BAKERS’ CARTERS ON STRIKE.
SHORTER HOURS AND BIGGER. PAY. i TRADE UNINTERRUPTED. (Press Association.) HASTINGS, April 13. This morning the Hastings bakers’ carters, eleven in number, struck for better pay. The strikers state that they have Ibeen receiving 42s for a week of fifty-four hours, but more often than not they worked sixty hours. They claim 50 hours and overtime. They met- on Saturday night- and decided to strike if their demands were not acceded to. No reply has been received from the employers. The master bakers are refusing to put on nien iin place of the strikers, many of. whom are married men, and evince a desire to come to terms and resume work. They wait upon- employers to-night, and discuss the situation; The employers and bakehouse -hands took the .delivery carts round this morning. Trade is uninterrupted. GOOD ADVICE. (Press Association.) NAPIER, April 13. Air. Culver, Inspector of Factories and Labor, accompanied: by Air." Gohns, his successor, had an interview this afternoon- with the bakers’ carters, who are, oil strike at Hastings. They were -advised to resume work, and if they had not received any -back nay te put in claims for it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2165, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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195BAKERS’ CARTERS ON STRIKE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2165, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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