INJUNCTION SOUGHT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 143, 20 June 1939, Page 7

INJUNCTION SOUGHT

! WATERSIDE WORKERS' UNION AS DEFENDANT ACTION BY NUMBER OE Ml' X ( Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 19. A declaration that they were members, with full rights, of the New Zealand .Waterside Workers' Union, Auckland branch, was sought in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Ostler, by Horatio William Dixon and 22 others in an action asking an injunction requiring the unian to give effect to such declaration. Plaintiffs claimed that in April, 1937, they and others joined the union, paying the annual subscription. They were, however, denied access to all ordinary business meetings and in May, 1938, the union denied plaintiffs' right to renew their subscriptions and since had maintained that plaintiffs were not members of the union. The defendant union denied that plaintiffs were invited to join the j union and said they did not pay the subscription and consequently were denied access to the meetings because they were not members and that, a renewal of the subscriptions was refused for the same reason. Counsel for plaintiffs said plaintiffs were employed in the Colonial Sugar Company's shed and had been invited to join the union, having first preference for work at Chelsea and second preference at the call in Auckland. They paid a subscription of 30s for one year and regularly attended calls at Auckland for work. In 1937 the bureau was instituted and his clients were not put on the bureau, but continued to be called from the union s I stand. When they tendered next year’s subscription this v.r.s refused I and they were told they had been dis- ■ banded.