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Show HIGH PRICE FIGHP ENTERSNEW PHASE STEPS BEING TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT TO CURB RISING RIS-ING COST OF CLOTHING. Conference of Intercuts Concerned in the Production and Sale of Wearing Wear-ing Apparel Called to Meet in January. Washington. .Steps to check the rising price of clothing will be discussed dis-cussed at a conference here early in January of persons interested in tho production of wearing apparel, from the producer of raw materials to the consumer cf the finished product. . The calling of the conference" was announced on December 1!) by Assistant Assist-ant Attorney General Figg, who said that, in addition to affecting economies econ-omies in operation, it was planned to provide for the production of standard quality cloth and garments fur sale at a reasonable price as an inducement to the public to check extravagance in purchasing. Suggestions for the conference came from producers of wearing apparel, and a committee of seventeen is being chosen, the personnel of which will be announced after the Christmas holidays. hol-idays. The Amalgamated Clothing unions will be represented in the conference. con-ference. Mr. Figg said it was generally agreed among producers that one essential es-sential for reducing the cost of clothing cloth-ing was to have manufacturers de- vote their plants to necessities, meaning mean-ing the type of clothing purchasable by the average man. Some clothing manufacturers were said to believe that men's suits now selling for $55 retail, could be sold at a profit for $25 if an arrangement could be worked out between mills, - manufacturers and retailers, whereby a certain percentage of business could be devoted to goods of standard quality qual-ity to be turned out in quantity. "There is no intention to design a 'uniform' for the public," Mr. Figg said, "and the standard goods under consideration would be standard in quality rather than in pattern." |