LIMITATION OF MEMBERSHIP.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 December 1929, Page 5

LIMITATION OF MEMBERSHIP.

WATERSIDE UNION SUED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,

A case of interest to the whole of •New Zealand was heard in the Supremo Court this morning. It involves the legality of industrial unions limiting membership to a fixed number and applies particularly to waterside workers at main ports. The limitation referred to is authorised by an award of the Arbitration Court. Edward Gillard, waterside worker at Lyttelton, before Mr Justice Adams, sued the com-, mittce of management of the Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Union for £SO damages for loss of work during the past year. He asked for an order that the committee should admit him as a member of the union and accept fees tendered by him. The statement of claim said, “Defendants have without just cause excluded plaintiff from obtaining the privileged status conferred by membership of the said union and which status plaintiff is entitled by law' to acquire and plaintiff has been victimised by defendants, deprived of work and caused much damage by del fondants' determination to prevent him from acquiring the said status.” The defence was that Gillard did not make proper application for membership by applying to the secretary and tendering his subscription. The case is proceeding.