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Show ' BLAMES' LABOR UNIONS. Manufacturer Declares Worklngmen Are Responsible for High Prices. Sprlngfiold, Mass. Largo responsibility responsi-bility for tho higher cost of living was laid by John KIrby, Jr., president of tho National Manufacturers' association associa-tion ijpon what ho called tho "labor trust" in an address hero Tuesday. Mr. KIrby's address was largoly a reply to a recent implied attack upon his organization In an articlo In tho Nntional Civic Federation Review. Ho said: "Tho primary cause of constantly ndvancing prices of commodities- of all kinds lies at tho door of tho labor trust, a cardinal principle of which Is to raise wages and restrict production, produc-tion, neither of which can fall to diminish dim-inish tho purchasing power of the dollar, dol-lar, and when working togothor they doubly depreciate Its value." |