EFFECTS FELT IN VICTORIA.
MEAT TRADE SUFFERING. . WATERSIDERS TO* BOYCOTT NEW. ZEALAND BOATS. (Received December sth, 1.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, December 4. The New Zealand trouble has already had a serious iffect on the meat.export, trad© of Victoria. Th© employement of about two thousand highly-paid hands will be endangered if it extends to Victoria. A representative of a leading meat firm says that owing- to the strike in New Zealand and the consequent limitation of space for frozen cargo,: there has been a considerable decrease in this season's export of lambs, although there had been a. prospect of a record season. . If the strike extends, the breeders will lose heavily. Mr Tucker, secretary of the Vie- f torian Wharf Labourers' Union, say*. the "anion has not yet been called on to handle New Zealand cargo, but if th© companies attempt to run boata- from Melbourne to New Zealand the water: siders will not handle cargo that has tobe unloaded by arbitration unionists, neither will *hoy touch goods loaded by them, '. ■~.; 'S: :
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14841, 5 December 1913, Page 7
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170EFFECTS FELT IN VICTORIA. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14841, 5 December 1913, Page 7
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