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Show Government to -Fix Wool Price, SheepmanSays $1 a Pound Would Be 1 I igurc Otherwise, Is Assertion. -Within the next few days the government gov-ernment will fix the price of wool, Otherwise It wouTdsoar from 54 cents" to H a pound." according to a state- j ment made Fy PF W. V MrCluie, secretary of the N-itlonal Woolgrow-ers' Woolgrow-ers' association, today, j "For the past hundred years wool has brought higher prices after war than during the war. and It la to be expected that price will go up now ' even though the government will allow jit to go little higher than the present 7:ice. ftxed .ant year.1 The demand for wool will ba much j greater, but nevertheless Jilgh price Is not a question of supply'and demand, he says, but due to continued advance In wages that have Increased the price. Iabor ha been high and the labor-era labor-era will not go back to the lower scale, so In order to make up for thla increase wool must sell at a high price for years, la his opinion. j t Iabor cost Is not entirely to bit me, t i for prices of other commodities have J gone up. Wool sacks which cost 45 j cents last year now coat f 1 Hay uaed to aerage from to fit a ton; I now the price la fixed In Idaho at $17. SO a ton; shearers used to wok for i cents a head; now they receive 20 cents. "We are about to face the biggest demand for wool In the history of the toi;" i qwesaestt le. VMrf .Hie. 'Taw government will need it for the army, and civilians who have bean deprived f wool for the past six month are (Continued on page I ) GOVERNMENT TO FIX j (Continued from page V) gnfwg to demand It for new clothes. Australia has a large supply of wool on hand, he ssys, but no ships are available' TorTrsnsporiatlon. and distance dis-tance Is too great to allow them to be used If there were enough. America can only raise 40 per cent of the wool she requires, and If Australia's Aus-tralia's wool could be shipped It would h enough to supply us for twelve - months, according to Dr. McClura. High prices will prevail after the war for many years and business of all kinds will not go back to working on a com petl live heals as It did In prewar da vi, f r MrClure antrl. |