The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
LONDON'S FOOD
BILL DOMINATES
ALL OTHERS
THE SOCIALISTS MEASURE
STRIKES AT REAL PROB
LEM AND PROPOSES THE
ONLY ADEQUATE SOLU-
TON.

| representative LoHuOu bii w
create commission to provide for
government control of the food
| supply has been referred to the
House committee on interstate and
! foreign commerce. In view of the
| fact that Congress adjourned today
| for its usual Christmas vacation, the
| committee will take no action regard
| ing the bill until Congress reconvenes
on January 2. 1t is understood that
the committee, of which Representa-
| tive William G. Adamson of Georgia
is the chairman, will then hold hear
ings on Londons bill, as well as on
the other food" bills now in the Gus
| tody of the committee.
1t is quite generally recognized that
! London's bill goes to the crux of the
cost of-living question and proposes
the only adequate solution in it's dec
laration for government control of the
food necessaries, eliminating the spec
ulative and profit mongering horde of
middlemen.
What Provisions Are.
! Section l of the bill creates the fed
eral food commission and names its
personal.
| Section instructs the commission
| to make an immediate investigation
into the food supply, and outlines the
procedure that the commission shall
take in case the supply is found insult
ficient, making it mandatory upon
the president to proclaim an embargo
on the expectation of such products.
Section 8 instructs the commission
to recommend additional legislation, if
required, to make the embargo effec-
tive.
Section provides that the embargo
shall be raised when the commission
is satisfied that the export of food
products will not materially injure the
people through boosted prices for
home consumption.
Section 5 instructs the commission
to recommend to Congress such legis-
lation as will permit the federal gov
eminent to exercise complete control
over the supply and distribution of
food"
Section 6 instructs the commission
to recommend plans for the co-opera-
ton of the state and local govern
ments with the federal government in
the food supply control, and makes it
the duty of the commission to report
to Congress not later than February
/, 1917.
Section 7 confers upon the commits
sion the usual power to hold hearings
and summon witnesses.
Section 8 appropriates $4,000 for
the use of the commission.
Section 9 limits the effect of the
act to two years from the date of it's
enactment into law.
The official text of London's fed
.
LOndOn's Food Bill
A BILL to create commission which
is to recommend legislation for the
taking over by the federal govern
ment of the control of food, and to
authorize the president to prohibit,
under certain conditions the expor-
tation of food.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
| House of Representatives of the
| United States of America, in Congress
assembled, that a commission is here
| by created, to be known as the Fed
eral Food Commission, to consist of
the secretary of agriculture, the sec
rotary of commerce and the secretary
of labor.
Sec. 2. The said commission shall
proceed Immediately to ascertain all
facts relating to the supply of food
and food products in the United
States. Should it appear that the
supply of food is insufficient for the
needs of the country it shall be the
duty of the commission to so certify
to the president, who shall thereupon
by proclamation, prohibit the export
from the United States of any farm
products and of any article of food
Upon the issuance of the said procla-
nation, and until the order prohibit
ing expectation shall be revoked, il
shall be unlawful to export any ar.
ticle of food or any farm products
from any part of the United States.
Sec 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
commission to recommend such ad
ditional and further legislation as
may be necessary to male the EN-
barge effective.
Sec. 4. The prohibition shall re
main in effect until the commission
shall certify that the supply of fooe
and food products permits of the re
sumption of the export of food anC
food products, and thereupon tn
president shall suspend the embargo
Machinery Is Complete.
Sec. 5. The commission SHALL pre-
pare and recommend legislation Il
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