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Having in fact provided a striking condemn tion of this industry, the. Commissicrs conclusions & recommendations turn out to be as limp as.a wet lettuce leaf. It thinks that price regulation vould not be desirable, but _ that selling expenses in excess of an approved percentage of net wholesale turnover should be disallowed for tax purpoSes, and that the Board of — should continue to keep a watch on prices. Such weak recommentations, following the indictment are only to be expected from a body which works within the framework of monopoly capitalism. Such a body is faced with an insoluble problem,for it cannot step outside the bounds of capitalist society. Moreover, since it looks at these industries separately, it cannot provide an oversll solution to the problems that are essentially ones not of individual industries, but of a whole system.. For socialists the problem is not how to curb monopolies, nor try to return to a more competitive society, since monopolies ate the logical outcome of competition. ‘Wheat such reports should do is to provide us with the ammunition to fight and supplent such a wasteful, crazy system. Consumer control and choice need not be mediated by plastic tulips, and T.V. bilge, there is another way. The social ownership and control of industry via workers' control and socialist planning would soon relieve the scum that floats beneath the nec-capitalist society.
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