After bitter disputes between bakers of Jewish bread and their employers here, the former agreed to drop their demands for higher wages if the shops will reduce the retail price of the loaves.
Hyman Gordon, union leader, explained that “up to 1931 we were getting $70 and $65 a week, then they cut us to $54 and $50. Yet, last summer, the owners told the public that they had to raise the price of fifteen-cent loaves to eighteen cents in order to increase our wages. We got no increase. So now if they go back to the old price we will agree.”
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