BLACKBALL TROUBLE.
THE SUCGESTED TEST CASE. EMPLOYMENT OF MEN ON GOVEIIJN- .. • MIfiNT WORKS. (BT rELEGBAPn.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.} . Timaru,; April 16. , ■'■Mr. W.-'Pryor, organising secretary of. the New Zealand Employers' Federation, who visited Timaru "to-day,' stated that the Federation had been urged to.'take a test action against unions for-aiding and abetting the Blackball strike. Tho Federation could not institute proceedings, as only a party to a dispute can do;this, but if the : Black ball Company . institute such proceedings the Federation is prepared to employ counsel and bear'the .expense. This offer has been mado to the company; and a reply was expected in-a day or two. , Oamaru, April 17. '.' Mr. T. I'ryor, tho secretary to the Employers' Association, telegraphed to the Hon. J. A. Millar on . Wednesday, protesting against the employment of some of the Blackball strikers oh Government works, to which Mr. Millar roplied that he had mado inquiries and found that the men omployed had been against tho strike, wero married men, and the agent had put them on unknown.to the department. Instructions had been issued that none of tho strikers, or of those . who -had . been' employed about the mine, were'to bo on Government works. Mr. Pryor thanked the Minister.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 6
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