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Show Bread at 8 Cents Best Offer of Bakers B Washington, Sept. 1. Tho 5-cont H war loaf is up to tho American peo- They are forced to buck tremend- J ous opposition organized by the mast- j cr bakers. The people have experts J on their bide. Tho bakers appear BBH to have the food administration on H But tho food administration will H liclp to this extent In pitiless pub- B Hetty of actual costs of bread pro- J ductlon. Makers' profits are not to H ho fixed by Hoover, for tho present, H at least. The food administration's J .bakers' committee lias announced that the best tho housewife can hope B for it a slxteen-ounce loaf for 8 cents. K Muster bakers here, conducting tho B fight against the cheaper loaf, do- E -clare "Tliero Is absolutely no chanco B for a f-ccut loaf witli wheat at Agricultural experts and consum- pflBpfl -tin' representatives on the wheat price fixing committee say that they PBBfB tiKreed to the $2.20 prlco only upon PBBBl sissurauccs of farmers' ropresenta- PBapB . lives that a fourtecu-ounco loaf Is ! jjiractlcablo with wheat at that flg- PBapH vure. They wero Joined by tho two PBHHb -organized labor lepreseutatives, who battled against a J2.50 prlco set by producers. PHBpH Tho case of the G-cont fourteen- j ounce loaf was fully discussed by tha H iirlcu committee, whose story is hero K told for the first time. At tho be- PBHHH clnnlng of the discussion It developed Ihut thu $2. GO members wore CuarltM PBBfBt J. Barrett, president Farmers' union, PBftflf Georgia; Kdward F. I. add, president pBBpBJ Kurt Dakota Agricultural college; PBBVH J. W. Shorthill, secretary national PBapBrn council of Farmers' Co-oporatlve as- BBBBBV bociatlou, Nebraska, and N, J. ff "Waters, president Kansas State Agri-BBHBBj Agri-BBHBBj J James W. Sullivan, American Fed- J eratlon of Labor representative, and J William N. Doak, vlco president ! Tralnmon's Brotherhood, stood out H or I""""""" Chairman Garfield was classed as a 52.10 advocate; L. J. Taber, Master hbh Ohio Orange, for $2.30; Frank W. PBBfBM Taussig, tho economist, also $2.10, PlBBBBJ and Kugono Funk, president National B Corn association, Dloomlngton, 111., H for H ThcodoroN. Vail, president Amori- HH an Telegraph and Telephone com- H yany, -was primarily responsible for H tho $2.20 final price. lie appealed to B tbo members to get together when a bVbVbVbVbV bVbVbVbVbM deadlock seemed inevitable, President Wilson having asked the board to hand in a unanimous decision. The consumers' representatives Btood out until Just before the last for $2.17. Agricultural department experts presented figures showing tho average aver-age cost of producing wheat on tho farm Is $1.71 per bushel. |