BAKERS ON STRIKE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 355, 12 September 1933, Page 3

BAKERS ON STRIKE

Owners Unwilling to Cooperate NATIONAL RECOVERY PLAN Press Association. —Copyright. New York, Sept. 11. An example of the peculiar difficulties facing the local National Recovery Act boards is the failure Successfully lo negotiate a strike of 2500 bakers of fancy calces and confections. The strike has been in progress for several months. The union leaders allege the specialty bakery owners’ association is unwilling to co-operate under the Recovery Act. A temporary court injunction forbids the strikers the right to picket, and they are threatening to take the matter to the highest courts to clarify the legality of picketing under the N.R.A. Such manifestations as the bakers’ strike arc examples of the general confusion respecting labour features on the N.R.A. which are now being threshed out at Washington. With the larger industries there is noticeable growing reslivcness among many classes of workers, and similar comparatively small strikes are breaking out in other sections df the country. It is believed a settlement of the coal

code which is now before the adminis- j (ration at Washington will effect an adjustment of differences in the smaller industries, but meanwhile strikes arc causing considerable worry to the local and national administration boards. The negotiation of the coal code now appears to be reaching a crisis, with some observers predicting that President Roosevelt will eventually have to use force on recalcitrant operators. The code formulated by the administration met with reservations by the operators of such a nature as virtually to constitute rejection of the entire code. They still resist the “closed shop” provision, while it is understood President Roosevelt is determined to adhere to the original wording of the Act and allow labour the right to organise as it secs fit.