WEEKS v. NATIONAL AMALGAMATED STEVEDORES' AND DOCKERS' UNION.

(1940) 67 Ll.L.Rep. 282

CHANCERY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Farwell.

Trade union - Amalgamation - Strike of dockers-Sympathetic strike by lightermen and stevedores - Stevedores members of National Amalgamated Stevedores' Labour Protection League -Secession of dockers and lightermen from their own union, the Transport and General Workers' Union, a large number joining the Stevedores' Union, the name of that union being changed to the National Amalgamated Stevedores' and Dockers' Union-Claim by plaintiff, a member of the Stevedores' Union, that the body of strikers who left the Transport and General Workers' Union themselves formed a temporary combination and constituted a trade union, and that there was an amalgamation with the Stevedores' Union which was invalid as it was not carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Trade Union Acts- Trade Union Act Amendment Act, 1876, Sects. 12, 13, 16 - Trade Union (Amalgamation) Act, 1917.