UNION OFFICIAL FINED

Chronicle (Levin), 2 March 1948, Page 5

UNION OFFICIAL FINED

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Incited Carpenters To Knock Off Work

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WANGANUI, Alurch L foTivict iug William Mooro, prosident j of Ihe Wanganui sub-bruneh of the Now j Moaland ( 'arpentors ' and Joiners'; l nion on two vharges of inciting others lo boi-onic partfos to a striko, Mr. .1. ii. ' Sabnon, S.M., (iiied him £2() on oach 1 Hmrge. The in I'orination was laid undor the Strilvp and Lorkout Kmer-gem-v iicgulations, 19;!}). ; ino two rharges on which Mooro was oon\ i-ctod wero that on Febnmrv 2, ' 19 1s, ho did inoito Uo.vd .lanios to bo a parlv to a striko and tiiat on tlio samo dav ho did inoito Jolin Pratt and I hoinas Ilolt and WilJiani Lainb to be ! jtartios to a striko. Two other chnrges ' alleging that Mooro onoouragod or pro- - curod a striko in rogard to work on I 1ho two building oontraols involved, ' uoro rogardod as alternuti ves and j stru>-k out. Mr. X. R, Bain, of Wanganui, ap- l , ]>oarod for tlio Labour Dopai . niont, and Mr. II. Arndf, of Wellington, for defondant . | i Mr. Arndt submittod that in this 1 1 oaso tlio chargos did not allego that the j t .joii had boon dodared blaok bocause ot i tiio rofusal of tlio buildors to jiav the t oxtrn ratos of pav asked for bv tlio : : union. ' ' ' ■ j During tlio hearing of evidenee a ' (. bniidor allogod that tlio socrotarv of tlio j, suii-union, a nian callod Puklowski, do j, ciarod tlio mastor buildors had " cook- / od botoroliand tlio Arbitration ('ourt dooisions on tlio , carpontors ' and join- • tJ ors ' wago olainis. A .mixed roprosontat ion of employors am( oniployoos of the building trade I j ])H kod tho ptiblie gallerv llirougliout I ( Ihe hoaring, following procoedings , with oloso interost.

\> iiliam Honrv Ilasler, for whom tlte carpontors con -ornod in the chargos and Pii'dowski worked, doscribod how Puklouski, on Fobruary 17 abused the bui ilors in gonoral. declaring thev wero unjirinoijilod in not paying the extra i Hd a ii liour. Ilaslor said: " I '11 bet. vou j a quid vou aro not game to walk off the j job. " Puklowski subscquently left tho) job and dofendant callod on witness and 1 iiskod hini to l;iko Puklowski back I witnont loss of wagos. On witness retusing, Mooro told oue carpenteer to j giyo notico and ldavo tlio job, witness I siiid, and uont to anothor job and told' throo nioro carpontors- what had h.ip- i pened. Those throo earpenl-ors also left the job.

Svdney Lloyd McGregor, a earpenter and niomlior of tho Fnion, said that ho had boon working on a Smithfield Road job. Ihoro had boon *'a bit of an arguniqnt " botweon Ilaslor and Puklowski, but iis witness was deal", he did not hcar a 1 1 tluit was said. Tliere was something said about a pound and valking dowii tlio road and in tho linish I uklou ski said: * 1 1 ' ] ] take vour pouiid. 1 ' m off." MTitnoss said t li.it Mooro had conio on to the job and told hini Puklowski had boon sacked jind it would bo bettor if he (witness) stoppod work. I.ator ifooro canie back and told witness that nion 011 the other job in Nikau Street had got to knock 'off too. lo .Mr. Arndt (for dofendant) witness' said ho thought tho job wifs doclarod black bocause Puklowski had boon sacked. Thoinas Ilolt. an employee of Ilasler and Ackrovd said that I10 was 011 tlio Nikau Street job when yioore oomo | 011 to it and told tho meii that the job ' yvas Jdack 011 account of Puklowski lio- j ing sacked. . I To Mr. Bain ffor the Bepartnient ot Labour) witness said that whoi) a job was doclarod black by miv union official, monibers of the union oould 1 not work 011 it any longer. i 0 Mr. Arndt witness said he under- J stood from Mooro that the job was de- I ciarod black bocause Puklowski had ! boon sacked and not hecause of refusaJ of tho buildors to puy the oxtra ] ,ld an liour,