DANGEROUS AGITATOR

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 April 1919, Page 7

DANGEROUS AGITATOR

IMPRISONED FOR DISTRIBUTING

LITERATURE.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

WELLINGTON, April 8. William Parker was charged before Mr Frazer, S.M. ; to-day, with having in liis- possession for distribution, documents headed "Labor Unrest and the Look-out," which documents advocated lawlessness, contrary to the war regulations. One leaflet advocated a strike on works. Chief Detective Boddam stated that a large number of leaflets had been distributed in Wellington, and some had got as far as Christchureh. The chief detective added that Parker admitted he "had had the leaflets printed to his order, and that he denied nothing. In a long speech from the dock, accused spoke of the parasites v.hp fed on the workers, and h e showed no respect for the Court. As he had been convicted in 1913 for seditious utterances, Mr Frazer sentenced him to twelve months hard labor.