EMPLOYMENT OF NON-UNIONISTS.
AUCKLAND, August 14. The Arbitration Court is to be asked to decide whether an employer engaging a man whom he mistakenly believes to be a unionist may bo excused for committing a breach of the award. The question arose from a case which came before Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., when the Auckland Operative Plasterers’ Union (Mr A. E. Skelton) proceeded against J. M. Thompson, plasterer (Air Prondergast), charging him with employing a non-unionist when there were equally competent unionists awaiting employment. Mr Prendergast admitted that a nonunionist had been employed. The defendant, however, had been misled, for the man employed had produced a card to prove that he was a member of the union. The card, it had turned out afterwards, was issued by a southern union, and it had no effect in' Auckland. Mr Kettle agreed to state a case for the Arbitration Court.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 25
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