This short weight affects everything that is sold over the counter. There is scandalous profiteering in vegetables, Cauliflowers were sold a farthing each at Market Drayton Vegetable Market recently and so great was the quantity that thousands remained unsold. Prices for cauliflowers at Covent Garden fon Monday were from 2/> to 3/~ per dozen. "Cauliflowers! Yes, plenty of them and first-class vexed tables, too, at two for sixpence," said & City retailer. "There glut of all kinds of vegetables, and the public have not had them so ply for a long time. I was paying 10/~ a bushel for beans fortnight ago. T am obtaining them today at 4/-. much cheaper ight age Jcharges were not so high." Yet if you go into a shop you will be Jcharged 6d for a cauliflower of any. [decent size and 34 if it is a smaller aay revelling, bread be-price.
alte ait bakers inthe London Jo therefore propose, if you approve, frealwho are selling below the asvoe!
Price to. send their names and {helt selling prices to the Council wi view to this information being ma a signed by Lord wailable. to. consumers
Council asked that all bakers who: Bradbury' The Food were willing to sell bread at prices Below the amount fixed by the two London Bakers' Associations—the Incorporated Society of Principal Wholesale and Retail Bakers, It and the London Master Bakers' and Confectioners' Protection Society should sent their mames and a dresses, with their selling prices The Secretary, Food Council, 3 Sanctuary Buildings, Gt. Smith Street, London. S. W.
Defeat of the Bakers fan hour the Bakers had capitulated and issued the following notice:—"*Following. upon, the recommendation ofthe Incorporated Society of Principal Gnolesale and. Retail Bakers, bed Made at esting held on October ice of four now having fallen tack, the price of bread will ut was made: rhe London Marter Bakers and Con fectonars' Protection Society ised to reduce the per dubs lost on Monday next, Oct 'They' do not, however, take thi action with any graciousness because they issued statement after statement abusing everybody concerned, including the Food Council, housewives, the public, the pre fact everybody' whom they thought was hostile to their high! Prices. They are still more annoyed that some of the Or wich as. the Ca-operative Societ have lowered their price to 88d as they say they can get a good profit coven at this figure.
So" much "for bread. All the other staple -commodities are now to be taken one after the other and the public are quite ready to. back the Food "Council in any' action which may be taken. They are also 1 Jeady to support it in, its denuneia-Bons of the short weight which is [with less than two or three hundred per cent. profit:
"The coal dealers of course have contributed very much to public!
rentment because they have. Fun their prices again although the /pit-head charges have remained just me. It will be pleasure to the Minister of Mines take them in hand, but he does not seem tov poteene quite enough driving force. Meantime unless the prices! jate forced down, it is quite clear that. the public will in many cases have to. submit to considerable convenience owing "to the fend y|between the producers and the retailers. Then the price of milk fam been fixed for the greater pert jof the country but not for all, and there are clea indications of coming trouble." For instance a scheme the hold-up of the milk supply, ws propounded at a meeting of farmers' jat Stalmine (midway between Fleet-wood and Blackpool), the centre of fin important "dairy" area of the and a district from which supplied to various parte of Eancashire, on Saturday. Mer WF. Moorhouse, the joint Lancashire County Secretary of the National Farmers' Union, said that what the Union wanted the farmers to do was pay for every cow they had to establish a Safeguard fund.
could "then simultaneously hold their milk from the dairy Then, and do. whatever" they liked frith ity and' the Union would Them the difference which they hed Tost by not selling thee milk. In \24 hours, he predicted, the country would be in such a state that the Tanners' could fix any" price: they ited on their milk lusterd of bare jing to sell it at present ridiculous price of 1¥2d per gallon. The Butchers had a union, he said, which had done much the same ti fix their own prices, and he dd not see why the farmers should not) follow their Jead.
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