Building Codes
Cry Wolf Quotes
I don’t think the public is going to gain anything by forcing the small baker out of business.
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Frank P. Hill, representative of the New York Retail Bakers’ Association. Only date available: 1913.
The rent is very high, and you can’t recent a place above ground in New York city to establish a bakery. If you can’t have a bake shop in a basement in New York City, you can’t have a bake shop here, that is all, unless people will pay prohibitive prices for bread; And we hear a great deal now about the high cost of living.
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Mr. Frank P. Hill, baker.
[The New York Herald noted that the owners claimed the order amounted to] a confiscation of property…
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New York Herald. Only date available: March, 1911.
That same threat was made when the child labor law was passed and not one of the manufacturers moved out.
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Abram I. Elkus, counsel for the Factory Investigating Commission.
