STRIKE OF BAKERS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1001, 13 April 1908, Page 5

STRIKE OF BAKERS.

[press association.] HASTINGS, to-day. I This morning the Hastings bakers and carters, eleven in number, struck for better pay. The strikers state they have been receiving 42 per week of 54 hours, but more often than not they worked 60 hours. They claim 50s and overtime. They met on Saturday night, and decided to strike if their demands were not acceded to. No reply has been received from the employers. •* The master bakers are refusing to put on men in place of the strikers, many of whom are married men, and evince a desire to come to terms, and resume work. They wait upon the employers to-night, to discuss the situation. The employers and bakehouse hands took the delivery carts round this morning, and trade is uninterrupted.