WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 8

WORK AND WAGES.

In the Brisbane Supreme Court on March B Mr Justice Real heard an interesting trade union case, Rennie Heath Standley, a minor, suing, by bis father, Albert Standley, the Queensland Typographical Association and fourteen others, and claiming from each and every one £SCO damage?, and an injunction restraining them from continuing to perform actions complained of. According to the statement of the claim the plaintiff was employed in July, 1905, by the ‘ Daily Mail ’ Newspaper Company, Brisbane, as galley-boy and casual reader at wages of 30* per week, the company to allow him to learn to work a linotype machine. In August last plaintiff alleged that defendants, by wrongful and malicious threats, acts, and conduct, induced the company to refuse to perform any part of the agreement, and forbade the plaintiff entering on the performance of his duties, and caused the agreement to be cancelled by the plaintiff. It was also alleged that the defendants conspired wrongfully to induce the company to take the action they did, and thus caused the plaintiff to he deprived of his chances of employment with the company. Separate defences were made by officers of the Queensland Typographical Association and by individual defendants, members of that body, but in substance they were the same. Defendants denied the wrongful acts alleged, and pleaded that if they were done they were done bona-fide and "without malice, and solely for the purpose of protecting the interests of the defendants. The case stands part heard.