N.S. WALES' LABOR LAWS.
A UNION'S REGISTRATION CAXCELLED. REI'VSAL TO ADMIT APPLICANTS. PRESIDENT'S COMMENT. Received March 10, 10.1,") p.m. Sydney, March 18. The Arbitintioß Court cancelled the Wharf Laborers' I'nion registration, for refusing to admit four men who, during the recent trouble, were engaged by steamship owners to-take the place of unionists. When the trouble was settled, the owners discharged the men on the ground that unionists would not work with I hem. The nun then applied and were refused admission to the union. The President said be emisideitjl the cancellation made it doubtiul whether the union retained power to enfoiee tinrecent agreement entered into with the shipowners, though it did not ulVect the owners' power to enforce it, but it seemed to liiiu that the owners were quite willing that the men should have a monopoly of work on the wharves and shut out anybody they likid, so leiig as Ihe employers themselves were not inconvenienced. It seemed the employers weie tacitly, but ipiit knowingly, partics to a course of conduct which it. was the inlenti'iji of the Act to iorhid.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 19 March 1907, Page 2
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182N.S. WALES' LABOR LAWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 19 March 1907, Page 2
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