THE BAKERS' TROUBLE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 250, 15 July 1908, Page 8

THE BAKERS' TROUBLE.

jl "THERE IS NO STRIKE!" j PLENTY OF APPLICANTS FOR WORK, r "Well, what's the latest about tho k strike?" Mr. 11. F. Allen, secretary of the Master Bakers' Union was asked yesterday. "Strike! there is' no strike!" said Mr. Allen cheerfully. "What do you mean?" . . " I mean that Wellington is getting all the broad it needs, arid'three inen' came to ine to-day for work, and I could not place them." < • '■> " ■ "What—bakers?" • ■ i "Yes,, bakers. All wo want.now.are.two or three foremen, and-we'll be all right; so > you', see, there's no strike." r This seemed pretty obvious, or at' least it appears that the back of the trouble -is , broken. There aro bakers out of, work, but neither the master bakers nor the public are very greatly interested in . the matter as far as can be judged. j • Tho strike may prove rather disastrous to some of the bakers, who have been-paid j in'excess of .'award wages. One foreman who went out was in,receipt of £4 10s. per week. If taken back at all he will probably , get £3 35., the award wage. ' Some' of- the new hands that were taken s on soon after the strike are doing' well. . Some of the second hands who worked > overtime drew as much as £3,135. for last week's J work.' .' • '■ The : Strike Committee (of the grades-Coun-cil),"is said to'be devoting its energies in' j the /direction of approaching other unions » for funds to continue -the strike.