WORK AND WAGES.
By Telegraph—Press Awocittira. Auckland, Thursday. The strike, which started among the men employed on the' Auckland city drainage, works and spread to the municipal works, was the subject of an action in the Magistrate's Court to-day, the Inspector of Awards claiming £2OO from the General Laborers' Union for a breach of an Arbitration Court award in inciting an unlawful strike. Mr. Arnt, the Union secretary, admitted that a meeting was held at which fifty members were present, when a resolution was passed endorsing the Union's objection to sub-contracting. Mr. A. E. Skelton, counsel for the Union, objected to witness answering any questions which might incriminate him as a member of the Union. Mr. Ghons, Inspector of Awards, protested that he would be placed in a difficult position if he was not to get the information he desired from the witness. Magistrate Kettle said that he recognised the difficulty, but could not help it. The Inspector at this stage withdrew, and Mr. Selwyn Mays, representing the Crown Prosecutor, appeared for the Department or Labor, and an adjournment was made till Thursday, to allow him to get up a case.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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191WORK AND WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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