UNION PROSECUTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1931, Page 8

UNION PROSECUTED.

STRIKE AT WALLSEND MINE. BESPpNSIBIiHTY NOT PROVED. CLAIM FOR'£soo FAILS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . GREYMOUTH, Tuesday. In the Greymouth Magistrate's Couri to-day the' Labour Department clainiW £500. from, the Grey Valley Miners' Unior ae a penalty for an. alleged, breach oi section 15 of. the Labour Disputes Inves titration Act, in that there was an unlawful strike of the members on June l< at the Wallsend Mine. . The manager, Mr. Smith; 'said- tw mine was idle Tor three shifts. _l*»i May witness received a letter irony tm secretary of the tuiion, Mr. W ilium Pnr'dT, who was named as defendant u the charge, requesting that one waUew who was a member of the briandali tribute party,; be not { employed aM surveyor in the colliery. Walker, however, was employed surveying _m tn« rnvne.: A meeting of miners .on. June. W was held after the men 1 *^f< 1 of Walker's, employment and the icUf "SSa that the vice-presideni of the union announced later that. tne men would -take a holiday, any time Walker was employed, Walker an emplovee of the company as a survevor, although he was a member o. the tribute party at- Briandale. . _ Defendant produced the nnnute book of the union showing ,that m May it SS to request the to employ Walker. However, the union had linedno a strike. Witness had told Mr. Day i|.s ; that there war, no evidence that it had instigated the stoppage and t Le inspector had failed to prove the Mr. Davies argued that no dispute existed, but said the letter, of the seciethat while there was a .uepicion of the information.