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Show URGES REGULATION OF TRADE COMBINES I BOSTON. Jan. 3. Trade combinations, combina-tions, described as "festering barnacles barna-cles on our industrial life which are fairly choking it to death." should be suppressed or regulated. Samuel Un-temeyer, Un-temeyer, of New York, said in an nd- .Iros heri- Asserting "open price" associations and other trade combinations were I mainly responsible for high living ' costs, ho declared conditions would ; not change until the problem which , such organizations presented was solved. Th- Increased cost of labor, he Bald,, wj.s more properly a:i effect than' cause." of high living costs, adding I tl i1 "when the price of everything Ithat labor uses to create the product j ls artificially controlled. It ls hardly ' fair to place on labor the responsibil- ity for increased costs." tin |