Quote – J.C. Bogart, New York Flour Club (they represented over 80 percent of firms in the flour business). Only date available: 1913.

We would consider it a grave injustice to ourselves as well as to the bakers and the public at large if the bakers in our city were unfairly discriminated against in their struggle for existence either by conditions such as they could not reasonably hope to contend against, or by making it possible for bakers of other localities to determine their business here in their home market by more favorable terms. This, we believe, will be the effect of section 116 of the proposed law, which prohibits the establishment of future cellar bakeries.

Factory Investigating Commission, Second Report, Volume IV, p. 2302.

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