A NOVEL STRIKE.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 August 1919, Page 5

A NOVEL STRIKE.

One may readily believe that there'; ■was no lack of popular sympathy, the;; other day, with the striking butchers of Smithfield Market, England. The strikers loft their stalls, 2000 of them in a body, for Smithfield Market supplies London, and is quite possibly the biggest market in the world, and marched to the Food Ministry. There they pointed out that the Food Ministry was giving them meat to sell that they did not consider worth anybody’s buying, and flatly told the Director o£ Meat Supplies that they' would close their business places before they would sell any more of it. They demanded representation on the committee which decided what meat should be furnished Smithfield Market; and, their demand being granted, they will hereafter deal in what they consider respectable and good meat. But the interesting thing about the strike, and the thing that perhaps makes it unique, i s that the butchers were striking for the benefit of their customers.