UNUSUAL STRIKE

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1932, Page 6

UNUSUAL STRIKE

SWEETS SELLERS'’ WM. BOYS’ With 11,01'0 as many M Sydney Cricket; Gr-Wift® ft. ißWthe occasion ©t & there , was promise A? WWhf-Ki Na the . ' sellers of sweets W W-Wfik btst a strike of the T ®’ turns that might. (exited. A “sports a. dozen boys sell he has been in the hal'it piyieg' them at the rate of 2s hl the p.W?-uI cm what they sell. On this wasidn he announced that since most of the proapecUve cus- ) tomers would be vhUdrr-n, and he could , not expect to sell uuwe than penny and threepenny lines, he ceuld not operate at a profit unless the sellers accepted a, commission of Is in the pound. This they refused to do, and they were promptly told that they would not be allowed on ths ground. However, the boys scaled a fence at the back, and interviewed their employer, who was adamant. Three volunteers accepted the new rates, but the others held out, and the stands and “the hill were void of their familiar voices crying their wares. Late in the afternoon a compromise was agreed upon, the sellers accepted a commission of Is 6d> three of the ringleaders were dismissed, and a short but. “roaring” trade resulted.