UNIONS AND POLITICS.
VALIDITY DF PAYMENTS. A TEST ACTION DECIDED. (Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 21. The loudest and most 'Spontaneous cheering of the “strike” inquest was heard to-day when it was announced that Mr Justice Eve had dismissed the left\fon political purposes. **' ■ A member of the Shoo Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks’' Union sought an injunction to restrain the Union making payments to the Council so long as the latter used the money for political objects, including financing Labour newspapers and the campaign in favour of the nationalisation of the mines. The registrar of Friendly Societies had previously decided that the payments complained of did not constitute a political object within the definition of the Trade Union Act. Mr Justice Eve held that the legislature had not contemplated that complainant, when he failed in his appeal to the Registrar, could go to the Courts. The remedy he sought was not fopntjcd op..a Jire.neli .of the rides, but op a.' breach .of the ..statute. The latter had established. ‘A!
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10826, 22 January 1927, Page 5
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