WATERSIDER’S CLAIM
THE UNIONS WIN. MELBOURNE, June 29. Judgment was given for defendants in the case of Phillips versus the Watersiders’ Federation. (F. Phillips sought to recover £lOOO damages from the Workers’ Federation of Australia land the Wharf Labourers’ Union, of which he was a member, on the ground that the two bodies mentioned wrongfully refused to recognise him as a member, whereby he lost his employment. Phillips’ case was that in February of last year he whs helping to unload sugar from a steamer when the foreman called him down a hatch to fill up the slings. He obeyed the order. The union’s vigilance officer came thereupon (along and called down the hold: “Stop that game. You are putting too much on the slings.” Phillips was subsequently fined 10s by the union for an alleged breach of the rules. He denied liability and was consequently set aside as uufinhncial. He could get no w’ork except small jobs, and was unable to join any other union without a financial clearance).
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19347, 30 June 1925, Page 11
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