RELEASE URGED
IMPRISONMENT OF UNEMPLOYED LEADERS ACTION BY TRADES UNION CONGRESS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 21. (Received December 22, at noon.) The General Council of the Trades Union Congress has written to Mr Ramsay MacDonald protesting against the imprisonment of Mr Tom Mann and Mr Llewellyn, describing the case as a travesty of justice and political persecution. They were punished under obsolete statutes framed over a century ago for the purpose of suppression of political opinions in totally different circumstances from to-day’s. The council, while condemning attempts to incite unemployed violence, declared that such sentences were likely to imperil the public peace, and urged immediate release.
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Evening Star, Issue 21292, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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107RELEASE URGED Evening Star, Issue 21292, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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