| Show Price of Clothing too High In its effort to determine the reason reason reason rea rea- son for Cor the present low price of raw wool in the face of reduced wool supplies and decrease in the number of sheep in the principal wool pro countries of the world the tIle department of agriculture has found clothing prices too high All Ali branches of the textile and clothing trade regard clothing prices as too high says the department but each feels reels that economies can b best st be ho effected by the others Retailer Retailers Retailers Re Re- Rei i feel that any reductions must muse take place in the manufacturers' manufacturers selling price The clothing manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- contends that the present wage scale makes It Impossible to effect economies In production costs Some of the clothing manufacturers and wholesale dealers feel that more efficient organization In the retail I trade would bring about lower clothing clothIng clothing cloth- cloth Ing prices Small Factor Raw Haw wool is a comparatively IY small factor In the price of clothing the department adds an wool all-wool suit averaging about Ih five e pounds of or wool and the difference between a priced high-priced and a priced low suit being mostly In the quality of linIngs lin lin Un- linings ings lags and findings and the labor used in making the cloth and the suit The present low price of raw wool cannot continue In the face of or reduced reduced- supplies unless a radical change takes place in the consumption consumption consumption tion of or woolen clothing by the American Amer Amer- American ican public the department states r I American woo growers are receiving receiving recel ving v- v ing 20 cents a pound less for Ifor their wool now than than an a year ago ago despite low world stocks decreased imports during the last ten months and a decrease decrease decrease de de- crease in the number of or sheep In the principal producing countries of the I world Buying I Falls Off Curtailed buying of ot woolen goods and clothing because of high pric prices s backward seasons high rents renS changes in style le of women's wear two-pants two suits and frh increased uSe uie of silk and cotton goods have been heen advanced d by hy the as is the reason remson reason rea rem son wh why the prices of or r raw wool are under those of a year e r ago despite the American Import tariff on woo I The price of ot raw law wool ih lit Boston Bosto Is approximately 18 13 cents a a pound lower than the London price plus plu I Import duty resulting in decreased imports and th the of oC lare lar 1 quantities of oC foreign wools imported into the United S States ates and in bond hondo Total wool ool imports itta the United lulled States in the ten month month- mo cl end ended rl ed April 30 1924 were pounds pound a as compared with pounds the corresponding ten months a year ago |
