REFUSAL TO WORK OVERTIME

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1920, Page 3

REFUSAL TO WORK OVERTIME

... ’■ AUCKLAND, June 7. Judgment in the eases arising out of the refusal of certain workers m ifie allied iron trades to work overtime .est September, was given by Mr J. E- '• son, S.M., to-day. The Inspector ol Awards claimed £I2OO each from fnc Auckland Boilermakers’ Umpn and i Amalgamated Society'of Engineers, £2OO from' R. F. Barter, secretary <>i the last-named unions, and £4OO trq.u - - H. Phillip, secretary of the two m l (->'

unions. .. * . „ Judgment,for £SO was given far P.M’-J----tiff against each union, find jndg-unt was given for the union seuretpries, on the oround that the claims against them might fie treated an hping alternative o the others..

The Mip'istrnte said he had found vhqt workers, hidividually, had the right lo refuse to work overtime, and in .Iu case of an individual h.e would have >.<; find that bp had nqt boon guilty of /nir. In the present Cim p , under ice < • rcction of'their unions, the men had refused overtime, not n's indiviuals, but as body, as a means of compelling certain employers to concede a certain payment t„ other.workers. They, therefore, eon verted‘their right or privilege m.o means of compulsion ggaiust employers!' The Magistrate cons.deved that this constituted an unlawful strike-