FEDERAL BAN IMPOSED
COMMUNIST JOURNALS
NO POSTAL TRANSMISSION
(Received 4th February, 11 a,m:)
MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal Government moved i» ban the. postal transmission of Communist literature. Mr. Fenton, tha Postmaster-General, has been advised, by the Attorney-General, Mr. Latham, that the "Workers' Weekly," -the 'Red Leader," the "Working Woman," the "Pan-Pacific Worker" the "Young Worker," and "The Soviets To-day," were issued in tha interests of an unlawful association. These papers ho has refused transmission through the post, as tho bodiei with which the papers are associated are all more or less actively engaged in advocating the overthrow of Government by violent or other unlawful means.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1932, Page 11
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