BAKERS’ UNIONS CONFER.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1921, Page 5

BAKERS’ UNIONS CONFER.

ABOLITION OF NIGHT BAKING,

A PROPOSED BILL.

Christchurch, Sept. 21. At the Dominion conference of Bakers’ and Pastry Cooks’ Unions, it was decided that a Dominion Federated Association of Bakers and Pastry Cooks be formed.

A draft of the Factories Act Amendment Bill was considered and agreed to. The Bill provided for the prohibition of night working hours in bakehouses, which were defined as “any building or place in which any article of food is baked for sale for human consumption.” Clause 3 provided that no person, male or female, whether h© or she is or is not working on his or her account, or behalf, or for hire or reward, either directly or indirectly, shall make or bake bread or cakes of any description for trade or sale except between the hours of 0 a.m. and 6 p.m. The provision is not to apply to ihe making of dough. It was also provided that no Sunday work bo allowed, and that no bread shall be sold or delivered less than twelve hours’ old.

It was decided to wait on the Minister for Labor towards the end of the week and place the Bill before him.

It was decided that the conference request the Auckland and Wellington unions to take the initiative in organising the workers in the biscuit-making and confectionery trades in their respective cities.