"STOP THAT GAME"
UNION DISCIPLINE
INTERESTING VICTORIAN CASE
WORKER ROBBED OF LIVELIHOOD,
(UNITED PRESS*'" ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGHT.) (Received 27th June, 11 a.m.)
; . MELBOURNE, This Day. case having an important bearing on the question whether unions are entitled to inilict penalties on their members for alleged disobedience of rules is proceeding. F. Phillips is seeking to recover £1000 as- damages irom the Workers' Federation of Australia and the Wharf Labourers' Union, of which he is a membcw, on the ground that the two bodies wrongfully refused to recognise him as a member, whereby _he lost, his [employment ■.'•''.""■."-.
Phillips's case is that in February last year he was helping to unload'sugar from a'
steamer. A foreman 'called d6wn .the hatch, "Fill up the ■ slings," and he obeyed the order. The union's .vigilance officer thereupon came. along and called down the .hold, ."Stop that game; you are putting too uiuch on the slings." He was subsequently fined 10s. by the union for an alleged breach of the rules. He denied liability,' and 'consequently was set aside as being .unfinancial. He could get no work except small jobs, and w.as "unable* to join "any other union without a financial clearance.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1925, Page 7
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