STRIKES DEVELOP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 9

STRIKES DEVELOP.

MEAT WORKERS OUT.

Volunteers Freely Respond To Employers' Call. GRAVE AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. A strike has developed in the meat export industry in Victoria, following a decision by the slaughtermen to reject the terms offered by the exporters for a settlement of the dispute over the team system of killing.

The exporters have decided to staff the works with volunteers, who are coming forward freely. Serious developments are expected by unionists, and an extension of the strike to other States is believed to be possible.

The meat works' trouble and the fellmongers' strike at Sydney are raising strong protests from shipping interests, who point out that some vessels have made a 12,000-mile trip out, partly loaded, and now are threatened with little or no cargo to take back.

The fellmongery employers at Sydney announced yesterday afternoon that the five yards affected will be closed to-day. There seems to be little likelihood at present of the trouble spreading to other unions.

CANADA PLEASED. AUSTRALIA'S TARIFF CUTS. OTTAWA, October 6. The reduction of primage duties by Australia against Canadian and United Kingdom goods was hailed as glad tidings by Dr. Ernest Scott, of Melbourne University, in an address to members of the Canadian Club to-day. "You in Canada have received that announcement with approval," he said, "because it is a very good start. I must not comment on politics, but I may venture to hope that Australia's example may be followed here."