THE BAKERS’ MOVEMENT.
To tUo Editor of the THAMES GUARDIAN. Sir, —At the present time, when the bakers of Auckland and here are making a movement to alter the hours of their labour, the opinion of an old master baker may not be out of place. I have carried on the baking business for over 25 years, and nine years of that time in New Zealand, and experience tells me that the sole cause of nearly all the drunkenness amongst the bakers is night work. Look at a journeyman baker ; he is never thoroughly awake, something like an owl hood-winked. How can it he otherwise, when they are engaged about their work from 1G to 18 hours a day? Man was never intended to work by night. Why should bakers be degraded bciow any other trade ? Ot why should we follow old rules in a new country, to pamper the appetites of a few for hot bread. I have taken several men to work in the countiy, where I baked by day only, aud in one mouth I found a slovenly noblerising baker an altered man. In conclusion, I hope the public will give the movement all the support it deserves. —I am, &c., M. B.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 251, 29 July 1872, Page 3
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