EXEMPTION SOUGHT
COMPULSORY UNIONISM
HEALTH COMPANY'S CASE
(By Telegraph—-Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, September 28
The application of the Sanitarium Health Food Company to be struck out from the grocers' award, the drivers' dispute, and the clerical workers' award was heard in the Industrial Court by Mr. J. A. Gilmour, S.M.
The application was based on religious grounds. A representative of the company explained that the difficulty arose because if the company were made party to the awards -t would not be allowed to employ any worker who was not a member of the union. It did not object to the other terms of the awards but to this principle 'of compulsory unionism.
The application for exemption was objected to by the various unions concerned on the ground that the company was in direct competition with other stores that were bound by awards. *»■
The Magistrate reserved his decision but pointed out that last year an application' to add the company to the biscuit and confectionery makers' award was refused by the Court of Arbitration on the company giving an, undertaking to observe all other clauses of the award.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 6
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