CLAIM AGAINST UNION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 12

CLAIM AGAINST UNION

WATERSIDE WOKKER'S CASE

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHBISTCHUBCH, This Day

The- hearing was continued of the claim for £50 damages and membership admission and an order by Edward Gillard against the Lyttelton AVatersiders' Union.

Mr. M. J. Gresson. for the- union said that it had not 'been shown that diUard had the statutory right to become a unionist. Gillard >s counsel had referred to only sections 5 and 11 of the Arbitration Act. Neither of those sections suggested that the law conferred the right on anybody to become a unionist. Common law did not apply, as nobody ever had the right to become a member of a trades union under common law.

Mr. Justice Adams: "This is not a trades union, but a union for the sole purpose of the Arbitration Court."

Mr. Uphain for Gillard said that he did not contend that, by applying for membership and tendering a fee, Gillavd became a member of the union, but he- became a member when the committee put him on the list as being eligible-. The committee then proceeded to do something that was a breach of the rules.

Judgment was reserved.

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