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CASE OF DONALD PARKER (Rec. 0.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 3. The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission upheld the appeal by Donald Parker against the decision of Mr Justice Cantor, and ordered the Australian Iron and Steel Company, Ltd., to reinstate him upon his presenting himself for employment with his shift. The order is to take effect from to-day. The court ruled that Parker’s refusal to perform the work of Lidman at the company’s Port Kembla coke ovens was a refusal made by him in the maintenance of what he believed to be his right. (Parker’s dismissal was the excuse advanced by radical elements to precipitate the current industrial strife.) There was no ground for the suggestion made before Mr Justice Cantor that Parker was victimised because he was an official of the union. There was not a tittle of evidence to support it. The commission refused the application of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association for reregistration as a union. In its judgment the bench said that its decision would not debar the association from making another application provided it was lodged by February 12. For that purpose the present application would be stood over, said Mr Justice Cantor.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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200APPEAL UPHELD Otago Daily Times, Issue 26042, 4 January 1946, Page 5
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