USING PRICES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 144, 13 March 1920, Page 8

USING PRICES

U.S.A. SEEKS A REMEDY

PUBLIC'MEETING TO RE CALLED

. 'A proposal that the Returned Soldiers' Association should set up a committee to gather evidence of profiteering and-place cases before the Government tribunals, was made at a meeting of tho. , association last night by Mr.,A. B. Sievwright. The tribunals, said Mr. Siev- - w'right, were in danger of proving valueless unless the public moved in tne mutter. The association was in a position to move strongly in the interests of returned soldiers and their dependants.

Mr. C. W. Batten seconded the motion. He said that the association was tho right body to move/because it represented all sh'alles of 'political opinion. ■ Mr. J. M'Kenzio declared that the tribunals would not do much good. Tho .people'had made their mistake at the general election, and now all the profiteers had a licenso from the Government to proceed unchecked. The cost of living was going to continue rising. The association ought to agitate. It had been simply an annexe of the Defence Department in . the, past. The soldiers were being exploited ..at every point. They were bled when they bought homes, land, furniture, .or anything else. But Mr. Massey was well in the saddle, and the people had 110 remedy. Mr. A. Gough spoke heatedly, of the "damnable profiteers," and demanded that the association should insist upon action by the Government. _ . After discussion' the association decided that a public meeting should, bo called to consider the cost of living, and that a committee should be set up at that meeting to formulate a policy on the subjeot. ..