THE AUSTRALIAN BAKER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 55, 8 June 1916, Page 4

THE AUSTRALIAN BAKER.

|, a _A ustralian lilt's .show that a summar;; mum: hod lias boon adopted m Wolbourne of dealing; with the day-baking j of bread. Householders have percmp ; torily refused to accept the loaves on i delivery, and gone to the bakers, where : night baking has continued. In Syd- : ney the consumer meekly accepted the ! change, and nothing hut stale bread is ! now obtainable, in Melbourne the re- : volt of the consumer was so prononne- : cd that night-baking was re-institn eJ > i i n scores of bakeries, while the day-hak-I i n g carters returned to their estahlish-

I menfcs with thousands of loaves. Some I of the bakehouses had the loaves piled ( up for inspection by the Government as j evidence of the reality of the public s ! strike, and as the public, when it gets roused, .is a quantity that no Government can ignore, the Minister came to the sagacious conclusion that he realK ' must do something. One curious incident happened. r lhe young son ol a unionist went to the baker’s ior the night-made loaf, the baker reminded him t!;a c his father was a unionist. “I , know he is,” said the boy, “but mother! is not, and she runs the house and father, too.” So that, while the bak-j ers, strike against night-baking isnominally settled,, the consumers strike against accepting the strikers’’ bread is growing steadily more aggressive. 1 The public usually,sits down under ;d strike (says the Sydney Telegraph),; and accepts its annoyances and loss ini a spirit of helplessness against the iron hand of the assumed inevitable. In Melbourne the worm lias turned, even at the inconvenience of having to go to : the bakers to take delivery of its bread.