THE CLEHCAL AWARD

Evening Star, Issue 22688, 30 June 1937, Page 10

THE CLEHCAL AWARD

DEFINITION OF WORD " IHBWTRY " FURTHER HEARING OF AffEAL BASE [Per United Press Association.! , WELLINGTON, June 30. When the third day of the hearing by the Court of Appeal of the Clerical Workers’ Union dispute was opened this mbrning, Mr O’Leary continued the discussion on the crucial question whether the Registrar of Industrial Unions had been justified in registering the defendant union. Counsel said this depended on the definition of the word “ industry ” in the Act. ' The occupation of a clerk was fittingly described by saying he was employed in the calling or ' employment of a clerk just as a driver working for a butcher, carrier, or baker would have his occupation correctly described as being employed in the calling or employment of a driver. The part of the section of the Act containing the words “ any business, trade, manufacture undertaking,” contended Mr O’Leary, might be regarded as specially applicable to an industry from the employers’ point of view. That was, they described the particular branch of industry in which an employer used the labour of others.