THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
“UNBLUSHING EFFRONTERY” OF THE SUGAR TRUST. THE DUTY TO BE REPEALED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, July 2a (Received July 29, at 9 a»m.) Mr Hughes announced that he will not have the slightest hesitation in repealing the Customs duty on sugar at the earliest possible moment as a solution of the Queensland sugar trouble. Ho was not speaking for himself alone in making this declaration. Referring to the increased price of sugar, Mr Hughes declared that there were other monopolies in Australia, but none of them had the unblushing effrontery to declare—as the Sugar Company did—their price in the daily papers in this “ callous and indecent fashion.” The people were simply expected to pay and to look pleasant. The Government had imposed a duty of £6 a ton in order to encourage the employment of white labor, not in order to increase the dividends of the Sugar Company. If the strike continues the company will sell their present stocks, which are ample, at the increased rate. But os a result, of such conduct the reason for the imposition of the present duty will cease.
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Evening Star, Issue 14631, 29 July 1911, Page 5
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