LABOUR PROTESTS
DEATH SENTENCE ON TREFFENE AND COULTER. “A- RELIC (5f BARBARISM.’’ Perth, October 15. The decision of the Government to carry out the execution of Treffene and Coulter (found guilty of the murder of two detectives at Boulder) has aroused much opposition in Labour circles. A large meeting of wharf labourers at Fremantle carried resolutions protesting that capital punishment was a relic of barbarism and was opposed to the principles of trades unionism, and calling upon organised Labour throughout Australia to register a protest against a Labour Government carrying out a sentence which was opposed to the accepted tenets of the Labour movement, and also asking the Government to reconsider the decision. —A. & N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20002, 16 October 1926, Page 7
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115LABOUR PROTESTS Southland Times, Issue 20002, 16 October 1926, Page 7
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