ABATTOIR WORKERS STRIKE.
CALL FOR VOLUNTEER IxABOUR (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright; Received Wednesday, 10.15 p.-n. SYDNEY, July 13. City folk are threatened with q meat shortage owing to trouble at the flomebush Abattoirs where- there have been thirty strikes in the past eighteen months. The present dispute is due to the mutton slaughtermen's refusal to accept an adjustment to their working hours, leading to a further hold-up. The Government is so exasperated that it has authorised Mr. Mair (Minister of Labour) to call for volunteer labour in the morning. The strikers have now been joined by slaughtermen from other abattoirs as well as Newcastle.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1938, Page 3
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