MILITARY OFFENDERS
AGITATION FOR AMNESTY. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 7
The Canterbury Trades and Labour Council passed the following resolution ; —“This Council deeply appreciates the action of the Seamen’s Union, watersiders, and miners to obtain a general amnesty to all political and military prisoners, and urges the Wellington Trades and Labour Council to arrange a deputation consisting of representatives of organised Labour throughout the dominion to wait upon the Cabinet requesting (It that the persecution of political offenders, conscientious, and religious objectors to military service should at once cease; (2 1 that those at present undergoing sentence be at once released; (3,1 that those who have suffered deprivation of civil rights should have the same restored.”
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Southland Times, Issue 18843, 8 June 1920, Page 5
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118MILITARY OFFENDERS Southland Times, Issue 18843, 8 June 1920, Page 5
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