The Osborne Decision
DOES IT AFFECT AUSTRALIA? It may be (says "Labour Trader ,, ) that the Osborne judgment Trill be world-wide (or at least imperial) in its effecrts. Mr- Justice Gordon lias granted a member of the Illawarra (New South Wales) Colliery Employers' Association an interim injunction,, with leave to serve notices of the motion on the officials of the Union. Counsel for the plaintiff urged) that some of the objects of the federated body were to help in the establishment of a Labour paper, and to secure Labour representation in Parliament. The case was, he contended, governed by the decision of
the .House of Jxmls in the Osborne case in England, where it had been decided that no Trade Union had any power to allot any portion of its funds to the furtherance of political purposes.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 10, 12 May 1911, Page 14
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136The Osborne Decision Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 10, 12 May 1911, Page 14
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