CLAIM AGAINST UNION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 7

CLAIM AGAINST UNION

VICTIMISATION ALLEGED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHBISTCHURCH, sth December

Victimisation was alleged by Edward Gillard in a suit for £50 damages against members of the .committee of tho Waterside Workers' Union, Lyttolton, for loss of work owing to their refusal to permit him to become a member of tho union. Gillard also moved for an order directing the committee to admit him to membership. Tho case was part hoard in the Supremo Court to-day. It was alleged that plaintiff first applied for membership on 15th September, 1928, tendering the entrance fee of us and a half-yearly subscription of 15s. He had repeated his application several times without success. For the defence it was argued that the union roll was limited to 700 members and there wero no vacancies. Gillard allied that the number on the roll on the date of his application and on many subsequent dates had been below 700. Plaintiff in evidence said he had gone to law only after repeated refusals of admission to membership. He had been told that once he had a chance of admission, but -he would never be admitted if he went to law For the defence John Flood, secretary of the union, denied that Gillard tendered the proper fees when ho applied for admission. The case was adjourned till to-mor-row.

In future the Kilbirnie recreation ground is to be known as Kilbirni'o Park. Raspberry canes at Harrow, England, bore a second crop in late September.