CREW'S REFUSAL TO SAIL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20898, 4 July 1933, Page 7

CREW'S REFUSAL TO SAIL.

| + JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANTS. I irREi-s ASjuciatiom v.iLß<iF.t:s.) WELLINGTON, July 3. Judgment for defendants was given by Mr E. Page, S.M., to-day in the case in which John Brown, seaman, proceeded against the New Zealand Federated Seamen's Union, Mr F. P. Walsh, president of the union, and 12 members of the crew of the Waihemo, claiming £250 damages in consequence of an alleged conspiracy to deprive him of employment as boatswain of the vessel. The magistrate said that it was plain that plaintiff's methods in handling the men created considerable unrest among them, and this was the substantial cause of their refusing to sail with him. "In my view," he said, "these seai men, finding harmonious working under pr,[ had reai ~v . . ...i • • ServiCv refusing to sail h'

with him as boatswain. Their action in so refusing was not wanton Jr malicious or done ulterior motive, and in my does r.ot give rise to an action alfi a i ns * them. There was" cause, 4 connecting tha union or* P res wMhr toe case. * <* '< J 4, ,

Road work provides more employment in Britain for each pound spent thay, class of work. It has be<&n said in"\iJU*P ouse Commons

goes in wages. Careful investigation by the Roads Improvement Asociation suggests that these figure* «hould