“BREAK THE LAW.”
Aim’ UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATION. I SPEAKER GETS A AIONTH. WELLINGTON, July 21. ' At the Alagistra'.c’s Court to-day. i V\ m. Parker one of the speakers at an | “ unemployed ” meeting in Post Office ! Square on July sth, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of inci'.ing violence by using the following or similar words: —“They tell us we must not break the law, but .as long as the law remains as it is, I say break it!” Parker, who pleaded guilty, was fined for a breach of the peace during the 1913 strike, and was ordered to find sureties or go to gaol for six months for inciting to assault, the police. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by the Supreme Court for wilful damage, in January 1917, lie’ was sent to gaol for 12 months for seditions utterances, and in April, 1919 to a similar term for publishing seditious matter. (Wm. Parker is an Anarchist.)
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Grey River Argus, 22 July 1922, Page 7
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