INTIMIDATION BAN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22584, 12 March 1948, Page 6

INTIMIDATION BAN

COOK ISLANDS INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES REGULATIONS ISSUED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Mar. 12. Regulations extending the provisions of the New Zealand strikes and lockouts emergency regulations to cover industrial disputes in the Cook Islands were gazetted last night. The regulations, which are called the Cook Islands trade dispute intimidation regulations, provide that every person commits an offence who intimidates any person acting within his legal rights by the use of violence to either that person, his wife or child or, by threats, to injure that person or his property. Intimidation also includes following any other person from place to place, hiding tools, clothes or other property, watching or besetting his house or works or place of business, or following any person with two or more other persons in a disorderly manner in or through any public way or public place. Other Offences Outlined Offences against regulations also include incitement, instigation, aiding or abetting any unlawful lock-out or unlawful strike, or continuance of any unlawful lock-out or strike, or assisting any person to become a party to such lock-out or strike. Persons are also liable who make gifts of money or other valuables for the benefit of anyone who is party to unlawful lock-outs or strikes or registered unions or other bodies whose members are deemed to have aided or abetted such lock outs or strikes within the meaning of the regulations. The regulations state, moreover, that when a lock-out or strike takes place, the majority of members of any registered union are at any time parties to the lock-out or strike, that union shall be deemed to have instigated the lockout or strike. Any corporate body committing an offence against the regulations is liable to a fine not exceeding £SO and any person who offends is liable to a fine not exceeding £2O or three months’ imprisonment. These regulation are interesting in view of the Prime Minister's announcement last week that a small body of police was leaving for Raratonga in case of trouble there.