COMMUNIST SPEAKER ADDRESSED MEN AT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Commenting on the fact that the national organiser of the Communist Party, Mr Harry M. Smith, addressed workers at the Hillside workshops yesterday in defiance of an official ban, the general manager of railways, Mr F. W. Aickin, said today that he understood that about 100 men w'ere addressed and that Mr Smith spoke for 10 minutes. Mr Aickin refused to comment when asked if any action would be taken by his department over the incident. He also refused to state whether or not there was a general ban on Communist speakers at railway undertakings. The ban on speakers was imposed because of the present international situation. A similar ban was placed on the president of the Queensland Communist Party, Mr Claude Jones, who was to have spoken to men at the Hutt Valley workshops during his recent visit to the Dominion. On that occasion the visitor addressed some of the men outside the workshop gates.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1948, Page 8
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