MASTER BAKERS

Southland Times, Issue 22813, 12 February 1936, Page 6

MASTER BAKERS

CONFERENCE AT WANGANUI. PROVISIONS OF AWARD DISCUSSED. (Per United Press Association.) Wanganui, February 11. The master bakers’ conference this morning carried an Auckland remit that where an award covering an industry makes provision for holidays being given workers engaged in such industry, that it be an offence for any party engaged in such industry covered by an award to remain open or conduct its ordinary business during such time as the award prohibits the employment of labour in such industry; in other words and insofar as bakers are concerned, that the making of bread should be prohibited during the hours an award fixes should be observed as holidays. Delegates proceed to Wellington tomorrow to interview the Minister to extract more details regarding the stabilization proposals. Mr W. H. Warren, South Island organizer, directed attention to the following statement in the Dominion, “that one baker had recalled an occasion when the late Mr Massey increased the price of flour to bakers without allowing an increase in the retail price of bread; the bakers had then gone to Mr Massey and told him in effect that if he insisted on that the Government would have to bake its own bread. It was suggested that the same position might arise again.’! Mr C. Cowan (Auckland) said the conference should take no notice of the statement by one particular baker and the conference decided to dissociate itself from such a statement.