London, Jan, 21.
'The perennial troubles of the GBeltish farmer wore ventilated toy wday at the annual meeting of the National Tanners' Union it Whitey Shall Place, "Among the many resolution ears ed was a decision to appoint a subcommittee to consider' the recommendations of the Mac! mic, report "in its. special agricultural problems. The mover!
the resolution argued that the present world system of, exchange!
lad completely broken down with the result that one part of the world periencing, all the symptoms of d finite want.
Sulfolk farmer spoke of the imminent financial collapse sot the arable Zaymer "the mainstay of the Eastern Counties) and that pressure should be brought ta bear upon the Government to take immediate steps in order to. bring, yelief to the cereal producers, 'A farmer from Gloucestershire eclaved that unless something could done before the end of Septem ber the bulk of the land still remaining under the plough would be oreed! out of cultivation altogether. This declaration yas drafted in the form of a resolution and unanimoussly adopted.
-One of the representatives of the Farmers' Union, who is at present] taking part in the negotiations with the Government in connection with the Wheat quota scheme, declared that the details of the plan, in fav ay they have now been developed, ave likely to be more workable! than the proposals originally put} forward, He urged that although' the farmers would prefer assistance a different form he was convineed that in the present industrial crisis they would not be justified any assistance which might soming usa palliative in general disastrous scheme of 'Meanwhile, arrangements fo completing by the various commit tees of the work left over from the Round 'Table discussions in London, fare' being mace and the British] members of the Committees are expected "to arrive India during} Jnext week. Lord Willingdon, the vVieeroy, has issued invitations the Indian members of the Cent mittee, over which he is to preside, to meet at New Delhi on January] 28 and two new members, Sir Zulfiquan Ah Khan and Mir. C. Y. Ghintamani, shave been added t6 certain amount of hin-Jdrance to the Committees' work ig likely to result by the possible] refusal" of some sections of the Indian public to ce-operate "in this connection, the executive of the Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce, after a lengthy discussion whether Jor not to ce-operate with the Committees, have addressed a letter to} the Viceroy. "Although the con tents ofthe letter are not divulged, presumed that the Federation expresses its inability. to ce-operate] with the committees in view of the conditions prevailing in India and fse of the several ordinances. promulgated recently to check the} urged] movement, AL the -opening of the Winter session of the ian Legislative Assembly on Willingd corey, in. briefly January 23," Lord
revie Seal situation the country, emphasised the necessity: for the continuance of the smergeney measures so Tong ax the illegal activities of the Congress continued, He declared that. the economic situation in the country wag sound and healthy, and. the cotton mille Were expanding and working with w fair margin of profit A conference of Muslins held Lucknow decided against_participa-ion in the work of the Committees tunless their demands were met.
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