DANGEROUS PROPAGANDA.
TRACING THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY (From Oui Own Correspondent). Wellington, April 8. The waterside worker who was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, to-day for distributing seditious Literature was handling leaflets of a kind that have been circulated widely in Wellington and probably in other centres. The police have had considerable difficulty in tracing the persons responsible for the documents, though the fact that dangerous propaganda was m progess has been well known. It has been freely stated 011 the waterfront that considerable quantities of leaflets preaching Bolshevik doctrines were landed here from a vessel that came direct from the United States.
The text of the leaflets found in the possession of accused was the slow strike. The workers are urged to '"strike on the job," by going so slow that they will create no surplus of production They are advised to make the payment of dividends impossible and to wr<>. private industry from within Ify "going dead slow." Other instructions in the leaflets are frankly revolutionary.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1919, Page 8
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167DANGEROUS PROPAGANDA. Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1919, Page 8
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