Bakers' Union Demands

ID: 6087 ~ Source: New Orleans Item ~ Date: August 22, 1892

This file appears in: Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union

Journeymen Bakers Demands

This file appears in: Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union

Local No. 35: The New Orleans Bakers' Union

Bread-baking is a hard, physically demanding job. Before the Civil War, most bakery owners relied on apprenticeships and enslaved laborers to handle the workload. Postbellum bakery workers inherited a…