SECOND-HAND TOBACCO
A FLOURISHING INDUSTRY SCAVENGERS IN PARIS FORMATION OF TRADE UNION. Prew Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, August 13, (Received August 14, at 9 a.ra.) Tho picking np of cigarette and cigar ends is such a flourishing trad© that a trade union of scavengers' is being formed with a view to organising the industry and adopting such reform as a maximum of eight hours a day. Owing to the intense tourist traffic the industry'is now in 5 a state of chaos. Cafes frequented by visitors are crowded with tobacco scavengers, who pounce on discarded cigarettes and cigars. Fights between pickers-up are of quite a common occurrence. Vendors of second-hand tobacco are alleged to make between 60s and 80s a nionth. After filling their pockets they go home and sort the ends according to quality, selling each pile when it amounts to a pound in weight. Apart from tho big cafes where tho American tourists congregate, the Bourse, where excited speculators fremddly light cigarette after cigarette and throw them away, is the scavengers’ best hunting ground.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20253, 14 August 1929, Page 9
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176SECOND-HAND TOBACCO Evening Star, Issue 20253, 14 August 1929, Page 9
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