LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13238, 19 March 1907, Page 5

LABOUR.

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United Press Association—Per Electric 1 Telegraph-T-Coprrigbt. - " SYftNKV: Maich 18. The Albih-atioiA Court have c.aicelled the Whnif Labotireis' Union registration for lefusing to admit four wep "hlio, during the* recent trouble, were _enp.igcd by the steamship q-nners to take the place of the unionist*. When the trouble was settled the owneis disch<ti : ged these men on the ground that unionists would not work with them. 'lhe men then applied and ■wero refused admission <<> the uniriii. The PiesiJent cousideied that cancellation made it doubtful whether the union

retained the power to enforce the recent agreement entered into with the shipowners, though it did not atl'ect the owners' power to enforce it; but it seemed to him that the owners were quite willing that the men should have a monopoly of (he work on the wharves and shut out anybody they liked, so long as the plovers" themselves were not inconvenienced. It seemed that the employers were tacitly, but quite unknowingly, parties to a course of conduct which it was the intention of the Act to forbid.