COMMUNIST GAOLED
INCITED COMRADES TO MURDER POLICE ROTHBURY RIOTS SEQUEL United P.. 1 Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, Friday. Joseph Shelley, described as a German Communist, was today sentenced to five months’ imprisonment on a charge of inciting the miners to murder the police. Evidence was given in the Maitland Court that accused addressed a large gatheriug of miners, and urged them to shoot down the police and the Rothbury free labourers at the Rothbury mine. A message from Canberra savs the Prime Minister has decided to appeal to all parties In the coalmines dispute to set an example of obedience to the law', by obeying Mr. Justice Beeby’s last order to reopen the coalmines at the rates ruling before the present stoppage.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 9
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120COMMUNIST GAOLED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 9
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