THIRSTY SYDNEY.

Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 802, 12 November 1915, Page 8

THIRSTY SYDNEY.

A Beerless City. AD indeed is the plight of the New South Wales capital, sad, that is, from the point of view of the local beer drinkers. Sydney—Sydney m summer time, without its regular supply of beer —must be a veritable Inferno for the citizen who loves his "long colonial.' 5 And yet such is. or was for a few davs, the state of affairs in the City of Our Beautiful Harbour. The brewers' em7>lo.yees and the barmen and other and more humble and indirect attendants upon the great god Bacchus, to whom there is a gaudy shrine at every street corner in Svdney. struck, and, what is more, have kept on striking. Result, no beer supplies for some days, no rolling and rumbling into _thti pub cellars of Tooth's Treble X or similar popular Australian brands of that amber liquid in honour_ of which the poet Calverley penned, his famous ode. * * ■* * »' What an amusing spectacle must be a beerless Sydney! It would be interest, ing to know who engineered this last and, to the average .'Sydney , tippler, most painful manifestation of' tho Rights of Labour and the; I '' Solidarity of the Wuckers." Were it .not that wo read the other diiy of Mr. Bob Semple .—■none less —being engaged, down Dunedin way as a "coal mine inspector,-" we might fancy that the Robustious Robert had got to "work" organising on the other sfde. Bob's ■! organising days, if he has really got a Governmentbillet, may be over., ; The>trouble with a strike like this must be to keep down "'blacldegging." Even such . ;an : "incorruptible" as a trades union secretary is not to be trusted when "free - beer" is kicking around as an; inducement to. "blackleggihg.'- 1 The full, details of the Sydney "Sheeoak Strike" ought ' to make amusing., readingl;, - : ■