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Show PER SAYS ! "BIG BUSINESS" BEMlSj Campaign of Misrepresenta- j tion Is Successful Labor , Commissioner Asserts CINCINNATI. O.. Abril 10! In tho "preliminary skirmishes" of the threatened Industrial war "kl business" busi-ness" has beaten its rival. th trades' union. Dr. Royal Meeker, commissioner commis-sioner of labor statistics of(the department de-partment ofabor declared ii an ad- . dress today before the Cities' blub. Ho urged co-operation In the struggle against high prices. "By a carefully planned ajnd lavishly lav-ishly flnancod campaign of misrepresentation." misrepre-sentation." Dr. Meeker declared, "big businessyha3 succceclded In magnifying magnify-ing the defects and obscuring or discrediting dis-crediting the benefits of publicly controlled con-trolled and managed enterprises." Contrary to the popular belief, Dr. Meeker said, profiteering was ;tho ro-sult ro-sult and not the causo of liiglv, prices. Increase of prices, he said, was to bo attributed to two causes doubling of tic quantity of currency and decrease in tho quantity of goods. Tho profiteer, prof-iteer, was the result of these conditions. condi-tions. . no |