DENIED WORK

Evening Star, Issue 21433, 9 June 1933, Page 10

DENIED WORK

WATERSIDER CLAIMS £IOO ALLEGES COMBINE TO INJURE HIM , [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, June 9. A claim of £!()[) was heax-d by Mr Young, S.M., at the Lyttelton Court this morning, the plaintiff being Harry Hudson, a watersider, who alleged that five employers of labour had combined to injure him in his calling. The defendants wore Arthur Knight Dyne (stationmaster tt Lyttelton), Robert G. Skipago (agent for the New Zealand Shipping Company), Walter Scott (master mariner), Joseph Garrard (branch manager for Kinsey tnd Co.), and Thomas Henry (wharf superintendent for the Union_ Company), all of whom denied combination in refusing to give plaintiff work. Counsel stated that, in March plaintiff was bound over on a charge of assault. He had thrown a knife along the table and the knife unfortunately struck the foreman, and plaintiff was charged with assault. The Magistrate (Mr Mosley) then stated that the case was not as serious is it appeared. Defendants considered that the penalty imposed was not sufficiently severe, and plaintiff had thus been unable to obtain work. '