In the meat packing industry where
profits were said to have increased
between 300 and 400 per cent, the la
bor item was shown so small that a
wage increase of 100 per cent, would
add less than five per cent, to th
total cost of the meat. The increase
in price between 1914 and 1918 waa
shown as eight times the total labol
cost and the 1918 price represented 25
times the total labor item.
Profits absorb approximately one
half the retail price of certain kinds
of cloth, the report declared, while
the labor items amounts to from one
fourteenth to one-twentieth of the
price. Similar relations were pictured
in the manufacture of men's gar
ments.
Shoes, according to the study, "fur
nished a splendid opportunity for the
profiteer." The profit items in 1914
it was charged, absorbed nearly one
half the price paid by the consumer,
or nearly three times the total labor
cost, while in 1917 the profit items
amounted to approximaely three-fifths
of the total price and more than five
times the labor cost.
Increases in the retail price of bi
tuminous coal - were shown at f out
times the increase in labor costs while
the proportion of the proceeds of the
Coroner John J. Phelan finds thai
Anthony Rothario was not responsi
ble for the death of Liewis Sulle, who
died suddenly on May 3 at the Acorn
Athletic club while sparring.
