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LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION  \nBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET  \nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 308  \u003Cbr>Z  \u003Cbr>Box 182 Addison.Christopher AddLs0n.lst barO      上by  \u003Cbr>Why food is dear.London,The Labour party  \u003Cbr>.1925,  \u003Cbr>23 p.port.  \u003Cbr>1.Cost and standard of living -Gt。Brit  \u003Cbr>ONLY ED·   |  |\n\n Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia Universlty Libraries.              \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:35mmREDUCTION RATIO:            9.1  \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nIB  \nIIB  \nDATE FILMED:                     /2897 INITIALS:         I  \n        MSH 23292               \nTRACKING\\#:  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nWHY FoOD ISDEAR  \n308  \nZ  \nx192  \nBy  \nThe Rt.Hon.Christopher Addison  \n(Formerly Minister of Munitions,and afterwarda First Minister of Heath).  \nPrice:TWOPENCE.  \nPUBLISHED BYThe Labour Party,33 Eecleston Square,London,S.W.1.  \nWHY FOOD ISDEAR  \n   \nBy  \nThe Rt.Hon.Christopher Addison  \n(Formerly Minister of Muntions,and afterwardą First Minster of Heath).  \nPrice:TWOPENCE.  \nPUBLISHED BYThe Labour Party,33 Eccleston Square,London,S.W.1.  \n,4-w-+另  \n/与abm Rd8-31.25  \n# WHY FOOD ISDEAR\n\nINTRODUCTION  \n\"The stuffy air of self-seeking is so suffocating to-daythat many have forgotten what it felt like to breathe theLarger air\"·  \nThe truth of this is brought home to us when we read the Reportof the Royal Commission on Food Prices with its additions to ourknowledge of the menacing hold of a few great corporations overthe bulk of our food and,by contrast,nark its futile recommenda-tions and compare them with the definite advice of similarlyauthoritative bodies that reported under the influence of the warperiod.  \nWhen we were breathing the“larger air”we recognised howdangerous it was for one set of citizens to hold up the rest to ransomin the food they need.In those days we“made no bones aboutit\"but were prepared to act,and.did act,in the interests of themany as against the selfishness of the few.  \nThere can be few subjects of greater importance than the supplyand price of food,nor is there one that I know of wherein thereis a more abundant justification for the adoption of those nationalor socialistic methods that the Labour Party stands for.  \nThe Producer is suffering from the lack of it just as much asthe Consumer,and this pamphlet,relying for its facts solely uponofficial publications,aims at presenting in popular form a summaryof:—  \n(i.)·What the facts are;  \n(ii.)What the Royal Commission recommends;  \n(ii.)What the Government proposes to do;  \n(iv.)What the records show can be done.  \n# I.THE FACTS.\n\nTHE AMOUNT SPENT ON FooD,ITS CoST;ANDTHE PoWER TO BuY IT.  \n“Sixty per cent.of the national income is spent on food”*(9).The amoumt obtainable for what is spent depends of course uponits price.Twenty shillings to-dlay will only buy as mnch as couldbe got in 1914 for 1ls.2d.(14).In 1904 the average familyexpenditure on food was 16s..:the same amount of foodwonld now cost from 29s.10d.to 33s.4d.(52).It follows,therefore,that those whose wages will not allow them to spend at least 30sa week on food for the family are getting less than they were accus-tomed to buy 20 years ago—and then they were not getting enough.  \nBut the purchasing power of wage-earning people has undergonea startling diminution in the last fonr years.According to theMinistry of Labour Gazette—exclnding the losses of wages sufferedby agricultural labourers,shop assistants and others—reductionsin wages dnring the past four years have amounted to more than(10,000,00M)per weck.  \nTherefore,with a million and a quarter people unemployed,those that are employed have a purchasing power of more than(520,0KK),(KW)per annum less than they had four years ago.  \nIt cannot,therefore,be open to doubt that many 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