Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-05 | Page 1 | No Lowering of Prices Seen by Big Association

NO LOWERING OF PRICES SEEN BY BIG ASSOCIATION CLEVELAND, June 5. The I National Cloak, Suit and Skirt J Manuf act urers' association, j through President W. E. Fishj and Secretary Philip Frankel, has notified 20,000 retail dealers deal-ers in women's garments : throughout the couatiy that 1 ; i there is nothing fundamental to ! i 'indicate an unhealthy condition! ;in the clothing industry that! will bring an appreciable low-iering low-iering of prices. The letter states there is no cause for the present campaign I of "reduced prices" in cloth-1 I ing, except that some retailors desire to unload their seasonal j merchandise under new and j sensational advertising. ; "With labor insisting upon j Ireceving increased wages iu j the woolen and cotton mills, I jwith the phortcned working .day I j lessening production, we can-j not see how prices can be eucl-l denly flowered," the letter j read:. ' "Lower prices will only come , with increased production."