LIBEL AGAINST POLICE
LEEDS EDITOR SENTENCED ARTICLE IN ‘ DAILY WORKER.’ Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 13. (Received December 14, at 10 a.m.) Commenting that accused published an abominable libel that the police batoned a man to death in the Castleford unemployed disturbances, and neither withdrew the statement nor apologised, Mr Justice Goddard sentenced Clarence Mason, editor of the ‘ Daily Worker,’ Leeds, to six months’ imprisonment. The publishers of the ‘ Utopia Press ’ were fined £SOO.
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Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 9
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75LIBEL AGAINST POLICE Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 9
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