File. Police and anti-fascism

Scope and Content

In London. Including:

a) Correspondence regarding prosecution of 37 mid-Rhondda workers. Nov 1936.

b) Chernofsky case - prevented from distributing leaflets, reference to the Trenchard ban.

C) Statements and records of court case of H C H Pearson who was dragged from a fascist meeting for asking for witnesses to an arrest. Oct 1936.

d) Record of police ban on Barking Peace Council Against War pageant. Nov 1936.

e) Statement of Simon Goldstein who was stopped and held by police with no grounds.

f) Letter denying permit for open air meeting in London. Nov 1936.

g) Correspondence regarding shutting down anti-fascist meeting in favour of a blackshirts meeting in Walthamstow. Sep 1936.

h) Similar records of a meeting in Whitely Road, Whitehall, including witness statements. Aug 1936.

i) Seruya Case, prevented from selling anti-fascist newspapers, and subsequent arrest. Oct 1936.

j) Case of Mr Ernest Wilson, arrested for selling the Daily Worker newspaper. Sep 1936.

k) 4 men arrested at meeting for 'insulting words and behaviour'. Oct 1936.

l) Press cuttings regarding the limitation of street meetings.

m) Case of J Mildwater. Sep 1936.

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