REFUSED WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 134, 9 June 1933, Page 8

REFUSED WORK.

WATERSIDER CLAIMS £100.

FIVE EMPLOYEES CITED,

(By Telegraph. —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A claim for £100 was heard by Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., in the Court at Lyttelton this morning, the plaintiff being Harry Hutson, a watersider, who alleged that five employers of labour had combined to injure him in his call-, ing. Defendants were Arthur Knight j Dyne, stationmaster at Lyttelton, Robert C. Skipage, agent for the New Zealand Shipping Company, Walter Scott, master mariner, Joseph Garrard, branch manager for Kinsey and Co., and Thomas Henry, wharf superintendent for the Union Company, all of whom denied combination in refusing to give plaintiff work. Counsel stated that in March plaintiff was bound over on a charge of assault. He had thrown a knife along a table and the.knife unfortunately struck the foreman; and plaintiff was charged with assault. The magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley, then stated that the case was not as serious as it appeared. The defendants, it was alleged, considered the penalty imposed was not sufficiently severe and" plaintiff had thus been unable to obtain work. (Proceeding.)