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Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 5, 1940.
Watch The War Profiteers
TIME HAS COME TO PILLORY THEM
By A SPECIAL COMMISSIONER
THE buying public, as well as small traders all over England, are impatiently awaiting the Government's promised measures to stamp out the menace of the war profiteer:
Gd. alb.
It is demanded that the Gov- that the price was 2s. Ild. a lb. The ernment should, without delay, proprieter came along and told the pillory and penalise swollen-assistant that she was to charge Is. profitmongers who are merci- lessly putting up the standard of living against all sections of the community.
aid that the price would soon be "On remonstrating with him I was 38. iid."
Bicycle manufacturers, writing in My postbag is again heavy with reply to the charge that the addi- complaints of profiteering in ail tion of 124 per cent, to the price of their products is profiteering, say classes of household goods.
that the rise is due to the additional
A transport worker in Stepney, Ecosts of material demanded by lead- writes: "My wife has just returned ing makers of essential parts.
from her weekly shopping expedition, Stenk which was 18, a lb. last week- end is to-day 1s. 6d. A 1002, lamb chop is quoted at 1s. 6d. Dripping is also ed.per quarter deater
From 9d. To 1/3
Radio Sets
The Radio Manufacturers' Associa- tion, says it is inevitable that costs of production will tend to increase.
It is unavōRNIT UN this increaSE In cost must be reflected as time goes an in some rise in the prices of radio sets and components, but it is the policy of the industry that such price
"Poor mothers who have to send things to evacuated children are as being victimised. A pair of child's Rocks, previously obtainable nl 9d.creases us do occur shall be limited to meeting the extra charges upon e tu-day is. 3d."
the Industry.
From Marden. Kent, comes this! complaint: "On September 8 pur- Federation of British. Industries has chused tour yards of nursery mate- ril at 1. id. a yard-a jotal of 7. Bd. Yesterday I went to the same shop, and was informed that the pree was now 2s. 6d., a yard."
At the Government request, the
told its members that, at the present juncture, it is of the utmost Import- anec that the prices of articles of common use should be kept as stable as possible,
Charges of profiteering are to be An Ealing reader sought to pur-investigated by the Retail Trading chase some floor-boarding. "On Standards Association. August 21," he writes, "the price was
To prevent the repetition of street!
28, per square. Last Saturday scenes against East End shopkeepers had risen at one yard to 32s. 6d, and at another to 39s. 6d."
Rod-Handed
A Tonbridge woman sought to buy
pickets are to be posted by the Step- ncy Tenants' Defener League,
They will prevent ineffective: grumbling the secretary, Mr. T. Rosen, told a reporter. They will
a pound of knitting wool. I was help the collection of evidence of asured by the assistant," she writes, profiteering for our Food Vigilance "that the wool was old stock, and Committee."
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Home Ruined On Joy Day
ONE minute celebrating their silver wedding anniversary-the next minute homeless,
This was the plight of a Queen- borough, Kent, couple, Mr. and Mrs. A. Harrison, of South-street, were sit- ting down to their celebration dinner with their family when a crackling noise was heard.
and
wife went into the kitchen saw a glow through a crack in the wall," said Mr. Harrison;~~~~]* rushed to the front of the house and saw smoke pouring down the stairs.
"Putting on my civilian respirator, I tried to recover some of our furni- ture, but was beaten bacle by the flames."
Many presents were destroyed by Are and water, and furniture, bought twenty-five years ago, was ruined. The house was so badly damaged that Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have had to leave. They are going to live with their daughter.
GOEBBELS'S MAGAZINE
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and its Pages
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