THE SUNDAY BAKING QUESTION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2462, 27 November 1886, Page 2

THE SUNDAY BAKING QUESTION

Leon Cltarringfcon, a baker, of BerwickStreet, was summoned at a London Polioe Court, a few days aijo, by Thomaa Ventor« a journeyman baker, for unlawfully delivering or causing to be delivered, certain broad at a house in Carnaby-street, on the Lord's Day. Mr J, T. Grammor, solicitor, conducted the case on behalf of the Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Bakers. The complainant's evidence wm that he and another person bay a man deliver bread at the nouse in question, and afterwards returned to the defendant's shop. The defendant, however, would not come out to talk to them, but the man who had delivered the bread adtpittsd that he was in Mr Oharrington's service, Mr Mansfield dismissed the summons on the ground of lack of direct evidence.' The case, he said, appeared to him to be a trumpery one, got up by a trades union for the purpose of annoying people. !fha Act under which the summons was issued was an old one, and, in his opiniort.iWas very hard that a person should Iw 'pre. ventod from working on seven days in

week if ho wished to do bo, Mr i observed that in consequonce of ijlis actions token by the society, and /thfi : decisions which had been given by -the magistrates, • the master bakers had determined not; tip bake broadoifSuuday, The journeymen worked extremely hard - ■ during the week,;and'th.6y felt that they;. • ought not to lie compelled to labo'r . on'• tho Lord's Da£ " •