BARCELONA'S FIGHT
' "RED" PRESS CENSORSHIP. The fight against syndicalism at Barcelona has continued since .March 2i (states (ho Barcelona correspondent of the London "Times," writing on April (i), and every day the situation takes on new aspects. But the setback suffered by the workers' organisations, which are directed by secret committees and probably by foreign agents, grows more and more evident. The military authorities, with land and naval forces and the Civn Guard, and aided by volunteer ciifzene, are endeavouring to destroy, tho.secret committees. Several anarchists and syndicalist leaders and also somo Germans have been arrested. The newspapers arc not appearing, as tho editors demand that the printers must renounce the ltcd Censorship—that is to say, must ;;ive vp tho right whicJv they claim to suppress paragraphs in the newspapers prejudicial to the syndicalists. The newspnpers were at one limo ready to reappear, hut the printers of a certain newspaper refused to eel. up mi article by the editor, in which ho explained tho decision of the Press no longer to submit to the Red Censorship; and as the Press had decided to act in unison no otiier newspaper was. published.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 233, 26 June 1919, Page 8
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191BARCELONA'S FIGHT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 233, 26 June 1919, Page 8
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