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YES, HIGHNESS, HEADED ACROSS
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Measures To
Lower Costs
Finland's
new
Helsinki, Dec. 7. Government
Coalition
is
taking measures to force down the cost of living index by four per cent before the end of this year.
By deing this, the Ministers present quarter. If this bad hope to keep the peace between been allowed to happen Finland the clashing interests of town would have started the New and country here and to slave Year with a wages bill which except the Com- munists, have agreed, would be more than her economy could benr.
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fresh wave of inflation and all parties. ever present risk of another | Hlevelation of the currency.
The principal measures are:
Reductions in food prices. Butter will
1.
-
fringement. Inleiding the marks down from 418
tablishment
14 shillings) to
To maintain exports the cur- reney would have had to (about
This eleven tevalued,
would have and sixpence)
made imports more expensive #legramme (23 thay and grain and probably caused the Flun by an average of three mucks. to lose more than they gained. (about one penny farthing) per toiletrie
for certain
LI designs 340 morka commiliter to which applications slings could be submitted Resigns to be made exclusive,
The British representatives agreed to send a delegation Japan to discuss the issue
INDEMNITY
The Japanera delegates saf many of the consplatts of tri- tish Arms had ailsen fent le subanksi n 1.f designes Jupotiese producers by buyres.
toreign It was their pinebre to indenmity erlißeater fra forrign buyers.
The joint staiment British representatives prrelated Ute efforts
A The removal of the purs chase tax on clothing and clothes
materials.
The general belief in Finland that lower prices are to be pre- ferred to higher wages in her present gnomske pation shown by the fact Lint the A reduction of the general Trade Union Federation threat- bank rate from five and threeened a general strike recently ulasters per vent to four and not for higher wages but share quæters per cent.
lower prices.
An Increase in imports of i essential every day good in the hope that they will LH*t?r#*¢* cheaper Ugly being more
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mante by the Japarse industries but pointed out there had been LO The considerable number of cases in which British designs hurt Exerc rople. They also pointed out
followard that provestires Britain volded the possibility desigs being copter!.... France-Presse.
WI
ELEANOR PARKER
COLLAPSES
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JOINTLY PLANNED
for
The Government's iheasures, Jointly planned tay its two Leonstituent parties, the Agrat FOOD PRICES.
rians, representing the farmers and forest WITS, and the The eat in food prices and Surial Deinderats, representing
abolition of the purchases the lustrial
lower-pald Polling will. the white collar workers, have. Closerpment belleves, reduce the fore, wile support--if they the cost of Heling ineex from Its | work. present figure of 104
100 pinia before Christmas
Many Finns, including mem- This reduction
Ewo Government Is important bers of the
Barth
are.
nol however, because, if the Index had been allowed to a un creeping
sure that they will work. up and lunch reached 105 points.
For one Wing, the measures will
the Dalton about $27.000.000.000 marks Inbout 45,000.000) in Just revenue In-
To
there would have had to be a general Increase in wages.
Under an agreement made by he Government, employers | organisations
and
the
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bournel dored by her doctor to remam points Wages were
ta farmers received beiter returns. m Colars of Lebanon Hospital.
Ell word it whe
was agreed that they Miss Parker, wed to artist should rise automatically if it Paul Clemens on Thandegiving rise by an average of ve per Day. was overworking Her cent in any quarter. picture, Interrupted Mekady,
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There was every sign that the Index would rise by five ernt to 105 by the end of the
['VE GIVEN AN ORDER!! IT WILL BE DONE!
TALK
The farmies could chan botter returns under a special aybe- ment, made in November 1932. which stipulates that if agricul- tural income (ar caltuinted ench year by the specially appointed agricultural income committee) did not keep pace with rises in general woges, the farmern should be compensated either by increases in the price of produce or by state subsidy. In foreing down the cost living index, the Government must, therefore,
national
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FINAL COUNT
In the final count, the tax- payer must pay for his cheaper east of living.
Nor arc the Government's crites satisfied that the Finnish man-in-the-street will be satis- fed that the cost of living really has gone down. He mis- trusts the Index and says that
docy
not fairly record the strain of rising prices
the
family budget.
on
A nationwide survey by the Social Ministry confirms this. It found that the cost of living was already really higher than that shown in the Index because the prices of many goods which most families buy are not taken into account when the Index is calculated each month. Yet it Is these very goods which have Increased most in price.
Finally, the critics say, alliance
between the Social Democrats and the Agrarlana is
an unnatural one.
the
Traditionally, the Agrarians accuse the Soclul Democrats of starving the farmer to feed the factory hand, while the Sociol Democrats accuse the Agrarians of favouring the former at the expense of tho industrial worker.
This "town versus country" clash has been at the root of most
o! Finland's postwar Cabinet crimes. Yet the little country has a political stability which has enabled most Cabinet crises to be turned in now mile stones on her steady march back to peaceline prosperity-China Mail Special.
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