COMMUNISM NOT ALLOWED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 38, 1 March 1937, Page 7

COMMUNISM NOT ALLOWED

Press Assocmiion.j

"Mentai Poison" Banned From P.W.D. Camps . . . MR SEMPLE'S 0RDERS

(By 1'elegraph—

CHEISTGHUECH, This Day. ■ Instructions have been given by the Hon. E. Somple that sociai halls ini Public ,Works camps are not to be used for CJommunist lectures. "These halls have been built for workers on the jobs and their wives and children to use for sociai intercourse, study and amusement and not as incubators of treacherous doctrines of Gommuni&m," said Mr ssenxple in an interview this nxorning. "If these halls are used for Gommunist lectures they will be closed. They were built at #the expense of the nation to benefit those employed on the jobs, not for purposes of propaganda by individiials who visit constructxon camps to preach sabotage and destruction. ' ' Communist literature, which was deseribed by Mr Semple as "mentai poison," will not be allowed in the 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 the li.bararies where it could be studied by young men whose mindiS were not matured.