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The Week Vol. 6, No. 9, 15 September 1966 · p. 8 of the scan · 204 words

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NALGO (349,000) Against Against For i For ETU (293,000) Acainst | For | Against i Against “NUR (255,000) Sor ; For Against i Avainst ee RN a en ee ee The second factor is the NUGMW's defiance of its own conference policy. Union members have the remedies within their own hands without recourse to the law. Nevertheless, it is instructive to note whet was said by 'Justinian', the legal correspondent of The Financial Times: Commenting on the result of last week's court case against union officials, he wrote: "The judge ruled that the reversal of union policy by the executive comnittee was in breach of the rules as a defiance of the May Congress. ... If the union's rules had been broken, why then did the court not grant the one and only remedy, namely an injunction to restrain action which would be unlawful? Once the union offici als had voted at Blackpool no other remedy the court might give would be of the slishtest value. ... If officials transgress the rules then the members' rights are to that extent infringed. It seems odd that the courts should countenance transgressions by union officials to the extent of denzing the only effective remedy available. "

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