NON-UNION LABOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19513, 17 December 1926, Page 14

NON-UNION LABOUR.

POINT IN EMPLOYMENT. ARBITRATION COURT DECISION. . A question regarding the employment of non-unfon labour is involved in the reserved judgment of the Arbitration Court in the case of Leonard and Dingley, Ltd., stevedores, who were proceeded against by the inspector of awards for a breach of the Waterside Workers' Awavd. The defendants employed two nonunionists on a date in September when no union labour was offering. On the following day, without making a call for labour, they re-engaged the men. Later in the day some unionists applied to them for work and they thereupon discharged the non-unionists without allowing them to complete the day's work. It was contended by the inspector of awards that, having been allowed to start, the men were allowed to go on for the fe:;t of the day. , The Court said it considered that, whether the employment of non-union on the second day was right or wrong, and whether or not a call had been properly made on that day, the nonunionists were, in the circumstances, entitled to be paid for the whole day. The decision was without prejudice to cases arising at any port at which an agreement had been entered into in terms of the award. A breach of the award was recorded, but no penalty was awarded.