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High Court’s Decision IN THE DEPORTATION CASE. LABOUR SPLIT IMPENDING. [By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.] (Received 10. 10.40 a.m.) Sydney, Dec. 10. Argument in the High Court on the deportation cases was concluded yesterday afternoon. Mr. Watt, for the defendants, withdrew the grounds relating to bias on the part of the board, which was set out in an affidavit. The Chief Justice said the Court would not be long in delivering its decision. In announcing this the Chief Justice refused an application for the release of Walsh and Johnson on bail. A definite split in the Labour movement is threatened on the deportation issue. Dissension is rampant in the ranks of industrialists on f'fie question as to .whether action should he taken to resist the deportation. A special meeting of the transport group flouted the direction of the State Labour Council that a mass stopwork meeting of members of all unions affiliated with the group should he called for to-day. The proposal was rejected, the delegates declining to carry out the CounciPs orders. This action will he discussed at a meeting of the Council to-night, when attempts will bo made to over-ride the group’s decision and compel the unions composing the group to carry out the wishes of the ConnriL The defiant attitude of the groun is exported to induce some members of the Labour Council to urge +ho enforcement of the clause in the Council’s constitution, providing for tho suspension or expulsion of refractory unions.
An interesting feature of the dispute is that the seamen have led a section that favours inaction with reference to deportation, their principal reason being that allied unions are not prepared to give any guarantees of support. SHORT OF FUNDS. (Received 10. 11.50 a.m.) Sydney, Dee. 10. The Labour Council is appealing to the trade unions for funds wherewith to carry on the defence in the deportation cases, as there arc not enough in hand to continue for another day.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 215, 10 December 1925, Page 5
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