Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1909 — BAKERS IDLE IN NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

BAKERS IDLE IN NEW YORK

Bread In the Big City Probably Will be Seven Cents a Loaf. New York, April 16.—With flour up 40 cents a barrel in the local market, and the prospects apparently good for a further rise, New York city ia now facing the possibility of bread at 7 «pnts a loaf. Secretary®. H. Brayer, of the East Side Bakers’ association, says: “You could buy a twenty ounoe loaf of bread on the East Side eight months ago for 4 cents, and now a ten ounen loaf costs at least 5 cants. Fifteen hundred haliers have been thrown out of work by the necessity of retrenchment to meet expenses and 2,000 others in various parts of the city are now without regular employment—the majority with none at all.”