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Show ui ' Baking Industry May Be Entirely Revolutionized 1 CHICAGO. April S.-The baking In Idnstry In America may be complexly j revolutionised If qrganlzcd labor car-I car-I rles out Its demands for abolition of J n;bt work, according to leading mas : tor bakers The national headquarters here of ihe Bakers' and Contectlonary Workers' Work-ers' International Cnlon of America has sent an address to every local In the country urging that formal demand de-mand for abolition of work between 11 ( p m and 5 a m. be made when wage ' scales for the year aro presented to I employer on Msy 1. Each local win b permitted to take I such steps as It seems necessary to enforce the demands In vigorously opposing 'ho demands, master bakers assert that 75 per rct of bakers goods Is produced after mid night, that the public demand- freh broad each morning, snd thst th change would greatlv reduce output or necessitate coetly expansion of plants and machinery in either esse, they say, the cost of tho 1. SOO. 000 loaves of bread produeod dally in I hi cago would be Inrresoed to tho con snmer and that other cities probably, would follow the same course. To tbls the union executive board' reptiea lhat similar objections were ad aneed years ago wh'n legislation was Employr thought rhy could nOti do without the dirty, underground bak ericas, but now they would not tt.ink of returning to such condition." BS A A Myrup. treasurer of tho union. '( aak abolition of night work ts a mat ter of hoaltb and Justice to our SO, 00 workers Tbo change la also la f e interest of public health In large cttieo "ft in . pr of 'he porrila tion use bakcr broad. Doctors saj . prevalence of tuberculosis nnd nervous diseases among our craft is duo In larue measure to nlcht work in high temperatures. Most accidents also occur oc-cur at night when the workers are drowsy. "Night work Is prohibited In bak-I bak-I erles of Italy. Sweden, England and other European countries. We appro 'elate the Importance of the change ; and are willing that it be adopted gradually grad-ually until night work Is entirely ellflft-I ellflft-I Inatod. But workers will Insist that ' the demand he granted. They consider con-sider this Issue more important than higher wages or shorter hours at present." pres-ent." 1'nlon executives say night work u.i diM-oniinuod in San Francisco bakeries a year nnd a half ago nnd that the plnn since has been adopted by thirty smaller cities. The controversy contro-versy over night work was started twenty-five years ago. they declare |