DRESSING OF MEAT FOR EXPORT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 260, 28 July 1921, Page 7

DRESSING OF MEAT FOR EXPORT

A FURTHER STATEMENT.

A further statement wim made to a Dominion reporter yesterday by MjJ. Niall, secretary of the Stayohteru-ii s Union, with reference to his allegations regarding Speeding up at meat works. Referring to Mr. J. Milne’S reply to his allegations, which was published in yefi" torday’s Dominion, Mr. Niall remarked: “I stand to everything that was contained in my statement in Tuesday’s Dominion, in spite of Mr. Milne’s statement to the Contrary. Mr. Milno asks 11 1 can revo any instances of speeding up. Well, hero is one: One of the companies Mr. Milne is connected with wanted to work tho slaughtermen on Saturday afternoons shortly before tho commandeer expired, so as to get as much meat as possible in the chambers before the expiry of the commandeer. Another company wanted to work the. slaughtermen on shifts in order to secure the same object. ' "Mr. Milne wants to know why 1 did not bring tho matter before the Minister Of Agriculture. Tho freezing companies would not stand the Minister of Agriculture or any other Minister, interfering with the business of their factories, so, obviously, it would bo no use going to him about it. He could not bring tho companies to book anyhow. "There is no doubt that the question of the dressing of carcasses appears from time to timo as a remit to farmers' conferences, for the simple reason that tho farmers do not know that it is not the slaughtermen’s fault that the meat may happen to be badly dressed, but the companies’. Wo have one instance of a company having up to about three weeks' killings in the yards and on tho roads, and one of its buyers, who, being unable to take stock from the iarmors, telling tho latter that the slaughtermen were on tho 'go-slow' policy, not that thq works could not take the stock. That is tho sort of ‘dope’ that is givefi to the farmer in order to hicln the companies’ shortcomings."