Show BLAMES LABOR UNIONS manufacturer declares workingmen are responsible for high prices springfield mass large responsibility for the tha higher cost of living was laid by john kirby jr president of the national manufacturers association upon what he called the labor trust in nn an address hero tuesday mr air 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 he sald said the primary cause of constantly advancing prices of commodities of all kinds lies at atthe the door of the labar trust a cardinal principle of which Is to raise wages and restrict production neither of which can falato fall to dim anish the purchasing power powe of the dof dollar and when working together they doubly depreciate its value |