EDITOR GAOLED.
LIBEL ON POLICE. Received December 14, 9.55 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 13. Commenting that accused published an abominable libel that the police batoned a man to death in the Castleford unemployed disturbances, and neither withdrew the statement nor apologised, Mr Justice Goddard sentenced Clarence Mason, editor of the Daily Worker, of Leeds, to six months’ imprisonment. The publishers, the Utopia Press, were fined £SOO.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 10
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65EDITOR GAOLED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 14, 14 December 1932, Page 10
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