BAKERS "COME OUT."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11264, 3 February 1912, Page 5

BAKERS "COME OUT."

SCARCITY OF FLOUR AND BREAD.

EFFORTS TO SETTLE STRIKE,

Received Saturday, at 10.5 a.m. SYDNEY, Saturday. The Orient Company were inrormed last night that a pilot was available at. Brisbane and they will therefore despatch the steamer Orsova to-day. She will land passengers only at Brisbane. BRISBANE, Saturday. The Master Bakers have been deserted by their employees, and arc unable to supply the demand for bread and flour. The Government has decided to open a depot for the supply of flour at cost price. The Home Secretary has announced that mass meetings in the streets and squares will no longer be tolerated, and good order must be maintained. As the result of the vigilanco ot the police a number of shops re-opened last night. A few busses are plying for hire. The strike committee is lending active assistance to the police in keeping order and have appointed a number of officials, wearing white bands, to carry out these duties. It is ruuioure.il that a number of influential people, including Archbishop Donaldson, are endeavouring to arrange a settlement of the difficulty. The Premier states that negotiations are pending but nothing of a definite nature had yet been arranged. The Railway Department will discontinue all night trains. A further batch of employees has resumed work, but on the other hand thirteen hundred men employed in the Ipswich railway shops have responded to the call to come out. According to the advices received by Union leaders the tramwaymen in the southern capitals are prepared to obey a call to strike if asked.