WHEAT DUTIES
LABOUR PARTY ACTIVE
The subject of the wheat duties was discussed at length by the Labour Party conference to-day, when the following resolution was carried:— "That a special sub-committee be set up with instructions to investigate and report to the National Executive upon the problems of wheat production, prices, and duties; production, distribution, and price of flour and bread to the consumers, while ensuring standard wages to the wheat farm employees, and an adequate return to the wheat farmers. Also to investigate and report upon primary production and export prices generally, with a view to formulating a policy of stabilisation' of the incomes of the bona fide working farmers engaged in primary production, the National Executive to refer the sub-committee's report, immediately it is available, to the Labour Representation Committee, and tho substance of the report, if approved by the National Executive and a majority of tho Labour Representation Committee, to be included in the party's election manifesto."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 82, 8 April 1931, Page 10
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160WHEAT DUTIES Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 82, 8 April 1931, Page 10
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