PRISONERS RELEASE SOUGHT.
DEPUTATION TO BRITISH PREMIER.
Received December 30, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 29. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr G. Lansbury, and two colleagues are travelling to Lossiemouth to see the Prime Minister. They are carrying a memorial urging the release of Messrs Mann and Llewellyn on the grounds that the conviction is in the nature of persecution and alien to modern temper. It is signed by the majority of prominent Labour figures, including ex-Ministers.
Mr Ramsay MacDonald replied to a telegram announcing the departure of the delegation as follows: “The question has been fully debated in the House of Commons, but the Premier is always willing to receive his friends on a personal visit. Nevertheless, he must leave at 12.30 to-morrow to keep engagements.” Mr Lansbury hopes to arrive at noon.
Tom Mann, the veteran • Socialist, and Emfys Llwellyn, secretary of the National Unemployed Workers’ Association, were charged with disturbing the peace and inciting demonstrations. They were bound over for a year with sureties of £3OO, in default two months’ imprisonment and, failing to enter into the recognisances, were removed to prison.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 28, 30 December 1932, Page 8
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185PRISONERS RELEASE SOUGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 28, 30 December 1932, Page 8
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