BAKERS' ANNUAL PICNIC
A meeting of.the combined employers and employees in the baking trade was hold yesterday to decided whether the picnic day of the employees' should be on a, Saturday or a Wednesday.'There were present: Messrs. Clegg and M'Millan, and forty-four others. The secretary read the correspondence from the employers and the clause of the new award dealing' with the matW. He •stated that a ballpt would be necessary to decide the. question. Mr. "Clegg for the _emp!oyers, said that they favoured Wednesday, but he was not prepared to vote : m either direction. The chairman, Mr. F. E. Davis, president of the union of workers, in response to a question from Mr. Clegg, stated that the meeting was legally constituted and properly callsd. Mr. .Clegs and Mr. M'MUlan thereupon asked leave to retire before the ballot was taken, and Messrs. Bell, M'Lean, and Mark Tonks also left the room. The ballot resulted in 7th L'ebruary being decided upon as the date lor Ac workers' picnic by a majority of 43 to -1..^ It was also resolved that the' annual picnic be held on a Saturday hereafter, and that the date for the tortlicomiiig outing be conveyed to the Drivers Union.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 4
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BAKERS' ANNUAL PICNIC
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 4
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