Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-28 | Page 3 | Shop of Paris Profiteer Sacked

SHOP OF PARIS PROFITEER SACKED PARIS, July 27. (By the Associated Press.) Further Instances have been reported re-ported of the public taking their own measures against profiteering by retailers. 1 A grocer in the poor quarter of Mont-martre, Mont-martre, seeing the rush of purchasers for , chicken and rabbit at 3 francs 75 centimes cen-times a pound, marked up the price in front of customers to 4 francs. The- crowd resented this action and sacked the shop. At Dunkirk, northern France, spinners who are striking as a protest against the high cost of living made a demonstration demon-stration in the market place yesterday-So yesterday-So effective was the demonstration that shopkeepers lowered their price by one-half. one-half. Twice lately proprietors of merry-2:0-rounds at pleasure fairs in Paris, seeing crowds nocking to them to take rides, continued to raise the prices until the j people wrecked the machinery.