SEAMEN’S UNION

Grey River Argus, 13 June 1935, Page 5

SEAMEN’S UNION

Further Suit BY EXPELLED MEMBEES. WELLINGTON, .lune 12. Another action against the Seaman’s Union was commenced in tin* Supreme Court this afternoon before the Chief Justice, by John James Porter, a seaman. He sought an injunction restraining the Union from suspending him from membership. He also claims £l6O, being the value of wages lost and to be lost by reason of the Union’s action. Ihe defence which is simila" to that raised in the action brought against th? i.nion by Douglas Gibsen, alleges that the plaintiff in open defiance of the decision of the Executive Co’-ncil of the New Zealand Seamen’s Union, in conjunction with other members of the Ur on, endeavoured io precipitate a strike, by causing a. Id-up of the steamer Kini, at Wellington on August 2nd, 1934- and by conveying to the crews of vessels in Greymouth erroneous and misleading information, intended to influence the crews in deciding to hold-up their ships; and by that means to force the whole organisation into a strike.