LABOUR PROTEST
SILENCING OF RADIO ACTION IN AUSTRALIA COMPLAINT AT STATION ‘ ‘ST IFLING FR E E SI ’EEC 11.’ ’ (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 22, 2.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 22.
Notice of only one minute was given the radio station 2KY that it was to be cut off the air and the station had no opportunity to inform its listeners.
Mr. R. King, M.L.C., the secretary of the 2KY’ committee, said that the Postmaster-General, Mr. A. Cameron, had complained that the 2KY news commentator, Mr. J. Merely, had attacked individuals. Mr. King added that Mr. Cameron was “trying to stifle free speech over the air.”
About 20 minutes after the station was cut out the chief radio inspector, Mr. W. T. Crawford, arrived at the transmitting station, at Frenchs Forest, on the northern side of the harbour. He was accompanied by a policeman armed with a warrant to enter the station. The transmitter was closed.
The Australian Labour Party decided last night to call upon all branches ancl the workers generally to carry motions of protest. The Prime Ministei, Mr. J. A. Lyons, who was in Devonport last night, made telephone contact with Mr. Cameron at Ararat and arranged for Mr. Cameron to get in touch with the controllers of the station to-day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 7
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