BAKERS' STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9133, 4 July 1908, Page 5

BAKERS' STRIKE.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, July 3. To-day the master bakers say that their position is stronger than it was yesterday, and that a few days should see the end of the trouble, so far as they are concerned. The secretary states that the bakers have rnore than enough third hands available. They merely need a few second hands and a foreman. Two members of the Association have temporarily "pooled" their business. They are working in one bakehouse and are keeping all their customers fully supplied. Delegates at last night's meeting of the Trades and Labour Council were unanimous in supporting r. resolution extending to the bakers on strikafthe sympathy and assistance of the Council. It is stated that several of the speakers referred in appreciative terms to the loyalty of the members of the Union now un strike. They stated that many of the men had refused private offers made by employers of wages higher than the Union was demanding. They had insisted on the terms of tho Union being agreed to by the whole vi the employers before a single member of the Union would go back to work. "The old spirit of unionism was noticeable atj the Trades Council's meeting," states one delegate. "The delegates expressed their detestation of any workers handling goods manufactured by black-leg labour, and they spoke of their personal determination to assist the bakers, even if it went to the extent of urging wharf labourers, seamen, drivers and other unionists handling flour to cease work." The general strike, however, has not got beyond the suggestion stage, and does not seem likely to go further.