BUTCHERS UP IN ARMS
CITY COUNCIL'S ACTION. MUNICIPAL MEAT SHOP. Per Press Association. CHIUSTCHUKOH. Last Night. The Mayor (Key. J. K. Archer), in a, statement to the Press, sty® thoi Oity Council will not yield to tho butchers' threat to boycott tho city abattoirs because tiie council is permitting a meat shop to bo opened in the new municipal market. n Tiro Mayor said lie did nob believe the butchers would do anything so foolish as to withdraw slaughtering from abattoirs, but be added: "If they do so it will not make the slightest difference! to the attitude ol' tlu> present City Council towards the; municipal market. As far as I can see the market is already an established success and it will remain and lie developed. If tho butchers take the action that is suggested, Hie council will deal with their couducl, when occasion arises, althen'T I am not in a position to say what will bo the lind of action. The primary aim df tho council will be to maintain a satisfactory meat supply for the .city, and citizens may be conlidcbit that this will oe done."
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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