SYDNEY MEAT STRIKE
ABATTOIRS CLOSED
OFFAL NOT REMOVED ! SYDNEY, 13th November. The meat strike .has become more I acute by the closing of the Homebush abattoirs. The chairman of the Metropolitan Meat Board, Mr. J. B. Cramsie, said the reason for the closing was that the Meat Employees' Union'refused to I supply labour for the removal of offal left by the few firms operating there, and the abattoirs were closed in the interests of public health, as the offal! accumulating was rapidly becoming a menace. The committee which is organising the master butchers' plans for dealiug with the crisis has. written to the Master Butchers' Association advising it to give the employees a week's notice and' informing it of the drastic increases in prices due to short supplies. The slaughtermen at the Hoinebush abattoirs struck for a 44-hour week, and lorry-drivers declared meat black and refused to assist in its distribution to the suburbs of Sydney.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 117, 14 November 1930, Page 9
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156SYDNEY MEAT STRIKE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 117, 14 November 1930, Page 9
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