INDUSTRIAL UNIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNIONS

A TEIGHNIOAL POINT:

(Per Press Association)

AVEILLINOTOX, last night. Tihe,Fuir Court' to-diiy had before it a« application by F. W. Rowley (Registrar of Ind'iistrial Unions) for a declaratory judgment as to wJietKei-" section 20 of the Arbitration Afct enable^ an indiustrial union consisting' of m. one ind'iistry "'to amalgamate wifcli a. union coneistiing" of Workers. engaged m a different- industry if tliose industries nre related industries within the. meaning of section 24 of the Act. ■Sir J. W. '.' Salirioiid. (Solicitor-General) appealed for the Registrar and Sir John FLndilay, K.O. (with him Mr .L. Edwards), for the Canterbury Slaughtermen's Union, wJiioh .Vas joined as defendant. •■;' v '..Sir J. W. 'Salmond said the defendant union was desii'ous of a/malgamatin'g « r itih a number of other unions and applved 1 for amalgamation. The Registrar . .refused the application on the ground^hafc it was n6t authorised by the section, and the question at issue was whether the 'union, m 'order '■ to be ' anro ).'? gamated, must be engagedi^in the same industry, or whether>.'it was siifftcjint that its members were Engaged in ' different though related industines. „ :■> i It was siibmitted on behalf of the, Registrar that.th«y niust be engaged iit> • the same iridiastry. v ■ , . „.''. ' * \. It was argued on bhe oilier sid« that it was sufficient if tliey. iwere related tip each other. .. . ........ <i • The Courjj resQyye^.itfl.t^oision.