SUGAR SHORTAGE
STRIKE IN REFINERY OTHER TRADES INVOLVED <9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 8. Very little sugar is now available in Melbourne, as a result of a strike of workers at the Yarraville works of the Colonial Sugar Company. The men have‘ been on strike since Wedr.osday, and have twice refused to < bey the order of the Conciliation Commissioner to resume work. Since the strike began, no deliveries of sugar have been made Loin the refinery. Within a few days thousands of workers in jam
factories, fruit canneries, and food factories will be rendered idle. The Trades Hall Council disputes committee will meet to-day, when the Sugar Workers’ Union may move to have all sugar declared black, thus involving waterside, rail and trans-
mit workers. The strike originated over a claim ;f certain refinery employees engaged mloading raw sugar from a ship at he refinery wharf for casual wharf abourers’ rates of pay.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21633, 9 February 1945, Page 6
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