CONSUMERS' COUNCIL
BILL BEFORE COMMONS
SECOND READING PASSED
LONDON, 30th March. Moving the second reading of the Consumers' Council Bill, which will establish a statutory body of seven members with compulsory powers of ■inquiry in order to enable the Board of Trade, in certain cases, to regulate prices, Mr. W. Graham, president of the board, said that the food, clothing, and fuel which would be included affected half the income of the British people. This, roughly, was £4,000,----000,000 a year. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (Conservative) asked whether the Bill would do anything about price-fixing by foreign rings, and whether it would apply to trade union restrictions which added to the cost of goods. The Bill was an apotheosis of bureaucracy. Sir Herbert Samuel (Liberal) supported the Bill, but said it might be desirable to make it clear that it was not iutendod to apply to individual complaints or to involve an. exceptional examination of any particular undertaking. The Bill was read a second time.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 11
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163CONSUMERS' COUNCIL Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 11
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