MINERS OBJECT TO THE RATION SCHEME
HEAVY WORKERS TO BE
ALLOWED MORE MEAT. (Rec. March 3, 5.5 p.m.)
London, March 1
In the House of Commons Mr. Herbert Samuel warned the Ministry of Food that his mining constituents were threatening to "down tools-' if. rationed on the London basis, which took -no account of occupations. Miners could not hew holes on vegetables.
Mr. J. R. Clynes, Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Controller, replied that heavy workers would be allowed more mea't than other people.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 141, 4 March 1918, Page 6
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