THE BAKERS' DISPUTE.

Evening Star, Issue 10402, 25 August 1897, Page 3

THE BAKERS' DISPUTE.

TO THE EDITOE. Sir, —I read with interest your leading article last night. The Conciliation Board have, I fear, done much harm, and have separated the parties instead of bringing them together. The employers were not organised, and Mr J. A. Millar is too strong for the other members of the Board. The proceedings were, I think, too much after the style of the Police Court. There are many evils connected with the baking trade which the Board should have inquired into. A man who has sons can go to work about two in the morning, and have the shopß supplied before union men who begiu work at four can have the bread ready for delivery. A firm of grocers who do hot employ union rneu, and who sell bread at cost price, can -undersell the bakera who pay union wages. Is this fair 1 The Conciliation Board have weakened the confidence of the public in them, and tho threat of the chairman that the parties can appeal is wrong. This cannot be done at present owing to the way the Board decided. I hope you will continue to throw light on »n Act which the Board do not, I think, understand, and teach them to treat those who come before them with civility.—l am, «tc, Bread. Dunedin, August 24.