ENTRANCE TO NEW UNION.
LIVELY PROCEEDINGS, CLAIMS FOR REFUND FAIL. £by telegraph.—press association.) INVERCAEGILL, Saturday. There were'lively proceedings in the Magistrate's Court yesterday when three hotel workers sued Charles Pro van, union secretary, for 3s, money paid by them as entrance fee to the new Southland Union of Hotel Workers, allegedly under a misapprehension. Mr. G. S. Thomson, Duriedin, appeared for the, plaintiffs. He had many heated exchanges with counsel" for , the defence arid with defendant. It was suggested that he was taking an opportunity for indulging in propaganda, and that jealousy at the formation of a separate Southland union Was the cause of the actions, which it was said, were engineered, by the Otago Union. Vehement denials were made by Mr. Thomson, who hinted that the new union would not be admitted to affiliation with the federation.
The magistrate said he failed to see in what way the money had been paid under a misapprehension. He dismissed the three cases.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19413, 23 August 1926, Page 12
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161ENTRANCE TO NEW UNION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19413, 23 August 1926, Page 12
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