CANADIAN INDUSTRIES
SEARCHING INQUIRY ORDERED Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright, OTTAWA, February 2. The House of Commons on Friday established the machinery for the most sweeping parliainentary inquiry into the industrial conditions ever attempted in Canada. With one voice the House passed a motion sponsored by the Prime Minister (Mr R- B. Bennett) to set up a committee of eleven members to investigate price spreads between consumers and producers. The instructions to the committee are couched in the widest terms, hut emphasis is laid on the investigation of mass buying practices by the chain and department stores, labour conditions in industries, the relations between the flour-milling industry and the bakeries, and the methods of marketing Jive stock and animal products of all sorts.
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Evening Star, Issue 21637, 5 February 1934, Page 8
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