OPPOSITION BY BUTCHERS
REFUSAL TO HANDLE N.Z. MEAT (Rec. 11.45 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 18. The vice-president of the San Francisco branch of the Butchers' Union (Mr Milton Maxwell) said last night that butchers in the San Francisco Bay area would refuse to handle imported New Zealand beef when the current supply was exhausted. Last week at the annual meeting of the Western Meatpackers’ Association. Mr Maxwell supported an industry demand for a higher tariff on imported meat retailing for less than domestic beef on the ground that such competition would throw butchers out of work. A meat-packing firm in Oelwein (Iowa) announced today that it planned to sell low-cost frozen New Zealand beef there and in neighbouring towns. Two carloads of beef would be distributed on February 25 for retail sale at 29 cents ner lb. Two more carloads are expected to arrive on the following day from Chicago. A spokesman for the firm said he doubted if the customers would be able to tell the difference between the imported beef and domestic meat
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26969, 19 February 1953, Page 9
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