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Show llaWti In l4,uj in. Tliero are 14,000 bakers In Inlon, of whom 0 000 aro foretgnori, mostly Uer-mans. Uer-mans. X'oromen bakers get from fete doll era to cli,ht dollars a week, secon 1 hands from four dollars to fivo dollars a week, third hands from two dollars to throo dollars a week. T ho hours of labor rtngo from twelvo to Cfteen hours a day and on Saturdays from twenty to twenty twen-ty thrco hours. Most of tho small bakers ue.t as their own foremen Tho majority of tho bakehouses are miserable underground cellars, overrun with roaches, mlco and oilier vcnnln. Tho cellars are so 111 tcntllntel and so unhealthy that tho bakers aro subject to n number of sjieclal diseases, all of which may bo communicated to tbo consumers con-sumers of 11 e brtml they moke, for tbey aro mostly ellsoases of tbo skin, an 1 tho linkers In thoso dens, as a rule, woik stark naked from their walats up, and llioro Is generally no accommodation of any Idnl for trarhlng except In the kneading tubs. New tork Itccorder. |