| Show flOUR DOWN DOMN BREAD STILL lICHT EIGHT V BaKers Balters as Yet MaKe MaRe No Concessions Concessions Con Con- cessions to Falling FaIling Price of Raw Material While flour reached a price of a barie barrel wholesale for high patent and d 7 a barrel for other grades during a squeeze that was given th tb market when the tho May wheat corner was was closed and it can now be bought at prices ranging from to a a. barrel wholesale the loaves of bread that are pu put putout out by the bakers of Salt Lake have not been increased In weight a a. fraction of an ounce They were diminished diminished diminished di di- speedily enough when wheat and flour dour prices soared While as a matter of fact the bakers are getting their supplies at much less les cost than they were rere during the wheat squeeze caused by J. J A. A Patten and his corner a and aid d flour as a natural and inevitable consequence reached an ex ex- high price the bakers are not giving the public the advantage e of the he return to normal near-normal prices and conditions The Tho need for fol- legislation that would fix ix the wei weight ht of loaves of bread offered offered of of- ered for sale was shown by byTHE THE TEL TEL- r RA I which exposed the short wel weight eight ht methods of the bakers some some Borne time timea a ago o. o It was then shown hown that there is great reat discrepancy between the weights of f the tho output of various bakeries some of f the loaves falling to a fraction more than han eleven ounces while oth others rs weighed from two to three ounces more An ordinance that would regulate regu- regu late ate so far as possible the wei weight ht of bread or that would compel bakers to label every loaf with the name of the manufacturer and the weight of the read breal was advocated in the he ho city council coun- coun cil il at one time and such an ordinances ordinance is s now in in the hands of the city attorney at at- torney orney in co course rM rao of preparation Making Up Losses I am frank to admit said one baker aker who conducts a lar large e wholesale and nd retail establishment that we have not lot increased the tIle wei weight ht of our loaves oa es because we cannot afford to do it We Wo have lave not given ien an order to the bakers to o make the loaves a fraction of an ounce larger than than they were before Vo Wo were caught by the squeeze on flour our but carried our consumers until we were almost forced to the tho wall W We Wo e have lavo not increased the wei weight ht of read bread Bakers declare that they are arc not at nt fault ault because the loaves arc of light wei weight ht They attempt to shoulder the blame lame over to the retailers particularly the ho grocers who handle bakers' bakers bread breau Nearly all an of the bakers of the tho city eity sell Fen to the grocers at the tho rate rata of twenty- twenty eight ight loaves fot 1 The grocers delare de- de clare lare dare the tho bakers are the ones who are areo areto areto to o blame blame- They d demand mand twenty twenty eight eight loaves for or 1 lin in in order that they m may y make mate a profit of 40 per cent on e every ery ry dollar ollar invested It is declared that the grocers have hae a combination to force the he bakers to sell them at that price One baker whose bread has a wide r reputation rep rep- p tation delivers ers but twenty twenty five five loaves for or 1 but takes takes back back stale bread brad thus brin bringing in the grocers grocers' profits to about the he same figure that they make on other ther kinds of bread brend Make Mako Money in Los Angeles The bakers in Lo Los Angeles have found no difficulty in meeting with the ho r requirements 0 of the tho city ordinance h was recently enacted there which compels them to label the tho wei weight ht of f every loaf on the Ip and f and also to give ive the name of the manufacturer BaKers Jakers in that city are l elJin selling to the tho retail trade double loaves Olver weighIng weigh weigh- Ing ng full two thirty ounces for 10 cents They hev are making no complaint when required re- re to put pitt on the thA market for 5 cents a n loaf weighing full fourteen ounce With flour at ut 0 0 a It barrel and with making makin cost COt at 3 3 a barrel a leading lead lead- ing ng Los Ios Angeles baker declared he hI could ronld make two-pound two I loaves 01 fI at ata ata a profit which h he calculated he lie was aying 1050 for the tho bread and selling sell sell- ing ng it at iii 14 H which wa was enough But Bat Buthis this his was with flour at n a much higher hiher price rice o than at lit present in in Salt Lake and with the loaves also alto much larger t r. r Salt falt Lake linkers bakers are arc making loaves of fourteen ounces when they weigh that much and with flour considerably con on cheaper than it is quoted in inO Ij O Lbs s Angeles and at the same tune time declare de le dare clare that they cannot annat make mak a It living h One Ono barrel of ot flour made mad into bread will ill sell for 16 retail with the cost ost of making the same as in in Los LOll An Angeles el 3 or a total cost of |
