New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-26
FOR SANITARY Bakeries.
SENATOR WILLIAMS'S BILL CONSlD-
Erred IN COMMITTEE.
LABOR MEN FAVOR IT AS 1T AMELIoRATEs lhH
CONDITION OF EMPLoYEs-CLEANLINEss
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD
TO BE ENFORCED BY Law
EMPLOYERS APPROVE
THE MEASURE.

EMPLOYERS APPROVE
THE MEASURE.
Trenton. Feb. % NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. oi
journeymen bakers from Newark. Jersey Ci'!
and Paterson came here to-day and spoke W
fore the Senate Committee Miscellaneous
Business in favor of Bill No e., introduced ny
Senator Williams Several employing bakers OPP
posed certain sections Of the bill. but In the ha'
they advocated 1t.
The bill prohibits bakery employees from wofh-
ing more than sixty hours week. or an average
Of ten hours for each working day. 1t provinces
that no employe shall be discharged for maxine
a truthful statement as a witness In court OF ~
the Factory Inspector or his deputies. BUILDINGS
must be kept in a proper sanitary condition. as
directed by the Factory Inspector. Hereafter 10
cellar or basement shall be used as bakery,
but those now existing will not be interiereu
with Bakehouses must be kept clean and mo
domestic animal. except cats, shall be allowed
to remain" in a bakery. Violations of this act
may be punished by a fine of not less than @-o
and not more than $50 for the first offence Sec
ond offences are met by double this penalty
with an alternative of ten days imprisonment
and for third offences the penalty is not less thah
$3.50 fine and not more than thirty days impris-
onment.
j. T. Mcdonnell Chairman OF the State FEEDER
alton Of Trades said II appear here in the
name Of organized labor. including the railroad
employees to ask for the passage OF this Dill l
voice the sentiments not only Of the worKlhs
people, but Of all classes In asking this commit
tee to favorably report and recommend the pas
sage Of this humanitarian measure
Mr. Mcdonnell went on to say that the Dill was
one in which all classes deeply interested
the rich as we'll as the poor consumers OF Dreau'
Society at large demanded good sanitary cohu-
lions In bakeshops and protection for the me"
who toll long, killing hours in disease-DreedihS
and unhealthy places. The present conditions
would not and could no. prevail II the general
public knew about them. But at last the IN
iquities of the bakeshop system are becoming
known, and the demand for reform Is universal
and imperative. The object is not 10 inquire
any one but to benefit all The passage OF biii
No 81 Is not opposed by any decent employing
baker in New-Jersey indeed he felt certain
that II the Legislature, after enactlng INTO ID"
this bill will appoint special committee 10 IN
vesticate tho condition OF the New-Jersey bake
shops and the journeymen bakers much oroau-
or and more radical law Will be enacted next
year. The working people and the consumers o.
all classes grateful 10 senator NI''""'S
for introducing this bill.
In the name Of all who buy bread. in the In
terest Of the public health and in behalf OF the
WORKOUT human beings who spend over half
their lives I'm loathsome places. Mr. Mcdonnell
prayed the committee to favorably report the
bill and urge its passage.
This legislation is not new" said Henry
Weismann. secretary Of the lh,crhat 'in,.
Bakers Union. Laws in favor OF sanitary
hakeshops have been passed In France. EngIahd'
Belgium ard Norway. and the same oil pendiih
in the Ncw-Jersey Legislature was enacted 10y
the New-York Legislator" 81 1879 without on
dissenting vote and by the Minnesota lcglsId'-
ure and is pending In the legislature OF
Massachusetts. MARYLAND ana ONO me con
ditions I'm the bakeshops everywhere are identi-
cal Shops kent in "A careless. filthy and thor
oughly unwhoesome fashion are the very NOT
beds Of disease germs OF all descriptions. uah.
gerous not alone to the operative bakrt pu'
also 10 the millions OF bread consumers. There
are no signs now Il an abatement OF this STATE
OF thingI II the Legislative power Is not eA'r-
.,rhc Industrial depression OF the last two or
three wears has Intensified competition among
bakers and -four and bakers supply dealers
and the chc1pr'ss II -four ana oth.S s'"Pie
nr,duc,s used IN bakeries has enabled a great
many peorlc T. start what they call bakery
with very little capital In almost any nook OF
corner IN "A cellar basement, when was heve'
built nor intended as a workshop FOR the pro-
ductinr Of the most necessary fOodstuH OK inc
people As a rule. this class OF bakers employ
cheap class OF labor. the most degenerate among
tho baking craft, green hands from Europe or
a,,,,r.r,icee ,yho nr. satisfied to work any mum
her ~ hours for a plitancc Of wages ana under
conditions VOID II the first essentials OF hygiene
only for the privilege II ekins out pare SUD
slstencc. ,,. 49,
"It is this class Of bakeries over which the
STATE should exercise "A rigid supervision, ana
| their existence and growth is Responsible lo'
what now IL known throughout the country az
| sanitary bakeshop legislation.
4 number OF journeymen described the con,
| ditlon in various bakcshops. which rendered
| necessary this bill. ,,,.-.
| Tbe baking firms represented were the Yurke'
Baking Company. Mangols & schmidt, New
! York Biscuit Company. all q Newark LOUIS
| cnnl,nsrncn for these firms surprised the jour
| ncvmen by the cordial manner In when they
| smoke 81 the salient features Of the measure
| Nr Uu superintendent FOR Mangels Schinid'
| declared frankly that some bakeries In New
| -, ~. nn-. II u nni nnGs nose ID.