FALL IN PRICES
NO SIGN OF PERMANENCY
SLUMP IN BOOT AND CLOTHING TRADES (BNIKD PRBS9 ASSOCIATION.—COPTMdHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 24th May.
The "newspapers are eagerly discussing the fall in prices of the necessaries of life, but there are no signs of a permanent falK Indeed, bread and sugar are likely to go higher, and rents are increasing.
Nevertheless, there is a record slump in boots in Northamptonshire, where the warehouses are so choked with supplies that a three days' working week is likely to come, into operation. The clothing trade in Leeds is also depressed, the factories no longer working at high pressure owing to orders stopping suddenly. It is evident that many people are unable to buy at the. present piices. The slump may mean the discharge of many workers.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 7
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134FALL IN PRICES Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 7
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