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Show 'predicts yet higher ! prices for clothing j CHICAGO, Pent. 11. Clothinsr mnmifac- i : turers. in addresst-s before the National I Association of Retail Clothiers, insist ed ' that extra wm.ss for overtime work Mm- j I ted product ion and hem -os? s hluh, and declared there was no protiierins in their , Industry, ludwir Stein assertel thai the j present a era etc cost of a suit of clothes I is S4v"i whi-'h he predicted would be increased to SO 2 for 1.0. "It took thirteen years a ft or the civil! war to brimr down prices, so how can we expect a bit; break In prices In six m-.iths :i fter the world's war?" si Id Mr. Stein, j "In ord'r to brine: down prices, nmduc- tion must be increased, extravagance : stooped and labor prhvs fall." |