SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 May 1932, Page 5

SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET

POSSESSOR SENT TO GAOL

CHRISTCHURCH COMMUNIST.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 24. Twelve months’ imprisonment, with hard labour was the sentence imposed by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., on Charles Francis Riley, aged 38, a Communist who pleaded guilty to having in his possession for distribution a booklet entitled “Strikes, Strategy and Tactics,” which encourages and advises lawlessness and expresses seditious intention. “Since you were before the Court before.” said the Magistrat. “I have taken the trouble to read “Strike Strategy and Tactics” from end to end. It is full of matter written with no other object than to incite certain persons to strike, to resist law and. order and generally to cause turmoil in our little country. There is one. significant passage near the end which says that the Red International of Labour Unions must be informed of all conflicts in this country.

“You have been convicted before.” added the magistrate, “and despite the fact that the Court has treated you with great leniency you have consistently ignored the strong sentiment for law and order in this country. The Court has only one thing to do if you persist in it —twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour.”