New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Jewish Bakers
Issue Defiance
To Unter1nye1'
Union Reopens Store He Or.
dered Closed, and Mem
bers Declare He Can't
Do Anything About 1t
Case to Go to Grand Jury
Conspiracy to Drive En-
ployer Out of Business by
UnderscIling Is Charged

The Jewish Bakers Union decided
yesterday 70 come to grips in the
criminal courts with Samuel Unter-
myer, chief counsel for the Lockwood
committee. over his demand. made on
Friday, that the union proceed immcd
ately to close the bakery il is conduct
ing at 81 Avenue c for the alleged pur-
pose of putting the adjoining bakery Of
Max Schlesnger out of business
Because Of the fact that all Jewish
bakeries we're closed on Saturday, the
union shop did not operate on that day.
But yesterday morning, III accordance
with a decision made on Saturday
afternoon at meeting in the union
headquarters, at 159 Rivington Street,
the bakery was reopened and did busi-
ness throughout the day
Case VIII Go Before Grand Jury
As a result. it was learned definitely,
Mr.. untermyer, in his capacity as
Deputy Attorney General, will go be-
lore the next grand jury, which will be
convened June 3, and ask that body to
return indictments against the officials
and a number Of the members of the
union, charging them with conspiracy
Reopenlng of the bakery was in open
defiance of Mr.. Untermyeg and his IN
timatlon that criminal proceedings
would be instituted should the union
fail to abandon operation of it forth
with
"Not only did the union reopen the
shop, but some Of its members stood
about in. front making disparagng re-
marks about MI. Untermyer and the
Lockwood committee said NJ. Schles-
niger. They said that they didn't
care about the committee or Mr.. Inter
myer, and that neither could do any
thing about it,,
Samuel Krell, a member of the
unions executive committee, who in
IN charge Of the bakery, was quoted as
saying that "the union has Just as
much right as anybody else to run a
cooperative store"
I'VE are prepared, through our at
torney. Morris Hillquit to take the
case to the highest courts In the event
criminal proceedings are begun against
u.s. he said.
Efforts to reach Mr.. Hillqult for
statement were unsuccessful
Baker Fired Union Workers
Evidence produced against the union
in the Lockwood committee proceed
ings was that Mr.. Schlesinger incurred
its enmity by his action in discharginc
his eight union employees and doing
all his work of bread-baking him
self, that he thereafter cut the price
OF bread from to 6 cents a loaf and
was able to make greater profits be-
cause he had no high wages to pay,
and that the union opened the rival
shop and sold bread at cents loaf
In order to put his bakery out Of
business.
Other alleged facts in the possession
OF Mr. Untermyer are that the union
sale of bread has been at loss and
that the organization raised a fund of
$4,000 IN order to accomplish its pur-
pose. There is said to be consid derable
documentary evidence in support of
these charges, including the minutes
of union meetings.
When Mr.. Untermyer warned the
union heads on Friday to close the
shop he gave them to understand that
even this action would not make them
immune from objection to criminal
However, there was an
Inference to be drawn from his
language Of the occasion that such
action might not be taken if they com
piled with his demand
Their failure TO do so, it was learned
yesterday, has forfeited any chance of
escape from demand for grand Jury
indictments. These will be asked even
should the union decide later to close
the shop.