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PETONE WOOLLEN MILLS TROUBLES.

ACTION AGAINST THE UNION. MAGISTRATE ENTERS A CONVICTION. (Pbb United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, Jane 1. Reserved judgment was delivered in tho Magistrate's Court to-day in the case Inepector of Awards y. the Pctono Woollen Mills Industrial Union of Workers. The plaintiff claimed £200 as a penalty for an offence under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbritration Act in that defendants diiring February and March instigated workers employed by the Wellington Woollen Company to become parties to an unlawful strike, tho workers being bound by an award of the Arbitration Court. The Magistrate (Mrßiddcll) held that although notices were given to cease employment, a strike had been proved on the grounds that if there was collusion between workers to cease work the action of ithe men in leaving their employment in a body amounted to a strike within the meaning of the Act. Further, ae a majority of the members of the defendant union were parties to a strike, the defendants must be deemed to have instigated it. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £50. Security for appeal was fixed

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16710, 2 June 1916, Page 3

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PETONE WOOLLEN MILLS TROUBLES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16710, 2 June 1916, Page 3

PETONE WOOLLEN MILLS TROUBLES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16710, 2 June 1916, Page 3

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