Nutrition and Food Supplies

1936-09 1936 1930s 33 pages : illustration the first year — for home produced beef. The housewife who cannot afford British beef is compelled to contribute to a subsidy to maintain its price. Actually, in spite of the subsidy, the home producer is receiving no more than before, because pri...

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Main Author: Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women's Organisations (contributor)
Institution:MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Language:English
English
Published: London : The Labour Party September 1936
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description 1936-09 1936 1930s 33 pages : illustration the first year — for home produced beef. The housewife who cannot afford British beef is compelled to contribute to a subsidy to maintain its price. Actually, in spite of the subsidy, the home producer is receiving no more than before, because prices have fallen by as much as the subsidy on account of falling demand. The Government intend to shift the cost of the subsidy from the taxpayer to the buyer of imported beef, by means of a levy on imports. Thus the housewife who buys frozen or chilled beef, not from choice but because British beef is beyond her means, will have to pay to keep it beyond her means. Milk. Milk Marketing Boards for England and Wales and for Scotland were set up in the autumn of 1933. All producers must sell their milk to the Board which supplies distributors and manufacturers, and in conjunction with the distributors’ organisations, fixes retail prices and distributors’ margins. The Board operates a pooling scheme — on a regional basis — paying a flat rate to producers in each region for every gallon of milk whether it is sold as liquid milk or for manufacture. Previously the individual producer bore the loss on the “surplus” milk which was sold at an uneconomic price for manufacture. Often he was at the mercy of the well-organised distributors who might sell all their milk as “liquid” milk and pay the farmer only a manufacturing price for part of it. The producer now receives the same price for every gallon whether it ultimately comes on our tables at 3½d. per pint, or goes to a factory at 3½d. per gallon. The loss on manufacturing milk is thus spread over all the producers. In reality it is the consumers of liquid milk who pay. The price to the housewife was fixed at a figure which would enable the pool to pay a remunerative price to the farmer for every gallon of milk, and from the beginning was determined by the existence of a 20 per cent. “surplus” sold cheap for manufacture. In other words, the housewife has been compelled not only 22 127/NU/5/5/1/12
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National Union of Railwaymen
Cost of living, nutrition and standards of living: pamphlets, leaflets, etc.
Health care
Nutrition ; Poverty ; Food Supply
Nutrition and Food Supplies
title Nutrition and Food Supplies
topic National Union of Railwaymen
Cost of living, nutrition and standards of living: pamphlets, leaflets, etc.
Health care
Nutrition ; Poverty ; Food Supply
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