UNION RIVALRY.
INVERCARGILL, August 20. There were lively proceedings in the .Magistrate's Court to-dav when three hotel workers sued Charles I’rovar, Onion. Secretary, for £3 money paid hv them as entrance fee to the new Southland Union of Hotel Workers, allegedly under a misapprehension. Mr G S. Thomson (Dunedin) appeared for the plaintiffs and he had many heated exchanges with counsel for the defence and with the defendant. These suggested that ho was taking, an opportunity for indulging m propaganda and that jealousy at the formation of a separate Southland Union was the cause of the actions, Which were engineered hv the Otago Union. Vehement denials came from Mr Thomson. H<hinted that the view Union would be classed ns a “ scab ” union, and would not be admitted to affiliation with the Federation. . The Magistrate failed to see in übat wav the money had been paid under a misapprehension and lie dismissed the three cases.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1926, Page 1
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154UNION RIVALRY. Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1926, Page 1
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