SOUTH AFRICA
PREMIER AND PROFITEERING.
(Per Press Association Copyright.)
(Received April 27, 3 p.m.) CAPETOWN, April 26. In the Assembly, General Smuts, replying in the Profiteering Bill debate, refused to accept a Labour amendment for the discharge of the Bill, arid referring the subject to a Select Committee, with instructions to introduce an amended measure, providing not oniy for the punishment of 'prdfiteers, but for tlie prevention, of profits in excess of people's means, the extension of municipal enterprise, ana the distribution of the necessaries- of life.
General Smuts declared that the' whole country was dead against such/ an extreme measure. He did not. believe in a Socialistic State. State Socialism was already obsolete. It was the Labour members who were behind the times. He was willing to allow the Bill to go to a Select Committee for re-moulding- after Iv-ung read' a. second time, out if it failed to pass tho second reading the Government would consider itself impotent to find _ a remedy, and would make way. for another Government.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9291, 28 April 1920, Page 5
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