DRAPERY PRICES
PROFITEERING DENOUNCED. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] i LONDON, September 19. Typifying the widespread effort to stamp out profiteering, a meeting of the Drapers’ Chamber of Commerce strongly denounced profiteering and agreed that there was no justification for an increase in drapery prices above 5 per cent. , It was stated that wholesalers and retailers were exacting rises of 20 to 25 per cent. The “Daily Herald” says: “The meanest type of profiteering is occurring in goods for air raid precautions, including black cloth used for darkening windows.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1939, Page 8
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