IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL DECISION
ALLEGED UNION COERCION. Sydney, August 15. Tho Industrial Arbitration Court has givou an important decision dealing with alleged union coercion. A member of a union appealed, against tho decision of the Chief Industrial Magistrate ordering l : him to pay £5 9s. 6d., tho balance of union subscriptions said to bo due. Tho pounds of the appeal were that ho was not a member of tho union, end had been compelled to join under a threat that all the other men would bo called \ / off tho job unless he joined. Judge Curlewis, in reversing the Magistrate's decision, said ho expressed no opinion as to tho rights or wrongs of •' military conscription. Ho simply said that if'it is slavery then industrial conscription is no better.—Press Assff.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 5
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127IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL DECISION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 5
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