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"AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
t(d) Any matter incidental to any of the purposes mentioned in paragraphs
a), (b), and (c) of this section; and
““(¢) Any other means by which the minister is of opinion that it is in the
public interests that the growth or production of the product will or should be
promoted and encouraged;
“Provided, That the minister has obtained the concurrence of the occupiers of
factories or the cooperative societies or companies or the combination of cooperative
societies or companies. on whose application the levy has been made, as to
such means.”
An additional provision is made for grading throughout the Union, to become
effective whenever the producers of 50 per cent of a product have come into the
system. (Sec. 10.)
"Still another act.—By a lengthy diamond control act, 1925, there is established
the Union Diamond Board of South Africa, with provision for limiting the
quantity of diamonds to be disposed of by producers, and that the government
may fix the minimum prices for diamonds.
These several national boards are wholly named by the government.
¥. BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1927
In the Province of British Columbia, Dominion of Canada, on March 5, 1927,
the following act was passed to its third reading and was approved: “An act
respecting the marketing of fruit and other produce.”
There is established by the act the ‘Interior Tree-Fruit and Vegetable Committee
of Directions” called the interior committee, “with the exclusive power
to control and regulate, under this act, the marketing of all tree-fruit and vegetables
(including tomatoes and melons) being grown or produced within the
the following boundaries,” etc., excepting “the marketing of any product for the
purpose only of its being canned, preserved, evaporated, or otherwise changed
from its natural state by any process of manufacture or treatment.” (Sec. 4.)
The interior committee consists of three members, two appointed by the British
Columbia Fruit Growers and Shippers Federation, and one member appointed
by the minister of agriculture.
This system above described may also be designated as self-regulation in
fruit growing and distribution, in connection with Government supervision. It
is industrial democracy, a new institution among mankind, parallel to political
government.
The marketing of fruit is at cost, and in an orderly manner to prevent glutting
the market, with the shippers relieved of care and anxiety, and with no losses,
probably, from the unsupervised commission merchants.
It is a sensible, rational method. The recent international conference of last
Magy, 1927, approved whatever method lessens the cost of production and distribution.
Rationalization is the name. Everyone is benefited.
The general idea of lessening the costs to the public is part of the new-age
system. It is taking the place of the old-age system, that was built up by the
ruling few, for their own posal benefit. That mechanism in industry is now
outgrown and is about to be rebuilt on the basis of equal rights in private enterprise—regulated
competition, civil liberty, freedom.
GC GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
In Germany by act of March 13, 1919, the coal industry was regulated effectively—a
system of self-regulation by the citizens most vitally interested, in
connection with Government supervision for the public’s protection. None of
the industrial groups are dominating. National welfare is supreme in Germany's
coal industry.
Thus in Germany under stress of industrial conditions there came about the
reign of law and order in the coal industry—s system of industrial democracy.
It is equal rights in private enterprise. It is regulated competition, freedom,
civil liberty. .
This German system in the coal industry is described in Germany’s Industrial
Revival, by Sir Philip Dawson, M. P., page 140; 1925.
H. SumMARY As TO INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
The foregoing is an outline of the rapid spread of the new institution of industrial
democracy. It is self-regulation of industry by the citizens most vitally
interested, in combination with protection for the minority and the public by
