REGULATION OF TRADE
INFLUENCE IN COMMONS CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT CRITICISM
LONDON, June 1
Mr. George Riddle, in his presidential address to the Co-operative Movement at Newcastle-on-Tyne, said:
"The House of Commons is fast becoming a place for regulating trade. Merchant princes are not in the lobbies but in the House itself, waiting, watching, and demanding. They are beggars on a grand scale. Grants, subsidies, concessions, and levies might not be irregular, but they are an unhealthy influence on public life. Trade and commerce, in the next financial year, will receive from the public funds £116,000,000 more than in 1926."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 129, 2 June 1936, Page 9
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