“AN ABOMINABLE LIBEL”
LEEDS EDITOR SENTENCED SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. LONDON, December 13. Commenting that accused published an abominable libel that the police batoned a man to death in the Castlcferd unemployed disturbances, and neither withdrew the statement nor apologised, Mr Justice Goddard sentenced Clarence Mason, editor of the Daily Worker, Leeds, to six months’ imprisonment. The publishers of the Utopia Press were fined £SOO.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 9
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