§ Mr. KIRKWOODI beg to present the following petition:
To the honourable Commons of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland in Parliament Assembled. The humble petition of the undersigned citizens, membe4 and their families and those associated with them in Clydebank and Dumbarton Co-operative Societies.Whereas we citizens have always met the full taxation upon our incomes in common with all other subjects of His Majesty, we respectfully desire to protest with all the emphasis we can command against the recommendations of the special committee appointed on 12th May, 1932, to inquire into the taxation of cooperative societies. Such recommendations, if adopted, would result in great injustices being inflicted upon co-operative societies, a very large section of whose members are drawn from the poorest section of the community.Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray your honourable House as the final authority not to implement these recommendations as such legislation, if adopted, would be penal in character and differentiate cooperative societies in matters of taxation from other sections of the trading community. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will humbly pray your honourable House will refrain accepting such recommendations.