MORE HOT WATER
LANG'S BREAD CONTRACT
BAKERS BEGIN BOYCOTT
(Received 6th August, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, sth August. The Lang Government is now in hot water for giving a huge bread contiact to Shadlers, Ltd. Shadlers wero relying on the master bakers supplying bread, but the bakers arc boycotting the scheme, asserting that tho price is unpayable. .Unemployed families are thus finding it difficult to obtain bread with their dole coupons. Tho bread trade has been so dislocated by the dispute that the master bakers have given... notice of dismissal to five hundred carters and scores of operatives. The matter had been mentioned in Parliament, when Mr. Lang exclaimed: "Tho people shall have bread!" He threatens to tako action against tho millers lor withholding supplies of flour. j
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Evening Post, Volume 32, Issue 32, 6 August 1931, Page 13
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127MORE HOT WATER Evening Post, Volume 32, Issue 32, 6 August 1931, Page 13
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