THE BAKERS' STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 184, 3 August 1908, Page 9

THE BAKERS' STRIKE.

MEN STILL OUT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) "WELLINGTON, Sunday. The Bakers' Strike Committee has decided to continue the present policy of strike pay and picketing. "The men are determined to leave the district rather than accept the present conditions, and many of them are doing so," remarked a member of the committee yesterday. Strike pay ivas again distributed ye3terday afternoon. Funds are coming in fairly well, and an additional £60 has been voted this week. Some of the men who are working for men who signed the Union agreement are paying £ 1 a week out of their wages for the support of the strikers. The men are said to have great hopes of legislation being introduced providing an eight-hour day in the bakehouse irrespective of Arbitration Court awards, and also daylight baking. It is quite probable that an amendment to secure these boons will be moved during the debate on the Arbitration Bill. The police have been informed that a master baker's premises were interfered with on Friday night, some ferment being upset, and water turned into a trough by means of a hose. The proprietor heard noises in the bakehouse, but he did not arrive in time to catch the intruder, though he was able to minimise the damage through being early on the spot.