LOSS OF WAGES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 11

LOSS OF WAGES

WATERSIDE CASE

COURT'S AWARDS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. In a reserved- judgment in, a case heard at the recent sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, in which three members of the New Plymouth Waterside Workers' Union each sued the union for £150 as damages for loss :.of employment through. their illegal expulsion from' the'union, Mr. Justice Ostler has awarded'; to . each plaintiff the amount which..he',considers he migtit have earned in the fourteen weeks' concerned, from which is to be deducted the amount each man received as sustenance during the period in'which he was "deprived of work through the union's: action.- . His Honour estimated -the average] amount which they would have earned at £4 per week for the period, and gave judgment for £56 to each man. Deductions on account of sustenance payments leave the awards to the three men as follows:—John Evans, £56, less £18-7s, net amount £37 13s; James' McKay," £56, less £21 os, net £34 lls; | Thomas" Gordon Graham, £56, less £26 i3s, net £29 7s. ' ' . Judgment was entered:for the-plain-tiffs accordingly, 'with costs -according to' scale 'as on claims.for £100, wit-. nesses's expenses, and disbursements. As all the claims were heard together,-! onlyone set of costs for the trial was | allowed,'but his Honour certified for £-7" 7s for the second day of the trial. The plaintiffs were also given a declaration and' injunction for /their- wrongr ful expulsion from the union, which was admitted, the trial being as to: the amount of damage suffered.: ■ •- The defence was that the failure of the plaintiffs to get work was not the effect-of their expulsion from the .-union, but;-through :ther,deaision.-,.p£. the employers not to•■ give these, pai^icujar men any further work., --.- ly^.-s^..