Action for defamation about evidence given by Roy before the Garment Workers Union Commission of Inquiry, 12 April 1949. The matter was settled out of court Roy paying £200 and costs.

Fight against listing as a Communist in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (1950).

Action for defamation.

See also Sachs v Voortrekkerpers 1941-1942.

Withdrawal of passport to Sachs, 20 May 1949 which prevented him from attending the International Conference of Garment and Textile Trade Unions, Lyons, France, 20 June 1949. Sachs refused to surrender the passport.

Dr Donges, Minister of the Interior, made an application to the Supreme Court (Witwatersrand Local Division), Judge Roper deciding against Sachs. Sachs appealed and on the 14 March 1950 his appeal was upheld with costs.

Application to set aside Minister's order removing Sachs from Secretaryship of the Garment Workers Union and prohibiting him from attending public gatherings.

Application was dismissed.

Papers.

Action for defamation on publication.

Refers to the following cases:

Rex v B Rieback and M Rieback February 1944.

Rex v Elsie Hartzenberg and nine others February-May 1944.

Rex v Sachs May-July 1944.

Inez Mentos v Minister of Finance.

Charge of sedition by initiating a strike of Black mine employees on the Witwatersrand. The accused include members of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (William Henry Andrews, Moses Monani Kotane, Harry Snitcher, Lucas Phillips, Fred Carneson, Harry Allimothoo Naidoo, Isaac Osher Horvitch and Harold Jack Simons) William John Roberts (member of the Johannesburg District Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa) and Louis Charles Joffe (member of the African Mineworkers Union Fund Raising Committee). The indictment was quashed.

Papers.

Accused of illegally striking 10-14 February 1944 while in the employ of Rieback and Son. They were convicted on 6 May 1944 in the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court and were sentenced to pay a fine of £15 each with a suspended sentence of three months imprisonment with hard labour.

Charge of attempted extortion, by demand of Sachs that Rieback pay back the amount he had underpaid Inez Mentos.

On 28 July 1944 Sachs was found guilty and fined £40 or one month's imprisonment with hard labour.

Papers.