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Courts & crime, 1962

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Apex Club's Gift to Police Boys

The Biz · Wednesday 22 August 1962 · page 3

Mr. Jack Sinclair was inducted as president at the Fifth Annual Changeover night of the Fairfield Apex Club, last Thursday. More than 79 guests at…

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Brutal U.s. Murder of Sacco, Vanzetti

Tribune · Wednesday 5 September 1962 · page 6

This month has seen the 35th anniversary of the legal murder of two martyrs of the American working class, Sacco and Vanzetti. SACCO NICOLA (born 1891) and…

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50 Years Ago Police Called to Council Meeting

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 September 1962 · page 2

President of Blue Mountains Shire Council, Cr. Waterhouse, called police to a special meeting of…

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Ironworkers' Officials Ask Court for Wage Cut

Tribune · Wednesday 12 September 1962 · page 10

"I am going to have an ad inserted in our Union journal saying that if workers want their wages and conditions reduced--join the Ironworkers' Union."…

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Court's pay rise rejection Angers roil workers Production goes up wages stay put

Tribune · Wednesday 12 September 1962 · page 10

SYDNEY: Refusal of the Arbitration Commission to consider increased productivity as a reason for wage increases is seen as a pattern for future decisions by thousands of angry railway workers in all States…

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First Police Ball in 27 Years

Nepean Times · Thursday 27 September 1962 · page 2

The first police ball since 1935 proved highly successful last Friday night in Penrith R.S.L. Memorial Hall, with 275 guests attending…

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Workers denounce Court

Tribune · Wednesday 3 October 1962 · page 5

After three years of negotiations with no result, plus a Court admission that they had played a "significant" part in increasing productivity, locomotive enginemen went on strike for their demands last Tuesday week…

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Lid Blows Off Secret Police

Tribune · Wednesday 10 October 1962 · page 1

Two new, flagrant cases of organised spying on labor movement organisations by Menzies' secret political police were exposed last week. Senior trade union officials revealed some details of discovery of a man…

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Unions Denounce Secret Police

Tribune · Wednesday 17 October 1962 · page 3

Protests at the anti working class activities of the Menzies Government's secret political police (misnamed Security Service) were made last week by leading trade union bodies in Newcastle (NSW) and Queensland…

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Why Has Govt. Rejected Inquiry Into Police?

Tribune · Wednesday 17 October 1962 · page 5

ADELAIDE: The Playford Government has refused an inquiry into serious allegations "about the whole of the police force in SA" made by Labor Party parliamentarians. THE allegations are:…

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Fire Bds. 'fraudulent' attack on Union: Court exposure

Tribune · Wednesday 17 October 1962 · page 5

The "fraudulent" methods used by the NSW Board of Fire Commissioners to attack the Fire Brigades Employees' Union were dramatically exposed by the counsel for the union, Mr. L. Gruzman, in the NSW industrial Commission…

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Bosses Hide Behind Court From Rising Union Action

Tribune · Wednesday 24 October 1962 · page 12

In the face of increasing action by the workers for increased leave and margins, the Metal Trades Employers' Association last week ordered its 2800 members in NSW to refuse to meet unions seeking…

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S.s. Man on Trial for Murder Killed 30,000

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 26 October 1962 · page 3

Coblenz (JCNS). — A man who at the time of his arrest in 1959 was in charge of criminal investigation in almost the whole of the Rhineland, West Germany, went on trial here last week accused of committing…

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Court threat to seize workers' property

Tribune · Wednesday 31 October 1962 · page 8

PERTH: The State Arbitration Court not only fined Boilermarkers £5 and 8- costs for going on strike, but ruled that…

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The News in Brief Police goes "native"

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 2 November 1962 · page 1

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Police Boys Chief

The Biz · Wednesday 7 November 1962 · page 3

Cabramatta policeman, Snr. Const. Ron Condon, has been appointed acting secretary-superintendent of the No. 22 Division Police Boys Club…

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Hit-run Starts Police Search

Nepean Times · Thursday 8 November 1962 · page 1

A hit-run collision late last Saturday, in which a Penrith youth suffered a fractured spine within one hour of his 17th birthday, has started a search by Penrith detectives for the car…

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Police Hunt: Switch to Southern Districts

The Biz · Wednesday 14 November 1962 · page 1

Police early this week centred their investigations into the fatal stabbing…

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Police quiz translator of Cuban booklet

Tribune · Wednesday 14 November 1962 · page 3

BRISBANE: Because he had translated for a friend a booklet from Cuba, a man was recently questioned at his workplace here by political police. THE events preceding the incident…

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Anti - Communist Crusader Admits He Was Police Spy

Tribune · Wednesday 14 November 1962 · page 10

A new series of press attacks on the Communist Party in Tasmania has originated from an article by an individual known as Austin Stephens. WHO is Austin Stephens? To quote his own words, published…

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