MUST BE ADMITTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 300, 19 December 1929, Page 8

MUST BE ADMITTED.

WOULD-BE. WATERSIDER.

SUPREME" COURT'S ORDER.

(By Telegraph.—Otto Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday.

An order was made , by Mr. Justice Adams in the Supreme Court this morning for the issue of a writ of mandamus commanding the Lyttelton Waterside Workers' Industrial Union to recognise Edward Gillard as a member of the union and to enrol his name in the register of members. A - claim by Gillard for £50 damages for alleged loss of work was disallowed.

This was the judgment on a case which was of great interest to wateraiders.

Gillard set out in his claim that he applied to the secretary of the union, on September 15, 1928, for membership to the union, at the same time tendering the entrance fee and half-yearly subscription, as prescribed by the rules. He alleged that his name .was entered on the list of applicants, but he was not elected. Plaintiff claimed that he had been unlawfully excluded from membership, and that he had been on several occasions debarred from obtaining work through the refusal of the defendants to admit him as a member. Plaintiff claimed £50 damages for loss of work

It was alleged by the defendants that the membership had been limited to 700 Tinder an agreement.

Gillard also set out that he was of good character and of sober habits, as required by the rules.