WORK REFUSED
MAN GOES TO LAW
ALLEGED COLLUSION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. 'A claim for £100 is being heard by Mr. 11. A. Young, S.M., at Lyttelton this morning. Tho plaintiff- is Harry Hutson, a waterside worker, who alleged that five employers of labour combined to injure him in his1 calling. The defendants are Arthur Knight .Dyne, statio'nmaster at Lyttelton, Robert; C. Skipagc, agent for the New Zealand Shipping Company, Walter Scott, master mariner, Joseph Garrard, branch manager for KHisey and Co., and Thomas Henry, wharf superintendent for the Union Steam Ship Company, all of whom denied combination in refusing to give the plaintiff work.. Counsel stated that in March the plaintiff waa bound over on n' charge of assault. He had thrown a knife along the table, and the knife unfortunately struck a foreman, and tho plaintiff was charged with assault. Tho Magistrate (Mr. E. D. Moslcy) stated at the time that the case was not as serious as appeared. The defendants, however, considered that the penalty imposed was -not sufficiently severe, and the plaintiff had thus been unable to obtain work. The case is proceeding.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 134, 9 June 1933, Page 8
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189WORK REFUSED Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 134, 9 June 1933, Page 8
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