§ Sir Archibald SinclairI ask leave to present to this honourable House a national petition, signed by 804,000 of His Majesty's subjects. The grievance set forth in this petition is that increases in the price of foodstuffs and other domestic necessities have raised the cost of living and that the burden of rising prices falls with especial hardship on family households receiving low wages, fixed pensions, unemployment or public assistance allowances, and other small salaries or fixed incomes. Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that this honourable House will alleviate their grievance by removing or reducing such taxes, tariffs, and regulative trade restrictions, internal or external, as stand in the way of a free and open market for all consumers.