SOCIALISTS AND FOOD PRICES
LARGE ORDER ON THE GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedln, March 22. A crowded protest meeting was held by the Social Democratic Party last night. The meeting passed a resolution denouncing the exploiters of foodstuffs for taking advantage of the present war crisis, ana calling on the Government to immediately assume possession of the wheat, flour, and meat supplies of the country and to ensure by State enterprise that sufficient wheat is grown in New Zealand next season not only for tho people of this country, but also for the purpose of exportation at a minimum price to assist the people of Britain. The meeting further condemned the attempts of defraying the expenditure arising out of tho war by means of street collections, etc., and demanded a graduated war tax on land and incomes.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19150323.2.19
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2416, 23 March 1915, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
137SOCIALISTS AND FOOD PRICES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2416, 23 March 1915, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in