
—. — THE 1 DAILY WORKER ’ CASE PUBLISHER SENTENCED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 19. (Received January 2(J, at 12.10 p.m.) In a further ‘ Daily Worker ’ prosecution, Frank Priestley, aged thirtylive, publisher, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on two charges of incitement to mutiny.
| Following a visit of Scotland Yard officials on September 26 to the offices of the Communist newspaper, ‘ Daily Worker,’ William Thomas Wilkinson, printer, was charged at Bow street with inciting to mutiny, and was remanded to October 2. The magistrate remarked that prima facie it was a very serious case. Wilkinson was committed for trial, and was later sentenced to a term of hard labour. Sir Percival Clarke, who conducted the prosecution, ouoted from the * Daily Worker’: “Build up a united front of workers, soldiers, sailors, and members of the Air Force.” The ‘ Daily Worker’ added: “Now, reader, what about handing this copy to a soldier, sailor, or airman?” Sir Percival Clarke contended that that was not only incitement to His Majesty’s forces to mutiny, but incitement to others to act similarly.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 9
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178INCITING TO MUTINY Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 9
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