EASTER BREAD

Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 4

EASTER BREAD

NO TROUBLE IN DUNEDIN " UNION SECRETARY'S STATEMENT The members of the Dunedin Baking Trades Employees' Union on Saturday evening approved of the recommendation o£ the Federation of Labour that where necessary bread baking .should be carried out on Easter Saturday in accordance with the award. The local secretary (Mr W. C. McDonnell), who is also a member o£ the national executive, said that the master bakers had already made arrangements to bake sufficient bread by Thursday, so that as far as Dunedin was concerned the decision would make no difference. The public had accepted the position here, and few complained of staleness of the .bread. It was recognised that bread baked in Dunedin was superior in taste and keeping qualities to that obtainable in the northern centres. Mr McDonnell, said he was of the opinion that the master bakers in the north were endeavouring to make political capital out of the bread situation, and published advertisements placing the whole responsibility on the workers, but when the workers in Wellington agreed to work on Saturday at award rates the Wellington master bakers, showed that they did not really wish to bake bread at all. Fortunately, the master bakers and workers in Dunedin were concerned with baking, and not with politics, so that the relationship between the employers and the workers had always been most amicable.