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Show i Scale of Wages , Drawn Up and Will Be Presented to Master Bakers ""In a new contract of agreement recently re-cently drawn and indorsed by the Bakery and Confectionery "Workers, local union 13S, a now scalo of wages 3)as been Included and efforts are How being: mado to obtain the signatures signa-tures of tho Master Bakers of Ogdcn to tho new torms. Tho bakers sot forth in .a statc-; statc-; mcnt attached to tho contract that present wages aro Insufficient to- provide pro-vide them with tho proper means of livelihood and call attention to tho fact that the new demands are very modest when tho present cost of living liv-ing is considered. Scalo Provided The scalo provided in the new contract con-tract follows: Bench or machino workers shall not receive less than 536 a week. D'oughmixcrs and oven-men oven-men not less than $40 a week. Foremen Fore-men not less than ?42 a week. Job-, bors not less than $1 an hour. Apprentices Ap-prentices to be paid $1S a week for the first six months, for tho second six months 524, for the second year $30 and at tho end of tho third year, if qualified, shall become a journeyman. journey-man. All overtime shall be paid at tho rate of time and 'one-half. Workers Work-ers not to bo allowed to work more than two hours a day overtime. It is stated in tho contract that the scale shall go into effect May 1, and I a ii u. n (--uiiuiiuu in uiicui. iui uuu jn. Secretary's Statement In tho statement which accompanied accom-panied tho contract tho union bakers bak-ers glvo the following explanation of their present position. "The bakers of Ogden aro very modest in their demands as is shown in our contract of agreement. Six dollars a day is not very high wages at the present time. We arc protecting pro-tecting tho public from buying bread made under unsanitary conditions by trying to do the b&king in tho daytime." day-time." . "When a man has to work nights and sleep during the day ho is not fit to do eight hours of hard work In 1 a, hot bakery- We also have a label on every loaf of bread made in union un-ion shops. Bread made in non-un- ion shops contains no label." "The officers of local union 13S arc hoping to be successful in signing up 1 tlils agreement with the Master Bak ers of Ogden. Everything so far points to success. Six out of ten j bakeries have signed." "We aro trying to. do this In a peaceful way without the necessity of a- 3trlke, but if we have to cse a strike as a weapon to get better con-H con-H dltlons we will have the support of W every union in the city." j "The .following are tho officers: II. 1 Schoutcn, president; -J. Vernleuvwe, I vice president; Y. Z. Rookhuyzon, J financial secretary and treasuror. j (SIgnel) Y. 52. Rookhuyzon. |