Chain Slaughtering System

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 9

Chain Slaughtering System

Sir.—l should like to endorse “Chain Slave’s” adverse comment of Colonel C. P. Butler’s article published in a Brisbane newspaper recently. Colonel Butler admits he was “advised” so “Chain Slave” can rest assured that the colonel’s practical experience is nil. If the gentleman had said he was “conveniently advised” then, perhaps, one could pardon him for his article. “Chain Slave” says that, to his knowledge, 100 per man has never been cut out in hie particular shed and I would add that the feat hasn’t been done elsewhere, over a forty-four hour week, or eight hours a day. However, all things considered, the chain slaughterman is still the best-paid man in file freezing industry, but, as in the past, is the loudest squealer. % He probably deserves some sympathy because be can’t earn more than £6/10/- to £7 over a forty-four hour week, but my entire sympathy goes to the employee who lias to work for 72 hours in temperatures up to 100 degrees to earn the equal of “Chain Slave.” —I am, etc., DOWN BELOW Hastings, January 21.