s Staff ban bottle dealer

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33967, 7 October 1975, Page 22

s Staff ban bottle dealer

Workers at a Christe church bottle yard have 5 banned a dealer from ”, selling his bottles there because he assaulted one d of the staff. r The 26 employees at the j A B C. bottle yard in Balfour t Terrace decided at a special d neeting yesterday noi to , ccept any bottles again from , Mr Lyndon Barr, a dealer . corking in the Hornby and - Sorkbum districts. r Mr Barr has complained J ’hat the ban is putting him out of business and making it i almost impossible for him to provide for his wife and four I children.

,( He admitted assaulting an at the yard, Mr R. [Turton, who has been off [[work since, and will be away [for at least three more [ weeks. The manager of the yard, Mr W. R. Philp, said yester['day that die company was 'not in the dispute. The ban was the employees’ response to the assault on their workmate. He said the employees' r rade union had nothing to do with the dispute Mr Philp said the assault [occurred about September 18 after Mr Barr had unloaded .beer bottles from his truck. .There had been a dispute beItween Mr Barr and Mr Tur-

ion about the number of bottles unloaded. The dispute had turned to blows. Mr Philp said Mr Turton had been rendered unconscious briefly. He had re. quired hospital attention, anc had since been off work. Mr Philp said the company was unable to accept bottles from Mr Barr because none of the staff would unload oi count them, or pay Mr Ban for them. READY TO APOLOGISE ; Mr Barr, admitting that he had assaulted Mr Turton, said he did not inflict injury any more than he was provoked to by Mr Turton’s counting his bottles short. He said he

very much regretted the incident. and was more than willing to apologise. If the injuries were as bac as claimed, Mr Barr said he could not understand wht police action had not beer taken against him. He was \ unable to keep going in busi ness unless he could sell his ibeer bottles. Hi* wife. Mrs Patricia Barr I said the family was now al (most “broke.” There was in , sufficient money to buy new summer school clothes foi two of her four children attending school. Mr Barr is a former racehorse trainer He entered t bottle-dealing business earlie this year.