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Show CLOTHING WE IS PLEDGED 10 10011! Will Co-Operate in Investigation Investiga-tion of Profiteering and Re- i pert to Justice Dept. j WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. Increased production, more efficient distribution and siabilizatlon ot prices are necessary neces-sary lo reduce the price of clo'hing. dealers in men's wear today informed Howard Flgg, who is in charge oi the department of justice campaign tc reduce re-duce the cost of living. Representatives of the clothing trade concluding a two day conference adopted resolutions pledging co-operation of the manufacturers, merchants, producers and employes in the clothing cloth-ing industry to (he department of justice jus-tice which was called upon to investigate investi-gate charges of profiteering and if substantiated, sub-stantiated, to institute prosecutions. A committee was appointed to assist Mr. Figg in carrying out the leconi-menc'ations leconi-menc'ations of the conference. I Organisations represented wer-? the National Retail Clothiers' association: National Retail Dry Goods association; associa-tion; National Association of Clothiers, Cloth-iers, Amalgamated Cloth mg Workers,' Clothing Manufacturers' association of New York, American Association of Woolen and Worsted Manufacturers; National Association of Wool Mamifac: turn-si- -A-merictrn "CtTon Association ;4 Mississippi Valley association; Cotton Stales Official Advisory Marketing Board; and the Association of Presidents Presi-dents of Stale Farmers' Unions. In a statement outlining the re-suit of 'he conference. Mr. Figg said lhat causes for the present high prices, wavs and means of correcting tliem, standardization of clothing and other pertinent matlers entered into the discussion, dis-cussion, which the department feels developed, facts which will be of material ma-terial assistance. After the conference the National Association of Clothiers is3ued a tlalemenl warning the public not to expect any material reduoticn in the price of clothing because of increased wages being paid by (he industry. |