The Government is drafting a number of new ordinances, the press here reports, aiming at bringing about a reduction in the prices of foodstuffs and essential articles of consumption, the effect of which will be to exclude the middleman whose intervention, it is said, is responsible for the present high prices. No police or administrative measures will be employed to exercise pressure upon merchants and shopkeepers to reduce their prices, but efforts will be made to promote direct dealing between producer and consumer, and in particular to assist the co-operative movement: Since Jews find it almost impossible to find admission to the co-operatives, it is feared that the general result of the Government action will be to drive out of business the thousands of Jewish small traders in the country.
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