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RICE CONTROL

PROFITEERS' MONOPOLY.

BURMA MERCHANTS' PROTEST.

A mass meeting of the Burma Rice Merchants' Association was held at Rangoon, recently, when the follow ing resolutions were passed un- animously —

COST OF LIVING.

A CEYLON ENQUIRY.

The Governor of Ceylon has been pleased to appoint a committee to caquire into the present increased cost of living as affecting Govern meat employees. The scope of the enquiry will cover all grades of the public service including daily paid labour. The object of the committee are to ascertain (1) whether the

1. That this meeting of the Burma Rice Merchants' Association, repres senting almost all the rice merchants existing scale of temporary increases of Bombay and Burma, is of opinion to pay and pensions is adequate to that there is absolutely no reason meet the present cost of living, and whatsoever to continue the rice con (2) if not, by what amount the trol this year as far as India is con percentages allotted to the different cerned beyond firing and allotting a grades should be increased to rea- certain maximum quantity that may der it adequate.-- be shipped to India, and this Association, holds that the recent labour. troubles in India would have of the promises made in 1858 been averted If the rice control had and 1908 by Royal Proclama ceased by the end of December last.-tions of equal Treatment irrespective

2. That this Association is ever of creed or cofour and that it has+ ready and willing to co-operate with actually caused grave ill-feeling and the Government in keeping down the deep discontent amongst the Indian. prices for the benefit of the millions rice-dealers and thousands of their of the poor Indian consumers, but employees.

this Association protests against 6. That this Association does not manceuvring a system of rice mono for a moment grumble at fair com- poly for profiteering under the petition with the present monopolists paradoxical excuse of control of in the Indian ports. but most unjust, prices for the benefit of the consumers. racial and tyrannical exclusion of 3. That this Association emphati the loyal-Indian subjects from the cally protests against the wholesale freedom of trading in their own confiscation of their hereditary and porta

long standing. birth rights of export-7. That this Association well ap ing rice to Bombay, Colombo, Madras preciates and approves, of the most and other Indian ports under the impartial system of distributing guise of rice control and conferring licences by the director of civil sup the same rights on the European plies of Calcutta to all the rice ship- millers who hardly, if ever, shipped pers without any invidious distinc rice heretofore to the Indian favoured tion, in proportion to their shipments merchants, two of whom were so during the years prior to introduction. mainly shipping rice as commission of control, and this Association urges agents on account of their con that the same system be adopted by stituents, and the third has taken to the Director of Civil Supplies in the rice trade for the first time only Bombay, Madras and other ports. on account of the profits of the rice 8. That this Association authorines monopoly.

4. That this monopoly conferred on a few merchants and excluding hundreds of regular shippers of rice

Its secretaries to sign the memorials

to the Viceroy and to the Commis

stones of Food Supplies at Delhi, and

to send the copies of these resalte

is a direct and defiant violation of tions to the Directors of Civil Sup aur vested rights and of the princ plies, Madres and Bombay, to the ples of free trade always advocated Lieutenant Governor of Burma. the by the British economists and the Governors of Bombay and Madras,

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the very object of the control which to Lord Sinha, to the rice commis was meant to benefit the consumers aloners, Burma, to the Hon. Mr. B. by controlling the price and the N. Sarma and others and to the press. profits

15. That this bar and disqualifica- tion of the members of his Associa~ tion from exporting rice to their own nother country and transferring the trade practically to the European Sig millers who had so long confided Claire

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