Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 20 | Agree to Arbitrate as Last Resort

AGREE TO ARBITRATE AS LAST RESORT Journeymen Bakers Still Insist In-sist on Demand' for a Day Shift. Arbitration may be resorted to as a means of settling differences between the Journeymen Bakers and Master Bakers-association, Bakers-association, according to Frank Erath, Jr., secretary of the latter organization. Both sides have agreed to arbitrate if a deadlock dead-lock occurs, Mr. Erath said. . Journeymen are insistent in their demands de-mands for a dav shift, while the master bakers are protesting strongly the proposed pro-posed abolition of night baking. "The master bakers insist upon supplying sup-plying fresh bread for their customers, Mr Erath said. "This they cannot do If baking is done in the daytime. it takes ten hours to turn out a batch of bread It cannot he delivered until the day after baking because of this, and it would be one day, or even two days, old when the housewife received It." An agreement has . practically been reached on the matter of wages. Mr. Erath said. However, he declared that if differences of hours are submitted to the arbitration board this body also will submit an award in this matter. Tho executive committee of the master bakers will meet with the executive committee com-mittee of the journeymn bakers Monday evening. According to Mr. Erath, - the committee from the association will submit sub-mit a proposition to the men whereby all bakiDg would be done between 3 a. m. and 11 p. m. Members of the executive committee of the master bakers are Eugene Eu-gene W'ille. H. S. lusher, M. Martinov and Frank Erath. Jr. The master bakers held a meeting last night and heard the report of the executive execu-tive committee, which met with the journeymen.