Mrs. SlaterTo the honourable Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, I desire to present the humble Petition organised by the English and Scottish Co-operative Women's Guild, of vast numbers of citizens, mainly housewives, protesting strongly against the rise in the cost of food which, from their own experience at shopping, they know to be a fact. This bears most hardly on old age pensioners and people in the lower income groups and many people have been compelled to reduce their consumption of essential food.
Wherefore your Petitioners pray that steps be taken, whether by such subsidies, price controls or similar means, to reduce the prices of the prime necessities of life so as to ensure the provision of a satisfactory minimum standard for all citizens.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.