WATERSIDERS PROSECUTED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5352, 8 February 1916, Page 5

WATERSIDERS PROSECUTED.

NO OFFENCE UNDER ACT.

Electric Telep’-'trh —Press 4 «noi9 w. Wellington, This Day. Mr Riddell, S.M., gave reserved judgment to-day in proceedings instituted by the Labour Department against six watersiders, who w«n alleged to have become parties to a strike by workers engaged in discharging from the steamer Dalmoro by refusing to work at less than 2s an hour, a rate that eventually to be paid by Scales and Co. The Magistrate said the case was similar to that of Johns, the Auckland W aterside 1 nion. but in that case both parties were bound by an award. In the present case the employers were not parties to the award. The ■fondants’ acts came within th« definition of a strike, but as the employers were not parties to the award the defendants were merely guilty of a breach of contract and could not be convicted of an offence under section 5 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The information was dismissed.