EXCLUDED FROM UNION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 10

EXCLUDED FROM UNION

WATERSIDER WL\ TS CASE

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post")

CHEISTCHUECH, This Day

An order was made by Mr. Justice Adams in the Supreme Court yesterday for the issue of a writ" of mandamus commanding the Lyttelton Waterside Workers' Industrial Union of Workers to recognise Edward Gillard as a member of the union and to enrol his name in the register of members. A claim for £50 damages for alleged loss of work was disallowed.

This was an important judgment on a case which was of great interest to watersiders.

Gillard set out in his claim that he applied to the secretary of the union on 15th September, 1928, for membership to the union, at the same time tendering the entrance fee and the halfyearly subscription as prescribed by the rules. He alleged that his name was entered on the list of applicants, but he was not elected. Plaintiff claimed that he had been unlawfully excluded from membership and that he had been on several occasions debarred from obtaining work. Through the refusal of the defendants to admit him as a member, plaintiff claimed £50 damages for loss of work.

It was alleged by defendants that tho membership had been limited to 700 under an agreement.

Gillard also set out that he was of good character and of sober habits as required by the rules.