Red Campaign Affects Prison Staff Morale
[SPECIAL TO STAR] WELLINGTON, This Day.—What he describes as “an insidious antiauthoritarian propaganda campaign, inspired by Communists, is hindering the New Zealand prison authorities in recruiting staff, declares Mr B. L. Dallard, Controller-general of Prisons, in his report presented m Parliament today. Mr Dallard alleges that a gioup of extremists has been engaged in an “anarchist effort to impede and
break down the law enforcement machinery.” During the war. years, this campaign was assisted by pacifists, military defaulters and sympathisers who alligned themselves as fellow travellers with the extremists in _ a policy of disparagement and creating discord. • . “It has seriously affected morale and undoubtedly hindered recruitment,” Mr Dallard adds.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 August 1949, Page 4
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