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TYPICAL CHANGES IN QUALITY OF WOMEN'S MISSES', AND JUNIOR SUITS (CATEGORIES 6 AND 7) BY WHOLESALE PRICE LINES

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Source: Interviews by staff, New York district office.

Dr. WARE. A survey conducted by the American Home Economics Association in January of this year in 40 States yielded reports from 323 home economists, trained to judge quality, that quality of textiles and clothing had deteriorated, as against 5 who reported that they had no experience of quality deterioration. The evidence could be multiplied many times, and in many lines. Incidentally, this is particularly a problem for consumer goods. It is not a problem with respect to industrial materials, because industrial materials are sold on the basis of standard specifications, and prices are stated customarily in terms of those standard specifications. This refers to goods in the consumer market.

We therefore recommend that the new price-control act specifically direct the Price Administrator to set prices in terms of quality specifications, using existing standards where these are available, developing standards where none exist and where such standards are feasible, and using specifications where standards have not been or cannot be used. We are convinced, beyond the slightest shadow of doubt, that there is no other feasible means of genuine price control.

The second weakness which the new act should overcome is in enforcement. I think that you will agree that the only fully satisfactory form of price control is one which the purchaser can help to enforce whenever she makes a purchase. If the buyer cannot know whether or not she is paying a legal price, she can be party to dozens of illegal sales every day-especially if sellers themselves are not always sure whether or not their charges are legal. The vast majority of American people do not want to violate the law, to create a black market by their own illegal acts. But only if articles are so priced and so labeled that consumers can know what they are doing can they avoid this kind of action. Dollars-and-cents price ceilings, such as those now applying to many foods, are prices which we, as consumers, can help to enforce. Most others are not. Moreover, how can the purchaser cooperate with his Government in holding to established prices when products are not labeled according to their grade, where such grades exist and they can be so labeled?

We urge that the present ban on the grade-labeling requirement in price orders be removed and that the Price Administrator be directed as far as possible to set dollars-and-cents ceiling prices based on quality specifications so that buyers can know the legal ceilings and help to enforce them.

Lest you are unaware that the use of A, B, C grade labels is a familiar practice in the industry, and lest you may not realize that grades are always used in conjunction with, not in substitution for, brand names, I should like to offer for the record a list of the grade-labeled products of some 47 canners, representing some 150 brands.

(The list referred to is as follows:)

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United States continuous factory in-
spected canners

Apple juice

Apple sauce

Asparagus

Apricots

Apples

Beans, dried

Beans, lima

Beans, snap

Beets

Blackberries, logan

Carrots

Cherries, sulfur

Standards

Cherries, red sour

Cherries, sweet

Corn

Fruits for salad

| Grapefruit concentrate

Figs, Kadota

Fruit cocktail

| Grapefruit juice

Grapefruit

Okra

Orange juice

Orange and grapefruit blend

Orange juice concentrate

Peaches

Pears

Peas

Pineapple juice

Pimientos

Plums

Raspberries, red, black

Pumpkins, squash

Spinach, greens

Sweet potatoes Tomatoes

Tomato catsup

Tomato juice

Tomato pulp

Succotash

United States grade labeled
brands

Tex-Zest, Slones.
Tri-Valley, Naturmade, Cala-
made, Cock-of-the-Walk, Old
Mill, Cock-of-the-Land,
Sunny Smile, Taste O' the
West, Sierra.

X

X

X

Best west, West Peak, Mellowest, Britewest, Honor Pak. Wegner.

Yes Madame, Home Range.

Dewco.

XXXX Ritter.

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