"MENTAL POISON"
BAN ON COMMUNISM
LECTURES IN CAMPS
MR. SEMPLE'S ORDERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Instructions have been given by the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) that social halls in public works camps are not to be used for Communist lectures. "These halls have been built for the workers on the jobs and their wives and children to use for social intercourse, study, and amusement, and not as incubators of the treacherous doctrine, of Communism," said Mr. Semple in an interview this morning. "If they are used for Communist lectures, they will be closed," declared the Minister. "They were built at the expense of the nation to benefit those employed on the jobs, not for the purposes of propaganda by individuals who visit construction camps to preach sabotage and destruction." Communist1 literature, which was described by' Mr. Semple ap "mental
Communist1 literature, which was described by' Mr. Sample ap "mental poison," will not be allowed in libraries at the camps. Mr. Semple said he did not refer to books on revolutionary history but to leaflets specially prepared in pamphlet form for the purpose of stirring up strife. He was not going to: have that stuff in libraries where it could be studied by young men whose minds were not matured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 50, 1 March 1937, Page 10
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