TRADES AND LABOUR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9762, 12 June 1893, Page 2

TRADES AND LABOUR.

[By Eleotbio Telegbaph.—Copyright.] (Pbb Pbess Association.) Sydney, June 10. ? (Received June 10, at 11.30 a.m.) There are no fresh developments in the shipping difficulty. As far as owners here are concerned, it is very unlikely that steps will be taken to secure combined action for the present.

Mr B. Slater having retired from Domination for the position of vice-president in the Tailoresses' Union, Miss A. Freeman and the Hon. W. M. Bolt, M.L.C., have been declared duly elected. On April 17 the Court of Appeal decided a case of great importance to trade unions. Mr Temperton, a contractor for building materials at Hull, had sued the officers of three trade unions: connected with building in that town for injuries to his business, caused by their action in conspiring to coerce certain master builders to break existing contraots, or to refuse to enter into fresh contracts with the plaintiff. Mr Temperton obtained a verdict with £50 damages in respect to the breaking of existing contracts, and £200 in respect of prospective contracts. Tho defendants now asked for judgment or a new trial, but the court dismissed their appeal, withoosts, holding that the combination into which they had entered was an illegal one, that they had been guilty of an actionable wrong against the plaintiff,, and were "properly mulcted in damages. Their Lordships refused to grant a stay of execution pending an appeal to the House of Lords.