Australia's Reign of Terror.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 75, 16 August 1912, Page 4

Australia's Reign of Terror.

In the Glebe Police District (Svdaeyl, alone some 300 boys are being prosecuted by the remarkable "Labor" Government —prosecuted because they rel'uso t>o blackleg on their class.

More than GO boys were before a class-prejudiced magistrate named King at the Glebe (,'ourt, and they were all lined from £s,'with costs added.

Among these lads was Roy Holland, son of H. K. Holland. Roy defended himself. The magistrate refused to listen to any et-idence re the fact that 11. E. Holland had already been, lined 11 f>o for refusing to permit Roy to do what he was now charged with having neglected to do. He was fined £5 195., with 10s. costs added, with one month's j;iil for alternative, was ordered to make up 110 hours' drills, and was further committed to the custody of the military authorities for six months.

This is thn. severest penalty yet inflicted on any boy in Australia. Roy Holland is punished for being a Socialist and tho son of.a Socialist. And the Labor Party demonstrates that it is determined to <iivo effect to tho savage Mosaic law which visits tho pins of the fathers upon the children. Tlicrp is some-thing strikingly significant in the fact of this bruin] sentence-, on Tioy ITolhnd ■— a boy of livsr-and tho ooually nnd brutal tine of £100 intlici'orl on his father by another magistrate. It would almost seem that those magistrates had their instructions. Moreover, it is a dangerous tiling to be a militant Socialivt if you live in Australia. The moral is: Beware of bourgeois "Labor" Parties.