BREWERIES REOPEN
VOLUNTEER LABOUR BREAKING BRISBANE STRIKE BRISBANE, October IJ. There was a fairly general response to a call for volunteer union labour for the idle breweries, which reopened today under police protection. Long lines of cars from hotels in all parts of the city and suburbs arrived and took away thousands of bottles of beer, resulting in the bottle washers joining the strikers, who are now blacklisting the names of the hotelkeepers involved. A message from Brisbane last Friday said that two breweries were affected by the strike. The employers were calling for labour, offering the former employees their jobs back, with a 44hour week and £4 12s a week pay. The strikers, who are striving for a 40-hour week and extra pay, intend to fight on, to declare beer "black," and to prevail on the railwaymen to refuse to handle beer made by strike-breakers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1937, Page 9
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146BREWERIES REOPEN Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1937, Page 9
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