A CONVICTS’ UNION.
14.000 .MEMBERS IN MEXICO.
A convicts’ union, the object of which to afford inmates of Mexican gaols wantages in the way of asserting their
rights, has established general offices here. The organisation has 14,955 members who are prisoners in the gaols of twenty-six States and the Republic’s island penal colony in the Pacific Ocean.
The union has rules and regulations, and is supported by a contribution of about two-pence a week from each member. It proposes soon to care for discharged convicts and to get them jobs. All officers of the union are convicts or persons who have served time in prison.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19484, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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105A CONVICTS’ UNION. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19484, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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