UNION MEMBERSHIP
IS LIMITATION LEGAL? AN IMPORTANT CASE (Per Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, Doc. 5. A case of 'interest to the whole of New Zealand was heard at the Supreme Court this morning. It involves the legality of industrial unions inviting membership to a fixed number and applies particularly to waterside workers at the main ports. Tho limitation referred to is authorised 1 • the award of the Arbitration Court. Edward Gillard, watersider worker at Lyttelton, before Air Justice Adams, sued the committee of management of the Lyttelton Waterside Workers’ Union for £5O damages for loss of work during the past year. He asked for an order that the committee should admit him as a member of the union and accept fees tendered by him.
The statement of claim said: “Defendants have without just cause excluded plaintiff from obtaining the privileged status conferred by membership of the said union and which status plaintiff is entitled by law to acquire, and plaintiff has been victimised by defendant, deprived of work, and caused much damage by defendant’s determination to prevent him from acquiring the said status.”
The defence was that Gillard did not make proper application for membership by applying to the secretary and tendering his subscription.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 8
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203UNION MEMBERSHIP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 8
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