ALLEGED UNION COERCION
AN IMPORTANT DECISION,
(BY TELEGRAPH.—FBESS ASSOCIATION.:)
(Received August 15, 1.30 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. The Industrial Arbitration Court haa given an important decision dealing with alleged union coercion. A member of a union appealed against the decision of the Chief Industrial Magistrate ordering him to pay £5 9s 6d, the balance of union subscripions said to be due. The grounds of the appeal were that he was not a member of the union, and had bsen compelled to join under a threat that all the other men would be called off the job unless he joined. Judge Curlewis, in reversing the Magistrate's decision, said he expressed no opinion as to the rights or wrongs of military conscription. He simply said that if it is slavery, then industrial conscription is no better.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 6
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