TROTSKYISTS JAILED
Furthered Tyneside Strike
LONDON, June 19. Three of the four Trotskyites who were barged under the Trade Disputes and Trades Unions Act.in connexion with the Tyneside apprentices strike m March against the Bevin.pit ballot scheme were sentenced to imprisonment. Rawling Tearse, 2a, secretary of the Militant Workers’ Federation, whom the police described as a political Lambert Heaton Lee, 32, a South African, and Tyneside organizer of the Kevoldtionary Communist were foimd guilty on two charges of furthering the strike, and were sentenced to 12 months imprisonment on each charge, the sen fences to be concurrent. James Ritchie Hasten, national secretary and organizer of the Revolutionary Communist Party, was found guilty on two similar charges and sentenced to six months imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. . Mrs Rosalie Ethel Keen was nominally sentenced to 13 days’ imprisonment which meant immediate release. All gave notice of appeal. The judge told the men that they were dangerous persons to be allowed at liberty at such a time.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 5
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169TROTSKYISTS JAILED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 226, 21 June 1944, Page 5
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