COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
DENOUNCED BY MR. SEMPLE [PER PBESB ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, March 1. Instructions have been given by Hon. R. Semple, that the social halls in Public Works camps are not to be used for Communist lectures. “These halls have been built for the workers on the jobs, and their wives and children, to use for social intercourse, study, and amusement, and not as incubators of the treacherous doctrine of Communism,” said Mr. Semple, in an interview this morning. "If they arc used for Communist lectures, they will be closed. They were built at the expense of the nation, to benefit those employed on the jobs, and not for the purposes of propaganda by individuals who visit the construction camps to preach sabotage and destruction.” Communist literature, which was described by Mr. Semple as “mental poison,” will not. be allowed in the libraries at the camps. Mi'. Semple said that he did not refer to hooks on revolutionary history, but to leaflets specially prepared, in pamphlet form, for the purpose of stirring up strife. He was not going to have that stuff in libraries where it could be studied by young men, whose minds were not. matured.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 March 1937, Page 5
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