THE BAKERS’ DISPUTE.
TO TUB EDITOR.
Sir, —ln justice to Messrs Searle and Eberhardt I cannot allow Joseph Ayers’s letter to go before the public without contradiction. I was in their employ as foreman for eighteen months, and left of my own accord about two months ago, so I am not interested in the firm now. I usually engaged the casual hands,, who, I always understood, were paid at the rate of Ids per day if engaged by the day ; if by the week, then there was an agreement for so much per week between the firm and the man. ' I can say, sir, without fear of contradiction that I always got what I bargained for from the firm, and I don’t remember an instance of their ever going back on their word to anyone. Though I am not in the trade now, my sympathies are still with it, and I was sorry to see that my old mates had placed Joseph Ayers in the box to give ev'denoe before the Board knowing him so well.—l am, etc., Jno. Robertson. Dunedin, August 21. [This correspondence can only be continned in our advertising columns. —-Eb. E.S.]
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Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 2
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195THE BAKERS’ DISPUTE. Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 2
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