OBJECTION TO UNIONISTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18317, 6 February 1923, Page 8

OBJECTION TO UNIONISTS.

HOTEL WORKERS DISMISSED.

FINE IMPOSED ON LICENSEE. ■ '•;;• [BY teceqbajph.—owk correspondent.] :._"';V;r. 2 :;■■;,: G-EEYMOUTH, Monday. X ; Recently ; a hotel- workers' union "was registered on ' the 1 West Coast, •:' not with- ' out some: opposition on the part of hotelkeepers. ; Most of- them, however, soon accustomed themselves to the new arrange!ments, but one or two "die-hards" re- } mained ' One, of the latter : found herself iin trouble.' '. - t '. ~' ~ i "V If you join the union I'll-sack you on [the spot," was the r threat which Mrs. i. McTntyre, the licensee :'; of the Duke of . Edinburgh Hotel,: held out to one Waitress, I according to the evidence : given ; before ! Mr. W. Meldrum, S.M., '■ to-day. Mrs. I Mclntyre was as good as her word in the I case of ; not only; the waitress in ; question, but another employee, t with the result I that she v was proceeded against by X the Department of Labour and ; was charged I with, on January 10, being an employer within the meaning of■ the Industrial Con- . ciliation and I Arbitration Act, dismissing 'two ; ; employees by reason merely ;of the fact that they were members .of a union. ; Mrs. Mclntyre pleaded not guilty.' ~„'" ' Evidence was ) given by two servants , | that they 1 were dismissed peremptorily ;by Mrs. Mclntyre after informing her they had joined the Union. 'the defendant said she had no objection to the union, but was not satisfied with the girls and wanted a change. Their membership in the union had nothing to do with the dismissal of the girls. v ; -The magistrate accepted the evidence of the two girls and inflicted a fine of £10, with costs.