INJUNCTION SOUGHT
ACTION BY SEAMAN. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 12. Another action against the Seamen’s Union was commenced in the Supreme Court this afternoon before the Chief Justice by John James Porter, seaman. He sought an injunction restraining the union from suspending him from membership. He also claims £l6O, being the value of wages lost and to be lost by reason of the union’s action. The defence, which is similar to that raised in the action brought against the union by Douglas Gibson, alleges that plaintiff, in open defiance of the decision of the executive council of the New Zealand Federated Seamen’s Union, in conjunction with other members of the union, endeavoured to precipitate a strike by causing a hold-up of the steamer Kini at Wellington on August 2, 1934, and by conveying to the crews of the vessels in Greymouth, erroneous and misleading information intended to influence the crews in deciding to hold up their ships, and by that means force the whole organization into a strike.
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Southland Times, Issue 25310, 13 June 1935, Page 7
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170INJUNCTION SOUGHT Southland Times, Issue 25310, 13 June 1935, Page 7
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