Milk A conflict between the Food Council and the Boarci
of Trade on the one hand, and the representatives of the Milk retailers on the other, follows hard upon the controversy on the price of flour, and upon the Council's report on the retail meat trade. If this is a sign that the findings of the Food Council are to have more attention paid to them than has been the case in the past it is welcome. At the same time, it is as well to realize that a firmer attitude on the part of the Board of Trade may react to the detriment of clasieS of the population which are in no better case than that which it is sought to relieve—viz., the milk producers. The latter have lately gained a point in the struggle with the big retailing organizations, and the new attitude, if it results in action, may. end in their being forced, by new arguments, to relinquish some of this advantage. The is-sue is thus not purely one of trade against public, but also one of different sections of the trade against each other ; and care should be taken that justice is done to all.
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