SEDITIOUS LITERATURE
WELLINGTON PROSECUTION. [I’EK IT.ESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, July 29. Jobll uarvey Blair, James Albert Birchfield. Richard Henry Herbert Richard Bryan, V illiam O’Reilly and Leslie Raymond M’Dowell were charged to-day w lll * nrinting and publishing a book Karl Marx and the Struggle ot the Masses which, it was alleged, expresses seditions intention and advises and cn<.oarages lawlessness and violence, c-mtruiy 'o regulation 4 of the War RcgiikitioriS Act. 1 irthfield -was further charged with obtaining £7/0/9 from the Public Works Department by falsely representing that he was injured by a truck at the Waitaki hydro-electric works. Charles Morris Brooks and the defendant Bryan were charged with having an allegedly seditious book in their possession for sale or distribution. When the police asked for a remand, defendants asked for bail. Webb said that the police had 2500 copies of the book in their possession and he asked for copies to be given to each of the defendants to enable them to prepare their case. An assurance was given by the police that this would be done. A remand was agreed to and bail granted.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1933, Page 7
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