CUT OUT THAT SMOKE

Waipa Post, Volume XII, Issue 897, 29 January 1920, Page 5

CUT OUT THAT SMOKE

WATERSIDERS AND TOBACCO.

“ AGAINST PROFITEERING.”

The Auckland waterside workers had an extended smoke-oh the other morning, says the Star, on account of the continuance of rain, and when over 500 men were congregated in the waiting-shed on the wharf the desultory talk suddenly took the form of an all-round debate, when someone started to discourse on the recent rise in the price of tobacco. Stump speeches became the order of the day, and members of the informal meeting universally expressed the opinion that the prices of smoking material had gone beyond the pitch of endurance. A discussion of ways and means of meeting the position ended in a resolution being carried that “ This meeting of waterside workers pledges itself to refrain from smoking, and to do its utmost to advocate an extension of the self-denial until such time as a substantial reduction is made in the price of tobacco.”