ALLEGED MEAT RING
WHARF LABORERS' PROTEST
WILL REFUSE TO HANDLE SHIPMENTS.
(•Received July 22, 10.15 a.m.)
SYDNEY, July 22. Wharf labourers allege tha,t a "ring" is sending the .primeet meat to London, where it is sold for less than inferior meat fetches here. They threaten, unless the price of moat is reduced to a reasonable price, to strike against handling airty frozen \dhipmentSk "Ihe feeling in shipping circles is •that the real cause of .the unrest is a desire for a, further increase in •wages.
UNION OFFICIALS.
DO NOT FAVOUR A STRIKE
(ReceVed Last Night, 10.20 o'clock.)
SIDNEY, July 22. The Wharf Labourers' Unfon offic•ialla -have turned •ihe. cold shoulder to tihe ,3tiggested titrike to .protest against f;he de-anrciss of meat. The secretary dieotaredi that if setioni be taken by a nation of tflie .men, it could mot be iregarded as .the act of the Union.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10675, 23 July 1912, Page 5
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146ALLEGED MEAT RING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10675, 23 July 1912, Page 5
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