SIDNEY COMMUNISTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 5

SIDNEY COMMUNISTS

RELEASED FROM CUSTODY ' . SYDNEYr Oct. 23. The 19. Communists arrested oil the occasion of the Newton eviction riot of June 18 have been released from custody oy order of the Attorney-General, ' Mr. Lafnaro. The Communists’ were placed on trial recently, but.the jury disagreed. The Crown now announces that, it 5 taking no further proceedings. are also exploiting the general’- uneibploymeht situation and preaching, -class hatred. • - Many of Mr. MacDonald’s -erstwhile friends are conducting a vendetta of hilsrepresentation. the Prime Minister is gaining an increasing .'hold of the country by his courage, sincerity, and unequivocal patrioti9ilt; His prospects ill Seaham are better in 'view tbf the excellent impression mad© by Ida fighting speeches, in which he disclaims Conservative money and repudiates dictation from the Socialist machine, ; asserting liis right that he should be bon* sidered a better servant of Labor 'than those who cast him Out. “It is not the company you keep,”/he said at a huge meetihg yesterday,, “but what you are. In times of yjpeat national stress I will co-operate With anybody who I think is going to.B&Ve the nation; but I have not joined anything put the old Labor Party, and am not going to do so.” : .