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\nLondon[193-?]  \n# COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be mado without permislon trom Columbia UnivestyLibraries.              \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:          35mmREDUCTION RATIO:__9:/      \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA IIA  \nDATE FILMED:                  8-11-97INITIALS:         13  \nTRACKING\\#:                                                                                              25896  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n(1)  \nN  \nThe  \nBy  \nDr.Alfred  \nSalter,M.P.  \n308Z  \n3ox 350[Price—ONE PENNY]  \nPublished by  \nThe Labour Party,Transport House,Smith Square,London,S.W.1  \nINTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE  \n# The Bread Tax\n\nBy  \nDr.Alfred  \nSalter,M.P.  \n308  \nZ  \n[Price—ONE PENNY]  \nBox 350  \nPublished by  \nThe Labour Party,Transport House,Smith Square,London,S.W.1  \nAbridged report of a speech delivered in the House ofCommons,on March lst,1932,by Dr.Alfred Salter (LabourMember for West Bermondsey),in moving the Labour Party'smotion to reject the Wheat Bill.The motion was as follows:  \n\"This House,being convinced of the urgent necessityfor a comprehensive programme of agricultural reorgan-isation,including nationalisation of the land and animprovement in the conditions of the agricultural worker,expresses its dissatisfaction with a Bll the sole objectsof which are to provide wheat growers with a securemarket and an enhanced price which makes no provisionfor adequate organisation of wheat supplies through anImport Board and a National Marketing Board,and willnot make for the development of agriculture upon linesbest suited to this country,protect the farmer againstincreased rents or the consumer against price exploita-tion,nor secure through a Central Wages Board adequatewages for the agricultural worker.\"  \nPRICE,POST FREE:  \n1 Copy -·1d.  \n12 Copies-  9d.  \n100  \n.  6s.  \nfrom the  \nLabour Publications Dept,  \nTransport House,SmithSquare,London,S.W.1  \ne3A○ d3b1  \nTHE BREAD TAX.  \nTHE OBJECT of the Bill as set forth in the explanatoryMemorandum is:  \n\"To provide wheat growers in the United Kingdom witha secure market and an enhanced price for home-grownwheat of millable quality,without subsidy from theExchequer.\"  \nThe farmer is to have a subsidy of from 15s.to fl a quarter,the difference between the market price and the standardprice of 45s.per quarter.The landlord will get his enhancedrent all right.He is sure of his subsidy,but the Bill is verycareful indeed not to say who is ultimately to pay the subsidy.  \nThe Minister of Agriculture this afternoon admitted,more incidentally than specifically,that it is ultimatelythe bread consumer who is to pay the price.  \nHe qualified that statement by saying that the price wasnot going to rise.He left it quite indeterminate as to whowas to find the subsidy in that case.  \nGULLING THE PUBLIC.  \nI want to say that the people in the trades concerned,themiling trade and corn trade and the baking trade,haveno doubt whatever.In the“London Corn Circular”of aweek ago appeared this statement:  \n“If any member of the Government imaginesthat the complications involved in the schemewill successfully mask from the public that it isthe bread consumers who are going to pay forthe whole of the increased cost of wheat involvedin the quota scheme,he is cherishing a vain hope.\"  \nThe baking trade_papers also emphasise this.In theissue of the“British Baker,”of 19th February,the Secretaryof the National Association of Master Bakers in a speech,made this statement:  \n“The millers and bakers are not at enmity with theGovernment in their suggestion that the farmers of this  \ncountry should not be impoverished,but what theydo say is that the public should not be gulled.Itshould be made plain to them that if the Governmentwas going to pay 10s.or 15s.per quarter more thanthe world price,then the","cbCair2s1UHn3vsT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair2s1UHn3vsT","pdf",635908,11,"English","# The Bread Tax\n## Speech context and the Labour Party motion\n## The claim that the consumer pays the subsidy\n## “Gulling the public” and trade press arguments\n## Expectation that the price of bread will go up","[{\"question\":\"What bill does Dr. Alfred Salter oppose in the speech?\",\"answer\":\"He moves a Labour Party motion to reject the Wheat Bill, criticizing its purpose and effects on agriculture and pricing.\"},{\"question\":\"According to the report, who ultimately pays the subsidy?\",\"answer\":\"The Minister of Agriculture is cited as admitting the price is ultimately paid by the bread consumer, while the subsidy source is left unclear.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the speech claim the public will be misled?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that trade papers and baking-industry statements suggest the government will mask that increased wheat costs fall on consumers, 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