FREE LABOURERS.
FORM A UNION
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Pbr Press Association.) SYDNEY, March 14. The Industrial Court has granted the claims of the Free .Labourers' Association to be represented on the Wages Board. The "Wharf Labourers' Union • strongly opposed the application. Judge Heydon, in granting it, said he thought it very singular that the dismissal of free labourers at the central wharf a fortnight ago was rendered possible by the fact that the Act contained no provision protecting non-Unionists against such treatment. Had Unionists been dismissed because they were Unionists, instead of non-Unionists being dismissed because they were non-Unionists. employers would be liable to penalties aggregating £3000. If the right to work was not a right which the law should protect, it was hard to say what was. To be a non-Unionist was not an offence against the law. He was afraid strong feeling would be aroused, but he came to the conclusion that the Free Labourers' claim must i be conceded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9166, Issue 9165, 15 March 1910, Page 3
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162FREE LABOURERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 9166, Issue 9165, 15 March 1910, Page 3
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