SEDITION CHARGE
Prisoner Petitions Cabinet COMMUNISTIC PURPOSES (Received 24, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. Harry Pollitt, who was arrested on a charge of making seditious statements in a speech to Rhondda Valley hunger marchers, has sent a letter asking the whole of Cabinet to receive a deputation to hear the case against the Unemployment Bill. The Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald refused, saying that the deputation would not benefit the unemployed. He added: "The Communist purposes of these marches is common knowledge. ’'
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 63, 24 February 1934, Page 7
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81SEDITION CHARGE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 63, 24 February 1934, Page 7
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