Canadian grocer October-December 1916 . Another Zeppelin Atrocity. —Hungerford, in Pittsburgh Sun. hundreds of men have left the bakerytrade and gone to fight. Their placeshave to be taken by green men. Thelabor situation is so acute that eventhese are demanding and have to havemoney which they could not have gottwo years ago. Labor cost has increasedby a very large per cent. Moreover, youcant keep your men when you have gotthem. Every time we have raised theprice of bread to the public, compelledso to do, our men have been under the. What is happening in the bread market? impression that we a
Canadian grocer October-December 1916 . Another Zeppelin Atrocity. —Hungerford, in Pittsburgh Sun. hundreds of men have left the bakerytrade and gone to fight. Their placeshave to be taken by green men. Thelabor situation is so acute that eventhese are demanding and have to havemoney which they could not have gottwo years ago. Labor cost has increasedby a very large per cent. Moreover, youcant keep your men when you have gotthem. Every time we have raised theprice of bread to the public, compelledso to do, our men have been under the. What is happening in the bread market? impression that we are coining moneyand demanded better wages. They havehad to have it; otherwise they wouldquit, and its hard enough to lose menfor patriotic reasons without losingthem when, at some expense, it is truethey can be kept. Still another reason waa also ad-vanced why bread should be raised inprice. Cost of doing business in suchthings as paper and string as well asminor ingredients used in bread makingis also considerably higher. You know where paper is, said onebaker. Way out of sight, so far asprice goes. People think we do not usemuch paper. We use a great deal. Andwe are paying much more for it. Foreseen Long Ago The rise in price of bread was fore-seen long ago, said a prominent all saw it coming, and had the gen-eral public been aware of the signs ofthe times they must have seen it too. Atthat, Toronto bakers are the last to putup their prices. Montreal and Winnipeghave been higher than Toronto for Chicago, br
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