ARBITRATION AWARD

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1929, Page 5

ARBITRATION AWARD

<.(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 5. A case of interest to the whole of Neyvv Zealand was heard in the Supreme Court this morning. It inthe legality of industrial unions .limiting the membership to a fixed number and applies particularly to waterside workers at the main ports. .The limitation referred to is authorised by an award of the Arbitration Court. Edward Hillard, a waterside worker at Lyttelton, before Mr Justice Adams, sued, the committee of management of the Lyttelton Waterside Workers Union for £SO damages for loss of work during the past year. He asked for an older that the committee should admit him as a member of the union and accept fees tendered by him. The statement of elaim 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 phiin„tiff has been victimised by defendrants, deprived of work and caused nnuch damage by defendant’s determination to prevent him from acquiring the said status. The defence was that Gillard did not make a proper application for membership by applying to the secretary and tendering bis subscription. The case is proceeding.