The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-01
Although flour quotations


 scared in the last few weeks, bread, Rccording to local bakers. is still be- 1ng sold at the usual price.
 This price is cents for loaf which weighs 14 ounces
 At the retail bakeries one can get six loavcs for quarter of dollar At the wholesale houses seven loaves Other sizes of loaves are the two pound variety which sell at three for 25 cents and the pound and a halt Ioaves which retail at four for a quar ter.
 These quotations are standard throughout the city as all the bakeries are affiliated with the Bakers associa- tion, which makes out the price sched- ules.
 But now the price of bread is go- ing up in sympathy with the upward movement on all other foodstuffs which has, reigned since the great European ; conflict started.
 Bakers Will Meet Tonight
 All the boss bakers are to meet to- night in the offices of the Fleishman n Yeast company to decide on what ac- ston the association Is to take resnrd- ing the high price of flour.
 It is predicted that a committee will be appointed to request the city com. miss sioners cn Wednesday morning to allow the bakeries of the city to re- drce the size of the bread loaves from 14 ounces to 12 ounces and thus avoid an increase in price which will still remain at , cents the loaf.
 If, however, the commissioners refuse to allow the reduction of the size of the loaf the boss bakers, it is stated, will increase the price to ' cents the loaf. The bakers stated that they would prefer to have the weight re |. duced.
 The city commissioners have ruled that. the weight of loaf of bread must le one pound when ba.>cd ard ready for sale. However. several months ago when the price of flour went up, the bcsE bakers requested and were grant, ed permission to reduce the weight of a supposedly one pound loaf to 1f ounces, which is at present the stan flard weight of loaf of bread in the City of Birmingham.
 No change in the standard quotation of nickel a loaf has ever been made although the weight of the loaf has steadily decreased.
 Martial Law Needed, Says Shields l- B. Shields, proprietor of the P,..r- less bakery, Was very emphatic re- garding the high prices in the flour market as we'll other foodstuff. He said:
 'sWe have not raised the price of ..( breads we have not reduced the stxe ar weight of the loaf, but we are gOing t0 unless the price of flour goes down. At present we are losing money in making bread.
 The boss bakers are going to meet Tuesday night and appoint committee which will confer with the city commissioners in regard to reduction in the weight of the scent loaf of bread. If the re- tuction is not granted then the price of the loaf will necessarily be raised to point where the ba- ker can show a slight margin of profit.
 This country should be placed under martial law at once and all the foodstuff seized by the gov c1rment. The food barons or pirates should be Imprisoned for taking advantage of the poor people
 ''Th1e talk that war is bridging . on the high prices la the veri~st rot. The United states produces 50 k per cent more than it can consume. Let the EOvernment stop the exc.
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