"CATSPAWS"
"We have absolutely closed the mills, and they will not be reopened until the workers are prepared to carry on at the rates they have been getting, which, in many instances, are considerably above the award levels," said Mr James T. Sutcliffe, general manager of Amalgamated Textiles (Aust.), Ltd., at Orange on the 10 th inst. "Probably 90 per cent, of the strikers are juveniles and females and that they are very plastic in the hands of outside agitators, can be readily understood," Mr Sutcliffe added.
"Plenty of us do not quite understand why we are not working," said one girl striker to-day. "Why should we be striking against reduced wages when everyone has lost as much and more?
"Is it because we are asked to fight everyone's battle, or because we are just silly catspaws?"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4527, 5 April 1934, Page 8
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137"CATSPAWS" King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4527, 5 April 1934, Page 8
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