EX-STRIKER'S DISCHARGE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 9

EX-STRIKER'S DISCHARGE

TEST CASE FOR DAMAGES. (By-. Toiesraph.-Pro?s ■ Asuociation.l. . . ■_: Auckland, January 27. The* question as to whether tho new union oi. waterside workers at Auckland has power to go to an employer and insist on. the discharge of a, non-unionist employed on tho wharf was raised beforo Mr. C.-C. Kettle. S.M.,at the Magistrate's Court. Tho plaintiff in the action in question' was Frederick Mayman, one of the waterside workers who went on strike, who proceeded against the Auckland Watersido Workera' Industrial Union of Workers, alleging that the officials of tho new union intentionally and without lawful justification induced, the employer of .the. plaintiff to terminate a contract of service entered into on January 14, 1914, between plaintiff and tho employer. Hβ claimed £25 damages from tho union. Mr. Skelton, who appeared for plaintiff, in opening .the case, said that tho proceedings were somewhat of a test. The ox-strikers desired to know just exactly what was tho power of tho now union in regard.to tho matter of employment. .

Frederick Mayman, the plaintiff, Btatcd that he was engaged by an agent of the New Zealand Shipping Company to unload the coal-laden steamer Kilbrydo. ,He and his mates wero asked if they had_ their union tickets, and witness replied that ho had applied for admission to tho union. The agent then remarked that he.could not be bothered waiting any longer', and told them they had better start work.- They worked until lunch time, but, after lunclij they found that there- wore -two extra men in the hold. Tho agent of the New Zealand Shipping Company then said to witness and his mate that, in consequence of representations by tho union, he. would have to dispense with their cervices, but,-ho.-added that, if they joined the new union, they could go back to work. Afterwards tho secretary of tho new union told them that he had brought about ■ their dismissal on acof tho fact that they werp nonunionists.- ' •■ Cross-examined, _ witness explained that ho had applied for, admission to tho new union twice, but had been refused on each occasion. ■ The caso at this stage was adjourned. In another column Messrs. Thompson Bros., Ltd., direct attention to a sale at their rooms on Monday next, at 1 p.m.,' of unclaimed Roods, on account of tho Union S.S. Co., also of grocers' stock-in-trado ' Full particulars appear later. Mr. J. T. Horn, Ltd., Panama Street, has 170 acres of land in tho AVairarapa district for sale. Mr. S. George Nathan will soil, by public auction, on Wednesday and Thursday, February 4 and 5, coinniencint: at II a.m., tho contents of Mr. J. Smiidel's residence, 133 Tinakori lioad. Mr. Nathan will also sell, by order of the Registrar, of the Supremo Court, several , allotments nt Island Bay. Knrori, Brooklyn, and Eona Bay, at 2.30 o'clock, on March 4; at the Chamber of Commerce. Messrs. Williams, Hunt, and Co., John»ton Street, Wellington,.'have three farms for Bale on the Jlanawatu line. The areas of tho farms are 125, 12G, and 175 oorcs. Messrs. Tylden and Spiers, 93 Queen Htrcpt, Auckland, have 1488 acres of freeHold land for sale. This land is situated 63 miles from Auckland. Mc?.;rs. Harrourt and Coi nnnonncp an auction sale which is to bo held at their rooms, 195 Lambton Quay, to-day, nt 2.30 p.m., when a freehold suburban property at Petono'(No. G9 Richmond Street) will be submitted. The property has a front-, age of 65 feet 6 inches to Richmond Street by a depth of 11G feet. The house erecAeil thereon has five rooms, with all-the usual convenience!', and is let to a tenant of lonu standing at 125. Gd. per week. The New Zealand Lean anil .Mercantile Agency Co. and Messrs. Riifeety and Oi., .; 1.rf1.. intend . holding their annual Mle in Mr. Murifcnvi'n's yards, Porirua, on Tuesday, February 8.