OPEN AIR MEETING.
WELLINGTON COMMUNISTS. CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC. . WELLINGTON, September 26. Communists who have been speaking in the open air after having been refused permission have been served with summonses. and will appear in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday next. They will be charged with obstructing the traffic. “ The eight comrades who spoke hero last Friday night have been served with these,” said a speaker at the Communist meeting in Garrett street to-night, waving a blue paper. “ They are becoming quite a familiar sight to members of the Communist Party.”
Referring to the charge of “ obstructing the traffic ” the speaker said that it was just a start. It did not matter whether they “ went in ” or not. If they “ went in ” others would come forward and they would have relays to maintain a continuous series of meetings. He urged those present to come to court on Friday morning and to demonstrate and show the capitalistic class that the workers were tired of the conditions of their system.
At the conclusion of to-night’s meeting the police again took the speakers’ names,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 31
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