The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-30
CONGRESS ACTS TO PREVENT FOOD STRINCENCY; BREAD RIOTS BREAK
 OUT AS CHICAGO FEELS, SHORTAGE

WaSn1nSJOn, ApEII OV-A AC dulAAu- istration food bills were introduced in the House today by Chairman Lever of the agricultural committee. They do not cover price fixing or control of the use of grain for distilling liquor. These subjects will be cover ed in bill to be introduced later.
 The bills introduced today are de- signed to stimulate production, pre- vent hoarding. make for equitable dis tribution, and suspending the law pro hibiting the mixing of flour. They contain provisions to prevent conflict with the antitrust and interstate com merce laws.
 Chicago, April S0-Rioting in the West Side and bread famine in many sections of the city marked the bakers strike in Chicago today. In the ghetto hundreds of strike sym pathixers, many of them women, spoiled hundreds of loaves by throw ing kerosene into shops and bread wagons. Riot calls were sent in and special details of mounted police scat tered the rioters.
 The tremendous significance of the bakers strike, called Saturday, and which has cut off a bread supply esti- mated at 1.500.000 loaves a day, dawned on the city this morning when families dependent on the large bakeries found that they must get along on stale crusts or no bread at all. Groceries and delicatessen stores that had not their own bakeries had no bread, no breakfast rolls, no coffee <>~Y Y~n ing meal had to be abridged.
 The famine in breadstuffs gave con- cern also to governmental authorities and various bodies set desperately to work to bring the bakers back to work.
 According to Sol westerfie1d, head of the Retail Grocers' association, the stocks of four carried by grocers will be exhausted in two days by the rush of housewives who can bake bread.
 The Dig bakers declare that their principal objection to the demands of the bakers union is not the wages asked, but the insistance of the union that all foremen in the bakeries shall be employed oh the approval of the unions and shall be dismissed on de- mand of the men working under them.
 To assure a bread supply for the recruits at the Great Lake naval training station the navy department today authorized the installation of two bake ovens at the station. The ovens will have a combined capacity of 6,oO0 pounds of bread day.
 The majority of the larger down town hotels. whose bakers are mem bers of the Progressive Culinary as- sociation, not allied with the strikers, were not affected.
 Housewives. who hoped to solve the problem by baking their own bread, found that the supply of flour was short ever, at the prevailing high price of $16 a barrel
 Fear that protracted strike would result in actual suffering prompted of strike leaders and representatives Mayor Thompson to call g conference of the bakeries. and hope was ex- pressed that some sort of a settlement would be reached within the next A hours Members of the state board of arbitration are here to offer their services, and agents of the federal government kept closely in touch with the situation.
 New York April 30-Householde of this city were notified today by the large ice companies that the price of ice will be increased 10 cents a hundred pounds from May 1. The increased cost of coal, labor and ser vice is given as the reason for the higher price of ice.
 Neither the Naugatuck Valley Ice Co. the City Ice and Coal Co.,, Housa- tonic Ice Go. or the Sprague Ice and Coal Co. has any intention of raising the price to their household custom CTS. At the offices of these concerns It was said the price would remain as it has been for the last year. 50 ! cents for TOO pounds.