PROMOTE UNREST
(I'ress Assn.-
PUBLISHEFi bF "RED "VVbRKER" CONVICTED AND FINED
— By : Telegpaph-^Oopyrlght).
•• WELLINGTON, Monday. Charged with publish'ing a document 'expressing' a seditfous intention, John Joseph R'obinson, publisher of a Communist phper, the ""Red Worker," waS' to-day ConVidted by ' Mr. T. B, McNeil, S.MV who has reserved his defeision; 1 Mr. ; McNeil' expressed the' opinion that there "were several stdtements iii the paper which came under the definitron of "seditious : iritention," arid one article went much "further than -to advocate the trainihg of ybung' people to undei'stancl the Mariian" philos'ophy, hs had been'"urged by defendihg 'Counsel. "Etirther," he added, "the 'paper is published at a timo wlien New Zealand, in common with many' other cotriitries, is "faced With considerable difficlilty, dnd the Whole tone of 'tho paper is'designed to promOte ttnrest among the people of this eountry." " . ' _ Ih fining Robinson $50',' in'default three monthsy ' "imprisopih^ntj the magistrate "expressed the apihxoii that the document " deliberately1 expressed a seditious iritention." " Hd ordered Robinson to' pay £3 Ss cburisel's fee, and allowed him a njonth to find the money.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 149, 16 February 1932, Page 5
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176PROMOTE UNREST Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 149, 16 February 1932, Page 5
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