TRADE UNION ACTION.
ALLEGATIONS OF LIBEL. Received April 30, 11.§5 a.m. LONDON, April 29. A big Labour libel action arising out of the war has opened at the .Lawcourts. Sir Walter Citrine and six members of the General Council or the Trades Union Congress sued E. R. Pountney, proprietor of the Daily Worker, for damages. Sir William Jowett, for the plaintiffs, said the libel referred to plaintiffs’ visit to France in December to initiate the Anglo-French Trade Union Council. The Daily Worker, was the official organ of the British Communist Party which was affiliated with the Communist International in Moscow. Sir William read articles from the Daily Worker containing the following ' passages: “The real purport of the Paris meeting is to bring a million trade unionists behind the war machine of British and French Imperialism,” and “martial law in factories, a. 60-hour week, compulsory deductions from wages and the abolition of shop stewards are some of the benefits British" and French unity may bring ironi across the Channel. Sir AValter Citrine, in evidence, said the statements in the Daily Worker were misleading and untrue. The Labour movement had repeatedly declared that the money for tlie publication of the Daily Worker came from Moscow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 128, 30 April 1940, Page 7
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