CHARGE OF BESETTING
TWO MEN BEFORE COURT. DECISION RESERVED. (Per United Press Association.) Palmerston North, September 23. John Harvey Blair, restaurant keeper, on four charges, and Albert Lewis, a labourer, on one charge, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court for allegedly besetting relief workers a few days ago. Lengthy evidence was heard, in which the police stated that Blair’s shop contained Soviet literature, and in Lewis’s possession had been found a Communist membership card and badge. Witnesses said that Blair and _ a picket of 25 men visited the relief works at one of which Blair addressed the workers, stating it was not understood that the Unemployment Board’s policy intended to include that married men should also go to camps. Evidence in the charge against Lewis was that he was the possessor of a camera with which he photographed men leaving for relief works. Lewis denied the photographs were for propaganda purposes. The defence was that the charges were laid under the English Act, 1925, under which picketing in a trade dispute was not unlawful. The Magistrate reserved his decision in all cases, bail being renewed.
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Southland Times, Issue 21821, 26 September 1932, Page 7
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184CHARGE OF BESETTING Southland Times, Issue 21821, 26 September 1932, Page 7
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