The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-13
BAKERS STAY OUT
Leavenworth Bread Makers and
PrOprietOrs Fuss.
Recognition of the Union Seems.
to Be the Trouble.
EACH ARE OBSTINATE.
Causing LOaves of Union Make
to Be Shipped In.
Owners Say Can't Always Quit
When Clock Strikes Six.
EACH ARE OBSTINATE.

LeaVenworth, Kan. Oct. 13.-The
bakers are still out. Their leaders de-
clare that unless the employers sign a
contract to use union men only the
| members of the newly formed organi-
cation Will not return to work. The
master bakers are equally firm. They
insist that they will not sign such an
agreement This they say is the only
serious objection to the contract offer
ed by the union That it is a fight for
the recognition of the union is the adj
mission of the organizer.
The bakers sent a committee to Kan
sas City to make arrangements for
bread and all who desire to patronize
union made bread will have that privi-
lege.
The master bakers when approached
on the possible settlement CT the strike
all agreed to sign up contract if a
certain Objectionable feature could be
eliminated.
Would you sign up an agreement,
If the clause requiring you to employ
union men only should be stricken
out?" was asked of John McCool.
am willing to sign up for day work
and ten hours. You know we can't
drop our work just when the clock
strikes six. You know the condition
of the sponge or the baking may be so
we can't leave il and the boys would be
Sam Wuerth. when asked If he would
sign a contract with the bakers if the
compulsory clause should be with
drawn, replied:
Yes, 1 will sign up a contract"
wv ould you hire your bakers again?''
"Well, I would not hire them all. l
might hire one or two of them back
again"
Yes. sir" replied Mrs. Alice Schalk-
ers, "I would hire my bakers again"
a ho 81 thaV claim
they worked?"
well did you ever. that's worse
than ever. Now. I'll tell you we were
short on buns and my brother asked
one of the boys to stay and help him
out, and he did, but the other two boys
stayed of their own free will"
1.-The boys will not go back. Mrs.
Schalker, unless the union will be rec
ognized."
then. 1 always tried to make my bak-
ers feel right at home and 1 hate to
see them CO."
National Organizer Herman Ross
stated. when asked if the bakers would
sign up and return to work If con-
tract modifying the union feature
should be drawn up. he said:
mo, the boys will not return to work
unless the union is recognized. You see
we have not put in that contract near
Nv all that usually is placed in the bak
want is recognition of the union.
You see, the boys are satisfied that
the union is a good thing for them
and they can get the benefit Of the In
ternationaI union. They can go any
where and get benefits from the union.
But this is the situation the boys have
been holding off waiting for the master
bakers 1t was not the desire to get
goods shipped in here. We don't be-
Iieve in getting goods from outside; we
ir1dI ri
hut If the master bakers do not sign
IN at once the first shipment of bread
will come up from Kansas City.
I'VE sent a committee down to see
about the bread and it will come. Sew
eral families are living on crackers
rather than eat bread not made by
union bakers.
II ate supper with a man last night
and he said his wife would bake their
own bread.
mo. you can say for the boys that
they won't go back to work unless
their union is recognized"