POLICE CHARGES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1932, Page 5

POLICE CHARGES

MOSCOW ORDERS.’

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON^ I 'November 4. • “You must fight the , police terror and agitate for the "Chief’s dismissal,” declared a long letteiyfrom Moscow, instructing Hall Hanhihgton and Emfys • Llewellyn, leaders of the Unemployed Workers’ Union. The letter was signed, “Sidney 1 Job Eliap." Thirty-five men were arrested yesterday owing to. the.discovery of.the letter when the police 'raided Hannington f s office, /. ' ‘ Elias, who is chairman of the movement, wrote the' letter, during a visit to Russia. To-day he was charged l at Bow Sreet with inciting Hannington and Llewellyn to cause discontent, dissatisfaction and "jil-will between the different classes of his Majesty’s subjects and to create public disturbances against the police. i y ]f\ '( y , A j The neighbourhood of the Police Court was closely ' Further extracts from the Moscow letter included the following* “There is no clear indication that the movement is trying to break the police terror in Birkenhead, the fact being overlooked that'the police 1 are successfully breaking Birkenhead’s spirit. Some proposals must be made to our comrades Birkenhead and Liverpool on methods of fighting the police terror, and the agitation ’ must be continued in the streets. ' Simultaneously the trade unions fjlete' must make a national call to the rest of . the country to join in the struggle to • abolish the rtieans test.”"' Replying to the magistrate’s ques’/tion-, the'prosecutor said that the Na-, tional Unemployment Workers’ Movement. which organised the unemployed marches, was a section of the' Third International), under whose instructions Elias was acting. The accused remanded. Bail was refused.