Show Price-Fixing Price Goes The recent decision of the PresIdent President President dent to abandon price fixing feat ores of some sonic major industrial co- co codes codes co codes des is of exceptional importance tance It seems from flom the growing be- be be belief lief that price fixing is inimical to the consumer conC and the small bust bUSI bUSIness bustness business ness man The Dal Darrow row report I which was as h tremendously publicized I concentrated attention on that There nips may be much to be saId saIdI I for price pace fixing used as a weapon to eliminate destructive and waste waste- wasteful wasteful wasteful ful competition But there is grave glave doubt if the American people could be brought to stand for It Free Pree competition with each ch unit within an industry striving to give better service at a more reasonable pace is part of the American busy busyness business ness tradition When the PresIdent started the attempt to fie prices he intimated that Ita it was a purely ex- ex ex experimental he congratulated he is to be congratulated on making a change when he saw caw that it would not work as hoped A poll made by Fortune among executives of our principal indus Indus- industries industries tries produces the fact that 85 per cent of them believe that the main results of the codes lie he in their wage and working that provISIons provisions that great eat gainS in m this direction have been made and that they should not be lost That is 15 certainly a progressive progressive eive sive and now that price price- price fixing fixing is to be ended the labor laborI I u features are again preeminent The American people as alwa always s swant want labor to be amply paid and but protected protected but they do not want ant revolutionary changes made in m our time honored gO gOel governmental el or InI industrial in I scheme of things |