SYDNEY BAKERS' STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 221, 17 September 1919, Page 7

SYDNEY BAKERS' STRIKE.

MASTERS POOL SUPPLIES.

NORMA!. QUANTITIES SOON. (Received 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Mr. Ilolman (State Premier), referring to the bakers' strike, sniji that as it was impossible to raise the price of bread, which would be necessary if the strikers' demands were conceded, the Government would do everything in its power to assist those endeavouring to supply the public with bread. The master bakers have decided to pool their supplies, and hope to provide normal supplies by the week-end. Owing to the failure of the conference, the master bakers decline to make further proposals to tlie union. Tn the House of Assembly. Mr. James (Minister of Labour) announced that the Government was taking steps to see that the public was supplied with bread. —(A. and N.Z. Cable. BAKERS' SHOPS BESIEGED. SYDNEY, September 10. The master bakers, who are manning the bakeries in consequence of a strike of employees, are providing a limited supply of bread. The shops are besieged, and stocks of biscuits have been rapidly exhausted. A mass meeting of operatives rejected the proposals of yesterday's conference. A further compulsory conference is sitting.

There are 2000 workers idle ns a result of the bakers' strike.—(A. and N.Z.)