THE BAKERS’ STRIKE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 406, 4 July 1908, Page 3

THE BAKERS’ STRIKE.

An Offer From Melbourne. Wellington, Thursday. Matters in connection with the bakers’ strike appear to be unchanged. The citations against the strikers have been issued by the Labour Department. They total forty-one or forty-two (including one against Mr Andrew Collins). They have all been lodged with the Clerk of Awards at the Supreme Court. So far as the Department is concerned its formal duty for the present is finished, but the officers will not cease in their efforts to get the parties to adopt a modus vivendi. Mr Kellow (President ot the Master Bakers’ Association received a cable message from the Melbourne Master Bakers’ Association, offering the loan of machinery free of cost if the Wellington employers will pay freight to and fro. The machinery, says Mr Kellow, would enable the master bakers to manage with the hands at their disposal. Now, however, it is hoped that it will not be necessary to take advantage of this Melbourne offer, Mr Kellow has been reinforced and hopes to produce something like his ordinary supply to-morrow. Other employers, he says, are expecting to get their ovens going fairly well very soon.

Neither masters nor men have yielded at all in reference .to the strike. The employers say they are gradually getting labour, and it is certain that the shortage of bread is not by any means acute.