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MORE than Go metropolitan butchers are running short of meat, and their shops may be without sufficient supplies at the weekend, owing to the export works strike, ‘Mr J. Balding, secretary of Vic torian branch of the Meat and Allied Trades Federation, said yesterday, that about half the butchers’ shops in the metropolitan area were sup plied by wholesale firms whose em ployees worked under the export award, which was the cause of to strike. “These shops did not carry much stock, and would be short for the weekend. Housewives should be prepared for any emergency, he said. Efforts to settle the strike will be made at a compulsory conference in the Arbitration Court in Melbourne on Friday. Mr Kelly, Conciliation Commissioner, telephoned the parties to the dispute from Sydney yester day, asking them to convene. Rep resentatives of exporters, wholesal butchers, and the Meat Industry Employees’ Union will attend. At a meeting of 700 strikers at Footscray Park yesterday the union executive and a strike committer were given control of the six-day-old dispute. These members were in structed to meet the employers in conference aS soon as possible, Mr G. Seelaf, union secretary, said it would be improper to extend the dispute to all meatworkers. Those tactics had failed in the Queensland strike, and they would fail in this shapute A strike committee spokesman said that the men were prepared for a long strike, and they had been advised to seek other employment instead of relying on strike pay to support their families. No arrangements had yet been made to picket meatworks. ‘Mr Dennett, Minister for Agricul ture, said yesterday the Government would be sympathetic to proposals that export lambs which could not be treated because of the meat strike should be agisted at the Board of Works farm, Werribee. Pennings at Newmarket sales yes terday were light, and the price of lambs and sheep fell from recently reduced rates.
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Melbourne Argus
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Wed, Oct 13, 1948
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