UNION FUNDS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20005, 24 January 1927, Page 7

UNION FUNDS

MR JUSTICE EYE’S DECISION. A TEST CASE. PAYMENTS FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. (Pigbs Association —By Telegrapb—Copyright.' LONDON. January 21. The loudest and most spontaneous cheering of the Trades Union Council strike “inquest” was heard to-day when it was announced that Mr Justice Eve had dismissed the test case questioning the validity of T.U.C. payments for political purposes. A member of the Shop Assistants, Warehousemen, and Clerks’ Union sought an injunction to restrain the union from making payments to the T.U.C. so long ns the latter used the money for political objects, including the financing of Labour newspapers, and the campaign in favour of the nationalisation of mines. The Registrar of Friendly Societies had previously decided that the payments complained of did not* constitute political objects within the definition of the Trades Unon Act. Mr Justice Eve held that the Legislature had not contemplated that the. complainant, when he failed in his appeal to the Registrar, could go to the courts. The remedy he sought was not founded on a breach oi rules, but on a breach of statute. The latter had not been established. A. and N.Z. Cable.