WELLINGTON “COMRADES”
OBSTRUCTION CHARGES.
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WELLINGTON, September 26. Communists who have been speaking in the open air, after havipg been refused permission, have been served with summonses, and they "Will appear in the Magistrate's Court on Friday 6ext. They will be charged with obstructing traffic. “The eight Comrades who spoke here last Friday night, have been served with these,” said a speaker, at the Communist meeting in Garratt Street to-night, waving a blue paper. “They.are getting to be quite a familiar sight to the members of the Communist Party.”
Referring to the charge of “obstructing traffic,” a speaker said that it was just a start. It did not matter whether they, “went in” or not. ’lf they “went in” others would come forward, and they would have relays to maintain a continuous series of meetings. * He urged those present to come to the Court on Friday morning, and to demonstrate and show the capitalist class that the workers were tired of the conditions of their system. At the conclusion of to-night’s meeting the police again took the speakers’ names.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1930, Page 12
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