The New York herald., 1875-10-17
THE BAKERS CONVENTION.

MEETING OF THE FRER AND ACCEPTED BAKERS
NO MORE BREAD TO BE BAKED ON SUNDAY
THE WHITE SLAVES WHO WORK ONE HUN
DRIED AND THIRTY HOURS WEEK.
Last evening the journcymen bakers Of this city held
a meeting at Military Hall in the Bowery, pur-
suant to call from the trade in general to devise
measures whereby bakers should not be compelled to
work during Sunday morning and night, is the
case As public body bakers very seldom heard of
yet the trade represented in this city and Brooklyn
by 5000 journeymen and apprentices, among whom
are French German, Irish, Scotch and English
workingmen. Bakers earn from S5 to $50 week, the
smaller having board added to 1t In the seven
days Of the week there but 16s hours and Of this
time the bakers work from los hours he minmum) to
$50 hours (the maximum But the bakers chiefly
complain OF having 70 work on Sunday from nine or
eleven O'CLOCK in the morning until the
same hours on Monday morning. so that, in fact
IL true that they work eighteen out OF every twenty
four hours in each day There are fifty houses IN New
York that make French bread which is desirable at
the morning breakfasts in the dwellings OF the wealthy
the tables Of the fashionable restaurants These
French bakeries the most inexorable in their do
mands for the labor OF their bakers and Is TO these
and the German baker shops that the journeymen I'M
pute the long hours and the disregard of the Sabbath
According to the statements made last evening at the
meeting in Military Hall, there eight grand d.
visions Of the Order Of Accepted Bakers-one in New
York. in Brooklyn, one in Newark, n. j. one in Al
bany in Troy, in New Haven and two in Boston
The Grand Master OF the bakers organization is Will
lam j. Giniven Many of the bakers work for
Sl1 week, only SO of which are paid in cash, even
though the baker be married man. The remaining So
are put down the account of board-the board
sstng Of two meals each twenty four hours and the
meals comprise only warm bread and coffee
in the majority Of bakeries 4 few
man, Mr.. John W. Bynen, the Bakers Guard, target
company, marched down the Bowery and saluted the
Bakers, Bakers Convention ana in turn they were
Military Hall The chairman having stated the object
OF the meeting the late Grand Master, Mr. Samuel
Stirrt addressed the Convention He stated that the
Sabbath was acknowledged and accepted by all Chris
tians day of rest but for the ourneymen bakers IL
was not day of rest The brethern OF his trade had to
night without intermssion. In fact the work of the
bakers, he said, is
NOTHING BUT PERPETUAL NOTION
The speaker believed that good bread could be fur
nished TO the people of New York without the
sity OF the bakers working on Sunday In the great
city Of London which possesses civilization high
as ours, the bakers did not work on Sunday but
go to work at three O'Clock Monday
morning; and in Ireland the baker only
worked in the day time and enjoyed his nights to
himself In Scotland the public find no Inconvenience,
because the bakers have their Sabbath for worship and
rest and, in fact the speaker did not see see why
work at all Sunday AS II was
now, man working On bake shop
eighteen out Of twenty four hours has time at all
for mental, moral or social improvement, and the
poyer who expects his workingmen TO be faithful
honest under such circumstances expects mpossi-
bty. AT this juncture Mr.. Isaac Hunter, the Secre
tary, read number of resolutions embodyng the senti
ments OF the Convention the Sunday question,
the principal point OF which that the bakers de-
clared to be lawful and tar to 90 to work at ten
O'Clock Sunday evening, and not before. These
olutions unanimously adopted and the Convention
also decided to appoint committee to confer
with the boss bakers in order that some proper
understanding might be arrived at tending better
observance of the Sabbath the of the employer
and the employed. Addresses we're made by Mr. Peter
Miller Mr.. Alexander Lang Mr.. William Dean and
others, after which the Convention adjourned.