THE BACON INDUSTRY.

Shannon News, 25 May 1923, Page 4

THE BACON INDUSTRY.

NATIONALISATION NEEDED. EFFECT OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. A strong' plea to have the bacon industry established on a nationa.l cooperative basis was made by Mi'- P- J - Small at last night’s session of the Dominion Dairy Farmers’ Conference. Mr. Small, in the course of a lengthy survey of the position of the industry, mentioned how private enterprise was creeping in, and the disastrous results that would accrue therefrom to the industry. He deplored the manner in which p.ivato enterprise directed the farmer just what he was to be paid for his produce. There was only one solution to the matter, and that the nationalisation of the industry. On the “ draught board,” as he chose to term it, the bacon producers were given one move, and that move was not to the advantage of the producers, but as things were at present, they had.no other alternative. After dealing with various aspects of consigning produce, Mr. Small asked members to note his words when he prophesied in two or three years time running side, by side with the dairying industry, would be the baqon industry. Mr. Small moved: “ Seeing that the bacon industry is in a very unsatisfactory stale, tills conference is determined to sep flic industry fesl,ab}lshed on a national co-operative basis, apd instructs the Dominion: -executive to makp sti emipug efforts to >vork to that end.’’: —Carried- ,