Liquor pickets ‘success’
PA Auckland Union pickets asserted a “90 per cent" success rate on Saturday at two Auckland wholesale liquor stores where they are protesting about a wage dispute. The organiser .of the Northern Drivers’ Union, .Mr E. M. Delaney, said yesterday that the pickets had stopped 90 per cent of the customers who entered Hughes and Cossar, in New’mancet, and Burns Philp, in Ponsonby. ' ’
Although they had planned to picket four wholesalers, the union decided on only two, which, Mr Delaney said, were most effective. The union would meet-to-day to decide what further action it would take, he said. .Meanwhile, Mr • Arthur Hughes, the chairman and managing director of Hughes and Cossar, said the pickets' action on Saturday was “absolutely shocking." . He said the pickets were “manhandling” the cars so that they could not enter the Hughes and Cossar premises and advising potential customers that the company was “black” and advising them to go elsewhere.
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