SENTENCE ON “REDS”
WATERSIDERS’ PROTEST (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. At flic monthly meeting of the Seamen’s Union to-day the following resolution was adopted unanimously: “That this meeting of the branch l of . .the. Federated Seamen’s Union of New Zealand enters an emphatic protest against the sentence of ±l5O line, or three months’ imprisonment passed on four members of the working class who were convicted by Mr. E. Page, S.M., on November 21 at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court for possession of allegedly seditious working class literature. We demand that the sentences be quashed, and affirm the right of the workers to- read what they will regardless of official interference, and call for repeal of all legislation which limits the right and provides the machinery for repressive action against working class organisation.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 3
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132SENTENCE ON “REDS” Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 3
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