SEDITIOUS LITERATURE.
DISTRIBUTED AMONG NAVAL MEN. COMMUNISTS AT WORK. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, LONDON, March 26. Communists are again trying to capture the Dritish Navy. They recently succeeded in distributing large quantities of seditious literature both a ship o tifl ennrP The “Daily Mail” says the Communists’ object is to influence delegates at the lower deck welfare comerence, which meets at Chatham in April, ana to induce them to make extravagant demands on the Admiralty. It is suggested, for instance, that special pay should be claimed for ceremonial parades. One pamphlet, according to the “Daily News,” idealises naval conditions * which may exist under a Communist regime. Another urges the formation of naval trades unions.
The police and naval authorities are taking action to prevent lurther dissemination of such pamphlets.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 March 1928, Page 5
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