MEAT AND IRON BLOCKADE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1991, 23 February 1914, Page 5

MEAT AND IRON BLOCKADE.

SYDNEY'S INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.

BOTH SIDES FIRM.

CABINET INVOKED.

WAITING FOR MR. HOLMAN. By Telegrauh-Press A^ociaWon-Coßyrielit Sydney, February 21. The Grand Council of the flWat industry has declared the skins of eattlq and sheep killed by tho Blaster butchers to be "black." Ttio result is that three hundred tannery employes are ictle. Tho engine-drivers and firemen employed in the freezing ctianiberSj at a "stop" meeting, decided to cease work if such action was considered necessary

in tho,interests of unionism , . The cold storage employees liave re* solved ili.it if ail attempt is made to handle frozen moat for distribution, they, , too, will ceaso.." CROWDS AT THE MEAT DEPOTS. ARDUOUS WORK FOR THIS POLICE. (Rcc. February 22, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, February 22, All the meat dopots yesterday we*e besieged, long, befor© tliay were opeiiedL, by big crowds waiting to buy. Many had waited for hours without securing supplies. Thero was coßsMerablo jostling at some of ithe depots, awl the police k chargo had their work cut oat to keep tho crowds from rushing the shops. 'His. supply is far short of the demand, notwithstanding the fact that,% Itt-rgo number of householders bad titeat sent in from the country.

A MANIFESTO. (Rec. February 22, 5.5 p.m.) β-ydney, lfqbnwry 22. Tho chief dcvfctojmiettts in tHe industrial'situation yesterday were tho i-ssuo of a manifesto % Mr. list-fill, in reply -to tho employers' statements. After reviewing tho position, he says:— ■■ "Tho employers' claim that tho trouble should be dealt with constitutionally, is a,missile, which rebounds on their own heads. The members of tho Meat Industries , Association have evidence .which wiH enable the Industrial Department to. prosecute the strikers, and they have ■β-videnco which will .en* ablo the Court to cancel tjic registration of tho Employees' Union. It is therefore ' their duty to tin? public to mako that evidence available to the Court, aiW, failing to do so, they arc not-dealing with this gravo mattoi- constitutionally. .

The Men's Committee has also issneef a statement, compfejiiiiig tliat they have boon called iipu to fight a eoirthination of tlio eiH|)!oyo.i'S, mast <rf whom aro not oven ronjntcly concerned with'tlio dispute,'and if this combination, had not brought pressttro to bear on tho employers, the Btrike would not havo been profengctl. In view of tlioso circumstances, it is ccmsklorecl tli»t tho Govornmout sliGiiid aml-crtabo ' the slaughtering, tiad make the meat available- to the public.