§ 5. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that Mr. Miller, the general secretary of the North Western Railway Workers' Union, and organising Secretary of the All India Trades Union Congress, has been convicted of belonging to an illegal organisation, and sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment, and what is the illegal organisation to which he has been found to belong?
§ Earl WINTERTONAccording to Press reports, Mr. Miller was recently sentenced, after trial by jury in the High Court at Lahore, to four months' rigorous imprisonment for being a member of an unlawful assembly and not, as stated in 207 the question, for belonging to an illegal organisation. I have no official information on the subject.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODWill the Noble Lord find out what is the illegal organisation with which he is connected and for which he is liable to arrest?
§ Earl WINTERTONAs I have said, as far as I know, it was not for belonging to an illegal organisation, but for being a member of an unlawful assembly, but I will make inquiries on the subject.