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RECENT POLICE RAID. LABOUR ALLIANCE PROTEST'A recent search by the police in a worker's home for literature forbidden in the Dominion has given rise to a resolution of protest from the Auckland district council of the Alliance of Labour. The raid is stated to have been made on the home of the secretary of an organisation distinct from the Labour Party, and the resolution protests also against the seizing of books containing the records "of an organisation.
The chief ground of protest against the seizure of banned literature, as expressed by Mr. J. Purtell, president of the council of the Alliance of Labour, is that the Government will not supply any list of the publications to which objection is taken. It is possible for a person to havo forbidden books in his possession without knowing they are forbidden, but even so, it is understood ho is liable to prosecution. Members of the Labour Party have brought this matter up in Parliament, Mr. Purtell says, but the Government has declined to do anything to make known what are the publications it desires to prohibit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20028, 18 August 1928, Page 12
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