United labor bulletin., 1914-04-25
AVOID TRUST BREAD BY
INSISTING ON THE LABEL
LABEL DEPARTMENT A. F. OF L
SENDS OUT STRONG APPEAL.
Bread Trust Trying to Crush Out the
Bakery Workers Union So the Pub
lie Can Be More Easily Buncoed.

The following circular letter is being
sent out by the Union Label Trades
Department of the American Federation
of Labor to all organizations in the
United States and should receive the at
tention of every union man and woman ::
"To Organized Labor Everywhere,
Greeting-The Union Label Trades De-
jartment again deems it its duty to ac-
quaint organized labor throughout the
land with the fact that during the past
three years one of our affiliated sister
organizations, the Bakery and Confec-
tionery Workers international Union of
America, has carried on valiant battle
for the thorough unionization of the
workers of the baking industry
Their efforts in particular were di-
rected against the great non-union bak-
ing establishments of what is now gen.
orally known as the bread trust, which
is composed on the one hand of the big
interests of the Ward Bread Baking
Company of New York, Pittsburg,
Cleveland, Providence, Boston and other
cities, and on the other hand of the
General Baking Company, which con-
trolls large baking plants in practically
every city throughout the country.
"The non-union brands of bread manu-
factured by these trust concerns are be-
ing brought into the market under diff
feernt names, foremost among them,
however, being the following: Tip Top,
Pan Dandy, Butter Krust and Nifty
nice.
Every one of these brands is abso-
lutely unfair to organized labor as long
as they do not bear the union label OF
the organized Bakery Workers.
'Tn addressing this communication to
you the Union Label Trades Department
again desires to bring home to all or
ganized workers everywhere the fact
that our organized fellow-workers in the
baking Industry are in need of your un-
divided support if their organization is
not to be crushed by the monopoles
which we have named above
Your insistent demand for the union
label of the Bakery Workers on every
loaf of bread that you buy is the only
thing asked of you individually, and that
is the greatest help that you can render
the organized bakers.
"As an organization you can most eli
fectively assist them in their light Tor
the maintenance of their organization by
electing committee, whose duty 1t shall
be to seek to aid in the increase of the
sale of union bread in your locality:
YOUR committee ought to work for its
introduction by assisting in establishing
a local union of Bakery Workers. The
Bakery Workers are not asking anything
of you that might demand financial
sacrifice on your part. All they ask
for is your moral support and assist
ance The Union Label Trades Depart
ment now joins them in their request
and urges upon you the most serious
consideration of the same.
Trusting that the purpose OF this
communication will be appreciated by all
of those to whom it has been addressed,
and that it will bring about a more thor,
ough and extended patronage of bread
and bakery goods that bear the union
label of the Bakery and Confectionery
Workers international Union of Ameri-
ca. I beg to remain, fraternally yours,
THOMAS +. TRACY,
"Secretary-T Urea surer"