LEEDS’ EDITOR IMPRISONED
“ABOMINABLE LIBEL” OF POLICE. OTHER PUBLISHERS FINED £5OO. By Telegraph—Press Awn.—Copyright London, Dec. 13. Commenting that the accused published an abominable libel that the police “■ batoned a man to death in the Castleford unemployed disturbances, and neither withdrew the statement nor apologised, Mr. Justice Goddard sentenced Clarence Mason, editor of the Daily Worker, Leeds, to six months’ imprisonment. The publishers of the Utopia Press , were fined £5OO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1932, Page 4
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70LEEDS’ EDITOR IMPRISONED Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1932, Page 4
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