DISMISSAL OF GERMAN HANDS
• EMPLOYER IN COURT. ttopupossY essjd—VLuiJst o ! &S (Rec. February 15, 9.10 p.m.) Sydney, February 15. Silvester, a butcher, wlio discharged illia five German employees and was fined ils. in.each case, subsequently appealed. ; Judge Heydon, in. the Arbitration /Court, upheld the Magistrate's decision. liThe dismissal of the jSprmahs, ho said, [was illegal. '.The mere fact that the (.men we-'e German subjects did not gbo the riglit to employ them on ;other than the award terms. He added: ■•'"lt is better for us that enemy subjects 'should work for' their living than reirain idle." [Silvester was charged with dismissing five German workmen without the jequisite notice. He admitted that he dismissed them because they were not Naturalised subjects, and because the father employees objected to working y-ith them. Counsel for the defence pleaded justification, because the' men if/ere. alien enemies. • The defendant was Ordered to pay Is. in each case.]
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2386, 16 February 1915, Page 5
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152DISMISSAL OF GERMAN HANDS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2386, 16 February 1915, Page 5
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