TILLAGE DICTATOR.
DISCIPLE OF MOSCOW.
RUIN WROUGHT IN WALES. LONDON. March 3. The application of an agitator's interpretation of Russian doctrines has resulted in the ruin of the once prosperous Welsh mining village of Mardv and the imprisonment of 29 of its inhabitants for unlawful assembly. Evidence was given that the agitator, Arthur Horner, had been a frequent visitor to Russia. He assumed a dictatorship and terrorised officials during the 1921 coal strike, and caused the flooding of a colliery. No less than 2500 men were employed in Mardy before his advent, earning £9 a week. The place is now derelict.
The activities of Horner and his disciples compelled respectable miners to sell houses worth £355. Horner was defeatod at the Parliamentary election, though ho polled 10,000 votes. His disciples included Jesse Sweet, who, after a visit to Moscow, tried to disaffect British troops.
Horner was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment, Sweet and four companions to nine months, and the remaining 23 accused to from 16 days to three months each.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21131, 14 March 1932, Page 9
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