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Show LIVING GOST BEGINS TO SHOWJECLINE LABOR BUREAU REPORTS SLIGHT DECREASE IN STANDARD COMMODITIES. Indications That the Decline in Food Price Levels Is General Is Seen in Statistics From Leading Cities of Nation. Washington. Twenty-sewn of the 43 standard articles going into the American Amer-ican family market basket decreased in price between July 15 and August 13, it wi:s annouiuvd Sunday by the department uf labor's bureau of labor .'tutistics, which made public figures showing that during the thirty-day period pe-riod ended with the middle of August the retail price of potatoes fell -11 per cent and the price of cabbage went down 41 per cent. ) The drop in sugar price was placed at 14 per cent. Must kinds of meat decreased in price. Eggs went up 11 per cent (Wiring the period. With this exception and pork chops, which increased 5 per cent, tlio increases in other foodstuffs were '2 per cent or less. Indications that the decline in food price levels vas general is seen in statistics sta-tistics showing that each of the fifty-one fifty-one cities covered by the bureau's survey sur-vey reported decreases. Minneapolis led with a decrease of 11 per cent, with St. l'aul second, vvi'h a 10 per cent decline. Ten out of fourteen representative industries showed a decrease in employees em-ployees in August, as compared with July, the department of labor's bureau of labor statistics reported. The number of employees in the automobile au-tomobile manufacturing industry decreased de-creased 10 per cent in August, as compared com-pared with July. Other decreases were C per cent in the woolen industry and 5 per cent in the leather, hosiery and underwear industries. Increases of 3.5 per cent and 1.5 per cent were shown in car building and repairing and in paper making. As compared with July, the payrolls in August showed decreases In nine industries and increases in five. |