The cost of living, based on figures since 1914, has
increased 9 per cent more than the increased income of labor, according to the
results of an investigation made by the New York industrial commission among
the factory works of the state. The figures at best are only approximate, but
they tend to dispel the idea that the increase in the cost of labor has
advanced 500 per cent. The commission places the cost of living and the cost of
labor in 1914 at 100, and found that in June 1918 the figures were: Earnings,
177, and prices 186.
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