Evening star., 1946-06-04
District Bakers Plan
Flour Inventory for
Senate Committee

The baking industry of Washing
ton is making an inventory of -four
on hand, en- route and on order for
the Senate Small Business Com
mittee, Louis A. Speiss, attorney for
the local branch of the American
Bakers Association said today.
The committee is investigating
reports of administrative bungling
and mismanagement" in the distri-
button of food
In the meantime, Charles B. Mo
Closky, business agent of the bakery
employees union, market time on
his threatened work-stoppage dem
onstration to force somebody to do
something to get flour for Wash
ington.'
Session Continues.
The Executive Board of the local
No. 1l8 of the Bakery and Confec-
tionery Workers of America con-
tinued in session this afternoon a.
the locals Office, SGT Ninth street
NV. The board is empowered TO
call a strike or to call the union
Into continuous meeting" if no ac-
ton is obtained in their demand for
flour
The union representatives. did not
try to see Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson about getting -four today
They tried to see him several days
ago, Mr.. McClosky said, and were
| c -,
the departments Production and
Marketing Administration who
tried to put us on merry go-round
sent us to see one man after
another. We don't want that. We
want assurance from the secretary
that We are going to get the flour
that means wages for our members. u
Strike" Deferred.
At the request of Chairman Muir
ray of the Senate Small Business
Committee Mr.. McClosky yesterday
agreed to defer the threatened con-
tinuous meeting while efforts are
made to obtain more -four under a
new Agriculture department plan
announced before the committee
earlier in the day by Secretary
Anderson. The plan is ito lend
bakers flour marked for export to
be repaid to the export pool when
the new crop comes in.
Before a crowd of bakers in the
back of the Senate caucus room
which frequently applauded, Mr..
McClosky described to the commit
tee late yesterday the hardships to
which the local industry had been
reduced.
Senator Murray recalled that Sec
retary of Agriculture Anderson had
announced during the day a new
plan for the Government to lend
mlllers wheat in limited quantities
in areas where they could not buy
enough.
Tells of u. S. Promises.
"Mr. Anderson" declared Mr.. Nc
Closky, said we were to get rs
per cent of our normal flour and
later IS per cent. He could prom
lse us 100 per cent, but if we don t
get any of it, what good will it do?'
The union officials described the
situation here as very serious u
adding it had reached the point
where bakery salesman who walks
into a food store lis just about
mobbed by housewives before he
can distribute his bread"
When it was suggested that Mr.
McClosky try to get more -four
under the new plan, he replied
Who in the Department of Agri-
culture can we talk to and get any
thing but lot of sympathy?"
The chairman agreed that the
administration ought to work out
some program under which the
public will have bread" He promised
the committee would do what Ii
could to relieve the shortage.
Andrew w. Myrup, national re-
search director of the bakers union
said the flour shortage was Nation
wide, adding: "The policy is, after
the world. we come next -