MASTER BAKERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20340, 12 February 1936, Page 11

MASTER BAKERS

ANNUAL CONFERENCE By Telegraph—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 the 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 in so far as bakers are concerned, that the making of bread should be prohibited during the hours an award says should be observed as holidays. The delegates will proceed to Wellington to-morrow to Interview the Minister to extract more details regarding the stabilisation of the price of bread. Mr W. H. Warren (South Island organiser) directed attention to the following statement in a Wellington newspaper. “One baker recalled an occasion when 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. There was a suggestion that the same position might arise again. Mr C. Cowan (Auckland) said the conference should take no notice of a statement by one particular baker. The conference decided to dissociate Itself with such a statement.