Rebels in the Holy City

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 November 1913, Page 4

Rebels in the Holy City

October 18.

Local 2, though small, is active. It has decided to pay no landlord, but to pay the printer instead. The result is that 4,000 copies of the I.W.W. Preamble are being printed, for free distribution in slave districts. This will be followed by other leaflets shortly. We have also distributed several hundred back numbers of the “LIT.,” and will keep this up for a while. No soap-boxing is being done yet, but we hope to start soon. Our literature secretary is pushing the paper, and our bundle order will be increased shortly. Last Sunday we attended the S.D.P. meeting in the King's Theatre, sold four dozen papers, some pamphlets, and gave away leaflets and back numbers at the close. So though we make little noise we are doing some-

Ch.ch. Activities

Police Discrimination

thing. Prosecution for street speaking’ continues. Mr. P. Fletcher, an antimilitarist, has just gone to jail for speaking on the street in Sydenham, a suburb of this holy city. The Starvation Army held a meeting in the same street, on the same night, and was not molested. A free speech fight is possible here. Needless to say only revolutionists and anti-militarists are fined for “ obstruction," and all the freaks of various kinds are left alone. Local 2has a meeting place where a few “live ones" meet weekly to discuss ways and means of propaganda. Each of us dig up, and the cash is expended in literature. By this means we prepare the ground for the next organiser who comes this way. Syd. Kingsford, Press Correspondent.