Frantic Sydney Housewives Face Grave Food Shortage

Wanganui Chronicle, 20 March 1947, Page 5

Frantic Sydney Housewives Face Grave Food Shortage

Reed. 9.40 p.m. Sydney, Alarcli 19 The city faces a food short- ' age graver than any during the war as a result of the waterfront dispute, now in its ninth day. Because of the shortage of salt many Sydney bakeries will be: forced Io close within a week. I Housewives are frantically can-• vassing shops for dwindling sup-| plies of sugar, the manufacture r,l| which stopped yesterday. Tim processing of meat is expected to finish within a week |

and an early shut-down in the I manufacturing of jams, cordials, i tinned food, pickles and ice-cream is predicted. More than 4000 tons of salt are stacked on Adelaide wharves waiting shipment to Sydney. : LIGHT AND POWER, TOO | All light and power for indus- | trial and domestic use will be I threatened if the Federated Eu-1 I gine-drivci's’ and Firemen’s Asso- I I ciation carries out its move to pre-1

vent free labour at Mort’s Dock. The association now threatens to withdraw its men from Sydney power-houses and coal-mines if free labour is used on the cranes at Mort’s Dock. Men belonging lo oilier unions have resumed work at the dock and are considering the position to-day. The engine-drivers are prepared to act even if the Trades and Labour Council approves the cmployI ment of free labour. The EngineI drivers’ I nion is heading out for £1 a week increase in pay and I other concessions.