BESETTING ALLEGED
RELIEF WORKS INCIDENTS COURT RESERVES DECISION [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] - PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday Charged with besotting relief workers a few days ago, John Harvey Blair, rostaurantkeeper, and Albert Lewis, labourer, appeared in tho Magistrate's Court to-day. There wero four charges against Blair and ono against Lewis. Lengthy evidence was heard in which tho police stated that Blair's shop contained Soviet literature. They also stated that in Lewis' possession had been found a Communist membership card and badge. Witnesses said that Blair and a picket of 25 men visited relief works, at ono of which Blair addressed tho workers, stating that it was not understood that the Unemployment Board's policy intended to include that married men should also go to camps. Evidence in the chargo against Lewis stated that he was tho possessor of a camera with which he photographed men 'leaving for relief works. Lewis denied that the photographs were for propaganda purposes. Tho defence was that the charges wero laid under tho English Act, of 1825, under which picketing in a trade dispute was not unlawful.
The magistrate reserved his decision In both cases bail was renewed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 12
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