Show BLAMES LABOR UNIONS manufacturer manufacturer declares workingmen springfield mass ilass largo large responsibility for the higher cost ot of living was laid by john kirby jr president oi of the national manufacturers ass ocla tion upon what he ha called the labor trust in an address here tuesday mr kirbas kirbys address was largely a reply to a recent implied attack upon his organization in an article in the national civic federation review lie ile said tho the primary cause ol at constantly advancing prices ot of commodities ol of all kinds lies at the door of the labor trust a cardinal principle of which Is to raise wages and restrict production neither of 0 which can fall to diminish the purchasing power of the d dollar 01 and when working together they doubly depreciate its value |