STATEMENT BY MR. ALLEN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 5

STATEMENT BY MR. ALLEN.

PLENTY OF BREAD. _ '. "Speaking to : a" reporter yesterday, Mr,'., H. F.' Allen, secretary of the Master Bakers' Union, said that' a few more hands had been secured yesterday, and it was expected that Mr. Tonks would be supplied with a foreman to-day. This will allow him to start I business 1 ' again. The whole thing had become a farce, as there was more bread in the city now than there was before tho strike. Mauy of the misters have considerable surpluses.''-''Only one .master required ( bread, and the others said they, would supply, him liberally. Things are now practically normal.. ' ■ '■'Mr.. Allen, received further telegrams yesterday' from master bakers in other parts of the Dominion expressing their satisfaction at the attitude of tho Wellington employers. , Regarding the speeches at the Queen's Statue on Thursday, Mr. Allen'said that he was writing to the Chief Inspector of tho Labour Department informing him that certain speeches had been .delivered at tho Queen s Satue inciting others to strike, and stating that the men continued-in the course they had adopted. It was for the Department to take steps, to. see that men making illegal uttorances should be pro-, cecded against. . "MORAL SUASION.", Referring to "moral suasion," Mr. Allot said: "I would like to know how that oan b« reconciled with his other statement in .the same paragraph of t The Domikion, which states that tho roll is called every day, and if anyone was misisng, two' members of the Union were sent out to find them, and-bring them to the meeting so that they could not return to work. Is that moral suasion ? Is it moral suasion whon two policemen go along to bring a man to the police station?".