SPREADING TO SYDNEY
NO WORK ON SATURDAYS
SYDNEY, 19th October. The trouble in connection with the meat export trade is now affecting the Homebush Abattoirs, near Sydney, the slaughtermen refusing to work on Saturdays. More than 8000 lambs should have been killed last Saturday, but the men absented themselves from work and returned to-day. .The came trouble■ isexpected next Saturday. ; The employers complain of a heavy loss from wastage while the lambs arc waiting in the yards; moreover, the men's awards, which enable them to earn up to 60s a day, provide for Saturday work during the export season..
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1931, Page 7
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99SPREADING TO SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1931, Page 7
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