A STRIKE SEQUEL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 7

A STRIKE SEQUEL.

TWO BB.EWERY UNION'S. The >Magv.tra.tc's Court \va< 00-upied I yesterday for some time with the I hearirifr of an award, cafe arising on; of! the strike in N'ovCTirbiT la*t. The Auckland Brewery Employe,v rtiion iMr. \. E Skclton) sued Iho (.'rent Northern Brewery I.Mr. R. McVcaphl ti> recover a penalty of £1" for enrli o( eight alleged breaclie.* of Uio award. It] was ;ille?c J !,1;lt °" tll( ' resumption fif w«rk after the nlrikp lin whit* the] plaintiff union took part), defendant*en. Tvfpd eight, non-union workers ;ind ] rniitiimeii to employ them without ! compellinft them to join thr plaintiff ! union within fiipht day-, file award j i-Hquired. Much timP was spent, in pre- | liniinarv argument upon a number of; tpfhnical lepil raiswl by slr. MoVnijrh to the. pro<lu<;inn of a. printed ~l >pv ~f tihe award, the Tnion's eertili- | cite of requisition, and its book ~f j rules. «-* evidonee. I Bernard Martin, werefary „, v,, rrla.int.ijr union, whs eventually cajlod. , ~,,,1 stated bha-t the Mffht men rotVrre.l , in had never been me.mbers 01 t"e union i and -had not allied for m«ml»er.«hip I Prolonged arjniment pnsued wiw»n Mr.] M<-V«agli preceded to question tho , witness wnewnins the strike. Mr. Skelton rontendinff that the w«rer» mjarht j with the wiww* • iiild bhat ri "' ™ Pn xv-cre .-j.lie.-i out by resolution ol a nw'. in . of the union. He, ..Plieve.] (hat the eiffht m«? who wath of the OK »^be T . ~ni«n of brewerr worker*. > At. thU the rase war adjourned to Monday next. I