A bread-strike has been called here against the Jewish master bakers to compel a reduction in the price of bread. The strike is a result of the failure of the Jewish bakeries to submit to a demand for a reduction in prices from the radical Jewish groups in the city.
Action was taken at a conference of 16 Jewish labor organizations. A. Nezdin of Arbeiter Ring Branch 156 was chosen chairman of the conference. Acting with him on a committee of seven which submitted the ultimatum to the master bakers are M. Weiner and H. Holskin of the Russian-Polish Verein; Mrs. Sarah Levin of the Chalutzos Pioneer Organization; A. Binkow of the Odesser Verein; Luba Rosen of the Ladies Branch of the S. P., and Mrs. Friedenberg.
It is pointed out in the demand for lower bread prices that bread baked for Jews is still selling at high prices while everything else has dropped in price, including flour. Non-Jewish baked bread, it is pointed out, has long ago been reduced in price.
At a number of bakeries where strike pickets are stationed, fights broke out on Sunday and Monday, but in general a peaceful attempt is made to force reduction in the price of bread.
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