SEAMEN'S SECRETARY.
IMPRISONMENT INQUIRY. EVIDENCE OF COMMUNISM. SYDNEY, Sept. 17. At tho inquiry instituted by the Federal Government to ascertain whether there had been a miscarriage of justice resulting in the imprisonment of Jacob Johnson, former secretary of the Seamen's Union, for inciting a strike in 1929, evidence was given that tho British Seamen's Union had set aside £IO,OOO to purge the Australian union of its Communist elements, led by Johnson. Frederick Mulligan, a clerk of the Seamen's Union in Sydney, gave evidence that R. Bell came from Vancouver with the information that the British union had earmarked £IO,OOO, of which £3600 had already been advanced to Tom Walsh, a former secretary of the Australian union. Bell consistently urged that an effort should be made to get Johnson out of the union. One course adopted was the formation of a bogus union, the registration of which had been refused.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20981, 18 September 1931, Page 9
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149SEAMEN'S SECRETARY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20981, 18 September 1931, Page 9
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