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Show BANK'S REPORT RAPSRETAILER Consumer Still on Strike in Belief He Isn't Getting Square Deal CLEVELAND. March 29. The utmost ut-most conservation still marks business activity In the fourth federal reserve district, according to the monthly bu.si-noss bu.si-noss review of tho fourth federal re-I re-I serve bonk, Issued Monday Some plants that have been shut down for many months are resuming operation I in some degree, but others, more closely close-ly dependent upon the dally volume of orders, are gauging their production produc-tion with caution "Complaint is tdlll made from many 80urcea of the alleged failure of the retailer to pass on to his trade the full benefit of the reduction to prices In tho whole markets,' the report says. "Consequently thc Individual buyer is still on strike' and stocks of goods for which there Is a market at somewhat reduced prlc can not pass oer the counter and benefit the business world " "Unemployment generally appears to ho slightly decreasing In the principal prin-cipal cities, except where Industry is Just beginning to feel the full effect iof liquidations inreatened labor troubles, particularly particu-larly In the transportation and building lines are problems f the present.'' |