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The danger of the Bakers' Strike is not yet at

an end, as the journeymen bakers seem very reluctant to give up the absolute rule of from 4 o'clock to 4, even in night-shops, where the masters promise to pay at a higher rate for the special work. In this the journeymen seem to us unwise. They may, no doubt, manage to bring the majority of the Loudon masters to their terms, if they can afford to stand out ; but they will certainly lose an out- lying part of the business,—which will not stop because they die- approve it, and which will probably get into other hand?,—per- haps that of female competitors. If the world will pay liberally for new bread at 4 or 5 in the morning, somebody will certainly be found to make it. -