The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-09
CLOTHING PRICES
TAKE new DROP
Mems Clothing for. Spring Hit
New Low Levels.
Public by Not Buying RespOn-
sible, Says Wholesaler.
SOME CUTS FIFTY Per CENT
Stocks Are Offered Retailers at
Greatly Reduced Prices.
Spring Goods Will Be OF From
10 to 33H Per Cent.

New York, Nov. 9.-Reports that
textile manufacturers contemplate a
general wage reduction as a step to-
ward lowering prices to the public
were received here today by John
Golden, international. president of the
United Textile Workers of America.
with the declaration We'll fight"
Golden declared 'the first persons
who must accept a reduction in
wages in the textile industry are the
stockholders"
Next must come the extremely
high paid executives" ne said. when
all this is done, there will be no rea-
son for reducing wages of the textile
workers"
Expect Endurance Test.
Referring to the Uncasville Manu-
featuring company which reopened its
Connecticut mill yesterday after its
zoo employees agreed to a 20 per cent
wage decrease. Golden said that if
manufacturers whose plants are
unionized attempt a similar move IL
will cause an endurance test
Golden said that neither the I'm
casvfile factory nor the Fall River
mills which reopened several days ago
was organized. He would say noth-
ing about the strength of his union.
out 1t is known there are more than
100000 textile workers in the coun-
try and American Federation of Labor
OFFICIALS generally refer to that indus
try as about rs per cent organized"
Golden said that before the war
wages IN the textile industry averaged
hODf a yxyna fnr 81
The present wages range from $21 to
500 with general average of $50 for
a 4S-hour week in the north and 55-
hour week in the south. he said.
Clothing Men Cut.
Chicago, Nov. 9.-Men's clothing for
immediate delivery was offered today
at prices 10 to Sc per cent below pres
ent wholesale prices.
Goods for spring and summer de-
livery were shown at prices 10 to 1914
per cent under those of year ago, and
mems shirts and similar articles were
shown at greatly reduced prices at the
opening of the thirteenth semi-annual
buying convention of the United Ma
tional Clothiers in Chicago.
Public Is Not Buying.
The convention is being attended by
retail dealers from seventeen middle
western and western states, and has
taken the form Of a huge display of
made up garments.
THE public is not buying; manu-
facturers and dealers are overstocked."
said W. L. Mohr, treasurer and general
manager of the association today.
Be Cheaper Yet.
THE price must come down. We
have passed the peak in high prices of
wearing apparel. Mems clothing will
be considerably cheaper from now on;
the retailer can afford to sell at less,
for his costs are becoming lower.
Here are some mems shirts" he
lsaid indicating an exhibition, which
wholesaled at s45 dozen few
months ago. Now they are offered at
$3.50 a dozen. Here are two thou
sand suits offered at s16.50-suits that
ordinarily wholesaled at $3.50. The
age of extravaganza has passed, and
rather than let the goods rot on the
shelves the manufa acturers are getting
what they can out of them"
Fasteners Announce Cut.
Rochester, Nov. 9.-A reduction of
l331k per cent in the wholesale price
of clothing is announced by one OF
Rochester's largest clothing manufac-
turing concerns. The reduction is ef-
fective from November /. and applies
to suits and overcoats. 1t is said the
reduction. which is in addition to the
usual cash discount of Z per cent. rep
resents q cut from s33. the opening
fall wholesale price, to approximately
$50.
Milk Prices Are Cut.
| St Louis. Nov. 9.-The retail price
of milk in st. Louis will be reduced
/ from II to Is cents a quart Thursday,
officials of local dairying companies
announced today.
The reduction, 1t was explained. fol-
lows a reduction from $3.50 to 1910
hundred pounds made by southern
Illinois producers in the November
wholesale price
Flour Below SO Per Barrel.
| MINNEAPOLIS Nov. s.-For the first
time in almost four years. flour sold
i under SO a barrel at the mills here
today Quotations on family patents
broke 55 to rs cents today. making
| today's range Of prices $3.50 to $40
/ a barrel. Yesterdays sharp decline
! in wheat was given as the cause.
Cut Force and Time.
J Dubuque. Ia, Nov. 9.-The Farley
& Loetscher company whose factory
here is one of the largest sash and
door plants in the world. today issued
an order for the reduction of forces
in every department of their works.
The working day will be cut from
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