BUTT-ENDS
FLOURISHING INDUSTRY,
SCAVENGERS ’ UNION FORMED.
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 10.8 aan.) PARIS, August 13.
Piking up cigarette' and-cigar ends is such a flourishing trade 'that a trade union of scavengers is being formed, with a view to organising the industry and adopting such reforms as ,a maximum of eight hours a day. Owing to intense tourist traffic, the industry is now in a state of chaos. Cafes frequented' by visitors are crowded with tobacco scavengers, who pounce on discarded cigarettes ■and cigars. Fights between pickersup are of quite common 'Occurrence.
Vendors of second-hand tobacco are alleged to make between £3 and £4 a month. 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 big cafes where American tourists congregate, the Bourse, where excited speculators fronziiedly light cigarette after cigarette and throw them away, is the scavengers ’ best hunting ground.
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Northern Advocate, 14 August 1929, Page 5
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