INCITING TO MUTINY

Southland Times, Issue 21560, 25 November 1931, Page 7

INCITING TO MUTINY

TWO YEARS’ HARD LABOUR. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, November 23. As a sequel to the Daily Worker prosecution for inciting to mutiny, Frank Patterson, aged 26, was convicted at Ihe Old Bailey of inciting to mutiny and was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Patterson fled to Germany when the police inquiries began, but was arrested upon his return.

Following a visit of Scotland Yard officials to the offices of the Communist newspaper, Daily Worker, William Thomas Wilkinson, printer, was charged at Bow street with inciting to mutiny, and was remanded to October 2. The Magistrate icmarked that pritna facie it was a very serious case. He granted bail on Wilkinson undertaking that nothing would meanwhile appear in the Daily Worker with reference to armed forces of the Crown. He was later charged and committed for trial at Bow street with conspiring with others responsible for the Daily Worker, not only to break a section of the Act, but also to incite others to do likewise. Wilkinson was convicted of endeavouring to stir up mutiny, and found not guilty of conspiring with others associated with the Daily Worker. Mr Justice Hawke said: “I am told you are doing this for money. In view of your age —sixty-eight—you will be sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment in the second division.”