RATIONING FAVOURED
IN PREFERENCE TO DISMISSAL SECRET BALLOT TAKEN (Dilited Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, December 31st. The Sydney “Morning Herald” states that the shop assistants in a number of large establishments have intimated 1 that they are prepared to continue ra- ; tioning rather than face dismissal, t ,which they realise the Government’s latest decision must mean for large numbers. Secret ballots in two big city stores resulted overwhelmingly in favour of rationing. In one case a union official appeared during the progress of the ; balloting and protested, whereupon he i was ordered off the premises. Subse- . quently he thus explained the grounds of his protest: “Although the entire , staff had been asked to decide whether they favoured the present system of t rationing, only one-third of the employees had been rationed. It is unfair to Hold, a ballot among those not affected by rationing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 January 1931, Page 5
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