BUSINESS: Farming: Foreign eggs put 8,000,000 hens on ’dole’ (1937)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit British poultry farmers face ruin as glut of imported eggs makes prices ruinously low. Keywords: Agriculture,? Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: foreign eggs put 8,000,000 hens on ’dole’ ENGLAND: London: EXT Price label on English eggs Hand taking egg and cracking into frying pan with bacon Knife and fork cutting bacon Mr and Mrs Wright and son eating at breakfast table Mr Wright talking to wife about bacon SOT Close up of egg and word ’Danish’ EXT Various of chickens feeding Man collecting eggs Basket of eggs Tower Bridge PAN to Danish boat Danish Flag Various of cranes lifting crates of eggs from ship to quayside Man pulling barrow along Farmer feeding chickens Chickens feeding Mr. Lechmere (Poultry Farmer) interview SOT - Without government assistance to curb foreign competition we must go to the wall it’s only a