New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-02
BAKERS STRIKE SPREADS
Two Thousand More Expected to
Quit Work To-day.
ASK MORE PAY: NINE HOURS
Big Hotels and Restaurants Feel
a Bread Fam:ne-Bosses
Surprised

A bread famine existed In spots through
out the city yesterday on account OF the
strike of the bakers in the large bakeries,
which began on Saturday and was ex-
tended throughout the greater city. Jersey
City, Hoboken and Yonkers yesterday
More than six thousand bakers were out
Yesterday and two thousand more are e2-
pected 20 quit work to-day.
The strike affected some of the large
hotels. including the Wsldorf-Astoria. the
Astor and the Belmont, whose bakers. II
was announced by the strike committee,
went on strike. and many restaurants had
no bread yesterday morning for their
patrons. Tho strikers At meeting yester-
day al the Labor Temple, saith street and
Second avenue. appointed committees to
watch bakeries affected by the strike.
Secretary August Gan5er Of Local No.
of the Bakers and Confectioners' Interna-
tionaI Union, under whose auspices the
strike was called, said that the bakeries Of
the following firms. among others. are af-
fected by the strike:
The FIeischmdnn Company. at Sist street
and East End avenue: the Cushman Com
pany's 12sth street bakery and four Of its
other bakeries; Rockweir5 bakery, No. 42s
East 18th street; Whites bakery, No =
Catherine street: Towards bakery Al 45th
street and Sixth avenue, and the Gr?st
bakery, az Second avenue and Ist street
He also said that the H1ldebrand and the
Schultz and one OF two of the large
bakeries in Brooklyn were involved in the
strike.
The strike in Yonkers. where four hum
dred bakers are out, Is in charge OF Inter
national Organizer Charles Inland, of the
union In some OF the large bakeries in
New York 1t was admitted that the en-
ployers were taken unawares. IL was
stated at the FIeischmann bakery that
while there was some bread, the company
was unable to supply all the restaurants
with their regular supply yesterday morn
ing Mr. Fleischniann said he expected
that matters will be better to-day No
meeting of the employers had been held
over the strike and he hardly thought
meeting would be necessary. but he said il
was likely that a statement would be issued
to-day giving the employers side OF the
trouble. The strike is for the uine-hour
workday and 81 a day increase in wages
but the closed shop, he said, was what was
really wanted
I'VE have always been willing 70 arbi-
trate," said Mfr. F'leischmann. but We do
not consider the open or closed shop arbf-
trable. The real demand is the closed shop,
as the men we're satisfied with the wages
and conditions. but while we do not care
whether the men belong to a union or not
will not put ourselves in the hands of
the union
For refusing to move from the vicinity
of Fleischmann's bakery, at S1st street and
East End avenue, When told 70 do so last
evening" Mrs. Antonio Meissner of No. 900
East S15t street. and Henry Imbush. d
baker. of the same address, were fined 81
each in Night Court last night by Magis-
trate Herman. Policemen Humbuttel and
Seifert, of the East ssth street station, said
that last night they found about fifty
strikers doing picket duty about the store.
They ordered them TO move from the cor
ner All moved but Mrs. Meissner. who
is the wife of a striking baker. and I'm
bush tarried to speak to a baker who was
not striking.
A strike of the bakers in the large
bread bakery of Probst & Schumacher. in
Howard street, near Bedford avenue,
Williamsburg. yesterday afternoon caused
large number of patroImen TO be hustled
out from the CIymer street sta ton. The
bakers held meeting in the morning in
the Labor Lyceum and decided 10 go out
on strike. The firm. which is the largest
in Brooklyn. was taken entirely by sur
prise II employs nearly fifty bakers at
the ovens alone, and OF these more than
one-half went on strike. 1t was because
of the refusal of the others TO join them
that trouble seemed imminent, and il was
thought necessary 10 have patrolmen on
hand Last night the strike was settled.
There were strikes in other large bakeries,
about one hundred and fifty men going
out. but in nearly every case the trouble
was settled Many of the smaller boss
bakers went TO the Labor Lyceum and
there signed the agreement