Evening star., 1933-08-14
n. R. A. PROTECTION
PLEACONS|DERED|N
BAKERY UNION ROW
Blanket Code Signer Here
Claims Drivers Are MoIest-
ed by Trades Groups.
DEMONSTRATION TODAY
BRINGS AID OF POLICE
Unfair Methods of Getting Trade
Charged to Company by
Business Agent.

Attorneys for the newly-organized
Dutch Baker Boy, Inc, prepared today
to appeal to the National Recovery Ad-
ministration for protection against two
labor unions, which, they declared, have
been molesting the concerns drivers
and distributing literature describing
the bakery as "sweatshop."
Although the bakery is an open
shop" said Paul Hanna of the law
attorneys for the concern, ''it is opera
ting under President Roosevelt's blanket
code and therefore cannot be termed
a 'sWeatShcp. AS matter of fact,
virtually all the employees of the bakery
are stockholders, for it Is a sort of
mutual organization"
Crowd Follows Trucks.
The decision to appeal to the N r.
A. if molestation of the drivers is con-
tinued was made, it was said, after a
crowd of about 40 men gathered at the
bakery early today when the concerns
10 trucks started cut on their routes
The crowd, it was said, shouted threats
at the drivers, later taking to automo-
biles and following the trucks.
One driver reported several men In
automobiles followed him through Sol
diers' Home grounds and forced his
truck from the road.
Informed of the incident, William N
Edwards, manager Of the bakery, re-
quested police protection for the driv-
instructions to all precincts for officers
on all beats to pay particular atten-
tion to the trucks.
Corporation Formed.
The bakery. until today. was an
association of Independent drivers, who
purchased their products from another
concern on a cooperative basis. Re-
Gently, however, it was decided to form
q corporation, with all the original
members Of the association as stock
holders, and set up an Independent
bakery.
Since then, 1t was said. two labor
organizations have attempted to induce
the new bakery to operate under their
supervision.
.Our feeling Is" said Mr.. Hanna,
"that any organization operating un-
der the blanket code, paying decent
wages and working the prescribed
number of hours, is not 'sweatshop.'"
The concern has about dozen en-
ployes, all but two or three OF whom,
Hanna added.
Denies Law Violated.
Charles B. McClosky, business agent
for Bakers Local Union, No. 18, in a
statement to The Star, took full re-
sponsibility for following the Dutch
Baker statesmen, but declared that the
failure of the police to arrest any of
his representatives was evidence that
they had violated no law.
He said he had assigned II men in
six automobiles to follow the Dutch
Baker sales trucks and inform their
customers that they were unfair to
union labor. He said the trouble started
when certain officials of the baking
company, familiar with the routes of
local union bakery, sent their salesmen
tover the same routes in an effort to
take the business away from the union
bakery. He said the union regarded
this as unfair competition and decided
to picket" the trucks. In connection
with a report that one Of the bakery
trucks had been forced off the road In
the Soldiers Home Grounds, he said
that the truck had attempted to crowd
q car occupied by two of his mem