TROUBLE IN SPAIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 11

TROUBLE IN SPAIN

SHORTAGE OF SHERRY

Comment on the position in Spain as related to the import of sherry is contained in a letter to Mr. A. A. Paape, Dunedin, from a firm of sherry shippers, who state they are considerably in doubt as to whether they w/ill got sherry shipments from Spain'through in the more or less normal routine, of whether they will be held uj) by the constantly recurring strikes in Spain, resulting from the revolutionary disturbance's, which have caused quite a lot of damage in the sherry ■ districts, as in other parts of Spain

They state that so far their troubles have been coi fined to a sort of dictatorship as to whom they should employ in the bodegas anil whom they should discharge. Under the new regime, it seemed that the best workers who had been with them the longest were to be turned out, presumably because they were loyal servants, and that others much less desirable and with very few qualifications, were to be taken on in their places, "Probably," the writers add, "the intention is to foment as much trouble as possible, and thereby further the glorious cause of class freedom, even if they lose a livelihood in the process."