ALLEGED SEDITIOUS STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 37, 7 November 1918, Page 7

ALLEGED SEDITIOUS STRIKE

JUDGMENT INTIJUMmAKU CASE. By Telegraph-Press Association. '. . Oamaru, Novem'tie? (J. Mr. Bartholomew, h'.M., B nvo judgment I o-day in the euse brought by the Labour Department -against William Olds and other .watersides, of Oamnru, wliu were charged wiJh taking part in a. seditious strike by refusing to iontinun the unloading of coa). from the Kitlqwa on July 2G, after. 10 p.m.

The Magistrate held that'sufficicnt nolice of intention to work special overtime from 10 p.m. to S a.m. as laid'down in.the agreement had not been given by the employers to tho union. • A'oiico to individuals! of tho union was insufficient, Notice must bo given by posting the names on a notice board, with the houis to be worked within the time,- arid as specified in the agreement. Notice wns no so given. There had been no breach of tho award.

Turning to the question raised by the prosecution that; a breach of the award whs not necessary to constitute a breach of the War Regulations, Mis Worship decided that where tko '■egiilations eouftictecl with the agreement I hey could not apply. Upon the point cf illegal combination he held that the. men had merely acted in concert to uphold thi> agreement:. 'The case against Olds wus dismissed, and .'JU uimilnr oases ■ were adjourned for a. week pending instructions from the Department.