GERMAN LABORERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1915, Page 5

GERMAN LABORERS.

STATUS OF NATURALISED ALIENS.

IMPORTANT LEGAL JUDGMENT.

Mr Justice Street delivered his re- • served judgment in the Neilsen case, contending that the union deliberately prevented the applicant and others ' from continuing in employment. This ; was sufficient to constitute an action- ; able wrong, unless justification were shown. The belief was entertained by members of the union that it was ■dangerous to allow enemy subjects access to British ships. This was sufficient justification. The applicant, becoming naturalised, was entitled to the rights and privileges of a British subject. He had not lost these rights merely because a- state of war existed • between the country of his origin and ' the country of his adoption. The union had advanced nothing against S the applicant's personal conduct, but ! acted solely on a grenoral attitude i against enemy subjects, whether naturalised or unnaturalised. The judge granted the injunction, adding that not only was injury done to a laboring man working for a daily wage, "but injury and - suffering had been incurred by his being deprived of employment over a long period. Pecuniary damages would not provide adequate reparation. ■/