PRICE FIXING.
Mr. Fadden also claimed that the power invested in the Price Fixing Commissioner (Professor Copland) was being used to im lement a major policy of control over industry instead of-fixing prices to harmonise with Treasury and taxation policy as budgeted by the- Government and ap-1 proved, by Parliament. ! Mr. Curtm. replied with an offer of an indepen-:i dent tribunal to report on the work of the Prices Commissioner. ■ • • •• . .'
In addition the Opposition criticised the Government's handling of the coal industry, the clothes rationing scale, and its timidity in dealing with the liquor question. Newspapers also have taken a more critical note than formerly, evidently still resentful of the way the < Government allowed Departments to interfere with ■ Press freedom. The newspapers have embarrassed the Government by their successful and popular .campaigns for more pay and less taxation for tHe fighting forces. They have also .demanded swift . action against the dangerous growth of black markets, particularly in foodstuffs; and against abuses of' liquor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 4
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163PRICE FIXING. Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 4
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