THE CONCILIATION BOARD AND THE BAKER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 103, 3 May 1898, Page 2

THE CONCILIATION BOARD AND THE BAKER.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l have no desire to enter into the details of the various points brought out in the evidence taken in connection with the matter now before the above Board and the master bakers of Auckland, but injustice to myself I am compelled to correct a statement which was made- a statement 1 personally gave in the course of conversation, but not in connection with the matter assigned, and which is misleading. MiKent in the course of his evidence is reported to have said "That I was perfectly sick of the Union conditions." I disclaim having mado use of this statement in the relation assigned. What 1 did say was this, that 1 was perfectly sick of the maimer in which a section of the master bakers treated resolutions which they endorsed at meetings of the above named society. Resolutions'sir, which we considered lair and above board, and which, if they had been adhered to would have been of mutual benefit to the masters and men combined, and would have prevented much dillicultv in the past and the present unhappy dispute. In conclusion, sir, let me say that. in conforming to the rate of wa^es asked by the operative bakers we have not done so to advertise the respective trades we represent, but rather to comply to, a fixed rate agreed upon at a public meeting, and which with other members we considered fair and reasonable. ()u this basis wc take our stand, even though we should bring ourselves into disfavour with, I trust, a very limited minority, lam, etc., .1. BURTON. Excelsior Bakery, Grafton Road.