Injunction against TGWU officials
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TWO car delivery firms which claim that local officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union have prevented collection of cars from a Longbridge, Birmingham depot were this week granted a temporary order in the Eigh Court directing the union officials not to interfere with their business.
The companies are Progressive Deliveries Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Motor Vehicle Collection Ltd. and they are suing the officials—Mr. A. E. Birmingham, of Mayfield, Redditch; Mr. F. Tompkinson, of Shirley, Solihull; and Mr. J. T. Kettle, of Erdington, Birmingham.
The injunction restrains the defendants from doing anything to cause a breach or interference with the performance of the plaintiff companies' contracts with their customers—in particular, J. R. Inwards Ltd.—for the transporting of cars or for the collection of such cars, particularly from the premises of Autocar and Transporters Ltd., and will be effective until the action is heard.
It is alleged by the companies that the union officials are preventing them from carrying out their contracts to deliver cars to their customers. The defendants did not appear in court and were not represented.
Mr. C. Bathurst, for the companies, told Mr. Justice Plowman that Autocar and Transporters Ltd. collected cars from the Austin company and took them to Autocar's depot, where the plaintiff companies collected them.
Twice recently the plaintiffs' drivers were told by the Autocar yard foreman that they could not collect their cars from Autocar because they had been "blacked" by the defendants.