CONSPIRACY ALLEGED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18110, 9 June 1933, Page 9

CONSPIRACY ALLEGED

WATERSIDER’S CLAIM

UNABLE TO GET WORK

(Per Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, this day

A claim for £IOO was heard by Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., at the Lyttelton court this morning, the plaintiff being Harry Hutson, a waterside worker, who alleged that five employers of labor had combined to injure him in his calling. The defendants were Arthur Knight Dyne, stationmaster at Lyttelton. Robert O. Skipage, agent for the New Zealand Shipping Company, Walter Scott, a master mariner, Joseph Garrard, branch manager for Kinsey and Company, and Thomas Henry, wharf superintendent for the Union Steam Ship Company, all of whom denied a combination in refusing to give the plaintiff work. Counsel stated that in March the plaintiff was bound over on a charge of assault. He had thrown a knife along a table. The knife, unfortunately, struck a foreman and the plaintiff was charged with assault. The magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley, then stated that the case was not as serious as it appeared. The defendants considered that the penalty imposed was not sufficiently severe, and tho plaintiff had thus been unable to obtain work.

(Proceeding)