LABOUR POLICY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 170, 30 April 1943, Page 5

LABOUR POLICY

RECOMMENDATION TO CABINET.

EXTENSION OF RATIONING.

(P.A.) "WELLINGTON, April 29. The rationing of honey, matches, syrup, and. boot polish, was recommenced by the Labour Party’s conference" to-day. . The conference also decided-. to recdmme’nd to the Government “that boots and. clothes be supplied to'manual workers at hear the cost price. . • .. T .. ... , ' I,t"seeks .also riioro drastic measures against profiteering, and decided to ask the' Government that the penalties lor profiteeringhnd black marketing bo similar to"those existing in Australia, that the displaying of Price Tribunal orders in shops be more strictly enforced, that prices be displayed mi goods, and that heavier-,penalties, be imposed on persons breaking price regulations. It was recommended that as the atictioneoring system ..was anomalous inside. tfie stabilised price , system, the auctioneering system be abolished, and also that the sale of tools, and household, ' utensils by auctioneers be ahoiished and commission shops be set self iliese goods at - fixed prices. The /Government is. to bp urged to foster the production of synthetic rubber and motor and cycle tyres from local or’imported rubber and substitute motor, f pels. , v v .. .. . Ahpihhr recommendation was that tfie Government secure Die _ benefits obr Gained by “Gierzoiimg of milk and other products, SQ/that private enterprise does not profit by the system. ~ : "The''Government was also recommended to "set up a commission of inquiry, with ' direct representation of public "seryie'es 'thereon, with full pbWers to inquire'into the working and efficiency of State' department's.