THE BAKERS' STRIKE.
BY TELEGRAPH— FRtHS ASSOCIATION.. WELLINGTON, August 2. The Bakers' Strike Committee has decided to continue the present policy of strike pay and picketing. The men are determined to leave the district rather than accept the present conditions, and many of them are doing so, remarked ajnember of the Committee yesterday. Strike pay was again distributed yesterday afternoon. Funds are coming in fairly well. An ad lition*! £6O has been voted this week. Some of the strikers who are working for men who signed the Union agreement are paying £1 a week out of their wages for the support of strikers. The men have great hopes of legislation! being introduced providing an eight hour day in the bakehouse irrespective cf Arbitration Court awards, and also daylight baking. Jit is quite probable that an amendment to secure those boons wiH be moved during the debate on the Arbitration Bill. The police have been informed that a master baker's premises were interfered with on Friday night, some ferment being upset and' water turned on into at trough by means of a hose. The proprietor head noises in the bakehouse. He did not arrive in time to catch the intruder, but was able to minimise the damage through being early on the spot, ]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9157, 3 August 1908, Page 5
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220THE BAKERS' STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9157, 3 August 1908, Page 5
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