BUILDERS' STRIKE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 February 1927, Page 5

BUILDERS ' STRIKE

FOUR UNIONS. TCKBE DE-REGISTERED DISORDERLY SCENES IN COURT. BY CARLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —GOPYRIGH t Received 11.10 a.m. to-day. BRISBANE, Feo. 4. A mass meeting of building trade employees resuited in an overwhelming majority against submitting the question of returning to work to a ballot, as suggested by the president of the Arbitration Court. When this was announced to the Court, Air. Justice Webb announced that the Court had decided to cancel the registration of the unions defying the Court, but in justice to the unions observing the award, the court would allow the award to stand. The Court was crowded and there were disorderly scenes after the judgment had been delivered, a section of the crowd singing the “Red Flag.” Tney greeted the employers’ representatives as they entered with ironical cheers, while the employees’ representatives were cheered lustily. As members of the Bench entered they were greeted with cries of “Make way for the masters.” After the result of the mass meeting was communicated to the Bench, the Court adjourned while it considered its verdict. The babel then again broke loose, the crowd shouting, whistling, and singing revolutionary songs. Altogether four unions will be deregistered.