THE PETONE STRIKE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 6

THE PETONE STRIKE.

UNION FINED. £50

, (Per Press Association.) 'WELLL^GTON/this day. .f A reserved judgment was. .delivered iii #he Magistrate's Court to-day in the ease Inspector of Awards versus Petone Woollen Mills Industrial Union of Workers. The plaintiff claimed £200 aa penalty for an offence under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, in that defendant during February and March instigated certain workers employed;} by the Wellington Woollen 'Company to become parties to an unlawful strike, the workers being -jxmnd |by an award^ of the Arbitration Act. The Magistrate, Mr Riddell; held that although notices were given to/ /cease employment, a strike ha4si lbeen : proved oh the ground of- collusion between the wbrkers to cease work. The action of the men in leaving employment -'in a body amounted to a strike within the meaning of the Act. Further, as the majority of members of the defendant union were parties to the strike,, defendants must be deemed to have* instigated it. Judgment wodld be for plaintiff f dr £50. Security for ail • appeal wa^s fixed. ■ . } ". ■■