No Beer, So No Sugar

Northern Advocate, 7 January 1948, Page 4

No Beer, So No Sugar

SYDNEY, Wed.—Because they could not get beer at a Pyrmont hotel on New Year’s Eve, sugar workers employed at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s Pyrmont plant banned supplies of sugar to Sydney breweries on Monday.

They lifted the ban later in the day, following discussions by representatives of the Sugar Workers’ Union, the hotels and the breweries. The secretary of the union (Mr J. ShorteH) said that the union would continue to watch the hotels concerned. The secretary of the Illawarra Trades and Labour council criticised what he called “pig-swilling” in hotels at Wollongong and other South Coast towns. INQUIRY URGED He fcaid (these hotels had Jko amenities.

The State Government should control the liquor laws stringently. The New South Wales Trades and Labour Council may • discuss the beer shortage in the state at its next meeting. Mr A. Thompson, a member of the council’s liquor inquiry sub-committee, said that the State Government should hold a general inquiry into breaches of the liquor laws, the availability of beer, and trading hours of hotels. He said he was considering moving a resolution to that effect at the next meeting of the council.