"AN EMPHATIC PROTEST"
The following resolution was passed at a stop-work meeting of the Wellington branch of the Federated Seamen's Union of New Zealand, held in the Trades Hull yesterday: "That this meeting enters an_ emphatic protest against the sentences, £50 or three months' imprisonment, passed on four-members of the working class who were convicted by Mr. E. Page, S.M.. on 21st November, at the Wellington .Magistrate's Court, for being in possession of an 'allegedly seditious workingclass literature. We demand that the sentences be quashed, and affirm the l-ifrhfc of the workers to read what they will, regardless of official interference, and call for the: repeal. of all legislation which limits that right and provides machinery for repressive action against the working class,organisations."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 18
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123"AN EMPHATIC PROTEST" Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 18
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