ADMISSION TO UNION REFUSED
COURT CANNOT INTERFERE
'.rHE.is ASiOCIATIUJf TLI.KGRAM.I WELLINGTON. April 23. Judgment in a case heard at Napier has been delivered by Mr Justice Reed. A watersider, Edwin Charles Batt, sought a writ of mandamus to compel the Napier Watersiders' Union to admit him to membership, also £3OO damages for loss of employment. Plaintiff was a member of the union before the earthquake, and afterward he was transferred to New Plymouth. He sought re-entry to the union and his application, with 200 others, was dealt with in January last year and refused on the grounds of character and that the union had, since the cancellation of the award, unfettered discretion to limit membership. His Honour said he suspected character was not the real reason for the refusal. Nevertheless, clause 4 gave the union executive discretion in the matter of admission to membership, hence the court had no jurisdiction. Judgment would accordingly be for the union. He presumed there would be no application for costs.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 9
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