Gristle

To a good many Canadians, the renewal of meat rationing was just so much gristle. Across the Dominion, butchers stomped into mass meetings, bellowed to Ottawa that meat was spoiling on their shelves.

In Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points).

At week's end, the Government was chewing the toughest cut of all. Some 600 western Ontario meat dealers decided to return all ration tokens and forms to the Prices Board, with a note that they had no further use for them. Then they would open shop for unrationed business as usual. The next move: the Government's.

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