Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 57 | Prefer to be Paid for Work in Bread

PREFER TO BE PAID FOR WORK IN BREAD "Staff of Life" Is More Valuable to Greek Workmen in Some Sections Sec-tions Than Money. (Correspondence of the Associated Press. 1 ATHENS. Oct. 6. The working people iif some sections are asking that their wages be paid in bread, not in money. This is one of tho effects of the war and the blockade of Greek ports, that it has made bread more valuable than money, and has started t he unusual system of bread-wages. While the well-to-do classes have been very prosperous in recent re-cent months, t It e poor have suffered greatly by the blockade of all foodstuffs, principally bread. Famished rhildren and women crowd around the doors of restaurants, res-taurants, seeking bread, rather than money. When money is offered a begjJMr he liardly has use for it, as it wilt riot buy the bread he needs. And as money-wages money-wages did not buy bread, so the working people resorted to tills expedient of asking ask-ing bread-wages. ! The usual supply of wheat and flour conies to Greece and the Balkan countries coun-tries from Bulgaria, Russia and America. But the Russian supply is now cut on by the barrier of the central powers; Bulgaria Bul-garia is considered an enemy, and th" j American supply is cut on by submarines. ! Bread has, t herefore. become the grea t-est t-est luxury. Its use is strictly limited by j hi w. and at the leading hotel 3 one gets ja smalL thin slice at each meal, includ-I includ-I Ing the first breakfast which is solely this one slice. White, bread has sold as hich as SI a pound. The entente blockade s-ent up the price of nil other foodsimTs beyor.d the reach j cf the poor. The rise, in vt-cetabls has i I been 4A per cent; butter. ;.0 per cent; meat. -10 per c-nt. Police regulat ions prevent the s;'Je of meal three da-, s a I week. There m:v sifgar cards as well as Ibred cards, hmitinc each one's use of f-utar and bread. Potatoes hae almost d'.ippeared a:ul ;?re more of a luxury than the finest fruit-