ILLEGAL WITHOUT CONSENT
UNION SECRETARIES' RIGHT TS ENTER ( J>r.n United Peess iWflH.os.] AUCKLAND, July 9. It is only with the consent of the other party that a clause empowering the secretary of a trade union bo visit the workers at their place of employment may be incorporated in an award. This was made clear in the Arbitra-t.-ion Court to-day, when Mr J. Purtell, secretary of the Sugar Workers Union, expressed disappointment that the representatives of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company would not consent to the inclusion in the award of a clause empowering him to visit the Chelsea works when ho found it necessary to do so. “ 1 am secretary of several other unions, from laborers to clerks, and I am never obstructed,” said Mr Purtoll. “ I frankly admit that 1 do not know what the attitude of the court is on the question.” Mr W. Scott, employers’ representative on the court, asked Mr Purtell whether ho did not realise that it was a question of law. and that the court had not the power to give him an order to go on private property. Mr Justice Frazer: The court docs not include such a clause, except by consent. I know there are several awards with that provision, but it is always included by consent. Wo could not make an order otherwise.
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Evening Star, Issue 19298, 10 July 1926, Page 12
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222ILLEGAL WITHOUT CONSENT Evening Star, Issue 19298, 10 July 1926, Page 12
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