AUSTRALIAN.
| [PER TRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] , MEAT FAMINE PROMISED. 'j i SYDNEY, August 9. A meat famine is promised noxt week. The Master Butchers Association has resolved that it is impossible to maintain supplies at tho proclaimed rate, thus throwing he responsibility on the Government. The carcase j butchers refused to supply moot to the ; Peoples’ Foodstuff Protection AssoeiaI tion, which undertook to demonstrate that it could sell profitably at the proclaimed prices. There is n similar state of affairs in Melbourne, where the butchers threaten drastic action after Monday.
LABOUR COUNCIL’S ACTION. SYDNEY, August 9. The Labour Council resolved to urge workers to oppose the employers’ attempts to introduce the profit-sharing system, on the grount of the pernicious result of the increase in unemployment and tho break down of the present working conditions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1918, Page 3
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