London, Oct. 21.
The serious charge of endeavouring to seduce members of His Majesty's forces from their allege Jance and endeavouring to incite them to acts of mutiny was proved against William Thomas Wilkinson at the Old Bailey to-day. He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in the second division.
'Wilkinson was: the printer of the Communist paper "The Daily. Worker," which at the time of unrest in a section of the Na over the cuts in pay urged all sol diers and sailors' to resist com:
The paper was issued with the words "Censored by" Printer," but the prosecution suggested that Wilkinson was. a willing party the passage in question and that, og the printer, he was as respon-lo as the, man who provided the There had been trouble with 'Wilkinson on 9 previous occasion, when he was fined £250 for cereal Statements in "The Daily Worker," reflecting on a High Court judge. 'The men who were then running the paper were sent to prison, but on the prosont occasion they' did
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