UNION TYRANNY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1710, 29 March 1913, Page 12

UNION TYRANNY.

MAN DRIVER TO POVERTY.

What appears, to be a qase of pitiless union tyranny ' was (say§ tho "Sydney Daily Telegraph"). .under the notice of Mr.' Russell, S.XI., in uiq Aqelaide Police Court last TOW, at ilia heav- 1 ing pf \insatisfied judgment summonses. A rcspectAbk-lboking man ™ sued for the payment o{ £< 16s|. 9d„ diie on account of'grocei'ios. Dffwwant said no was a wliarf labourer, and had no Tyorkfor threa weeks.- ' - , :-He Tyas 9d, overdue to tho association, qnd lost his naenibpvship, 1 and therefore could' not g«l' work. Tho S-M.: And you aro to starve tho Mst' of days bccause you aro 9d. overdue? - Defendant replied thqt it looked very much like it. Ho said lie spoke; to an officer of tho association about it, an J was ordered off. Ha could not get into, the association again without Paying .C 2. He now owed the association Gs. 3d. Members wero allowed to'be only ss. Gd. in arrears. He could not pay the .£2. Ait employer asked the officer of the association if tho defendant could take some work, but the latter refused consent, and ho therefore lost £3 os..' which he would havo got for the job. Ho started to work on a vessel' called the Prophet, but the association's officer said, "You have no' right to work hero, bpcauso you arp not n member of (lie association." Witness replied, "It w(ik votir'fiiulf, booiuiso you refused to ndcepl' tho Gs. 3d." in the day the association officer brought down two association mchi nn d witness was ordered off, and oiie of tho* other nion look his place. Tlio following week he started on the Ttirra, but was stopped again. He said he had a w\fo and twi> children, and paid 7s. («t. a week for rent. He had no money whatever coining. Tho family hud liv™ on breajl and, dripping for : the last, fortnight- He had to pawn his wifo's i'iiig to; get food. lie had no one who would tiny l.ho X'_ and Cs. 3d. for! him to uet baric into'the ajS.-ociation. 1 Vlo was disqualified for life, as it vera.