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Show BARUCM IS IDE II INDUSTRIES BDfiDDJllDIl Reorganization With Vastly Vast-ly Increased Powers of Control Is Announced by President Wilson. BECOMES GENERAL OVERSEER OF SUPPLY Propose to Eliminate All Competition Between the Various Departments and the Allies, WASHINGTON. March 5. Reorganization Reorganiza-tion of tho war Industries board, with Bernard M. Barucil of Now Yolk OS chairman and with vastly increased powers pow-ers to control tho output of American industry in-dustry during tho war, was announced to. day by President Wilson. Final determination of all Questions of priority In deliveries to any department of the United States government and to the allies Is Invested In the board, and It is charged with co-ordinating and anticipating an-ticipating the needs of any of these, creating or Improving facilities for production pro-duction and advising as to prices. Much of the power Is given to the chairman, with tho board acting In an advisory capacity, and he, tho president says, should "act as tho general eye of ali supply departments in ihm field of industry." in-dustry." Through tho board it Is proposed to ellimlnate all competition for supplies between be-tween tho various departments and the allies, thus meeting, in a measure at least, the demand In congress for centralization cen-tralization of power. Thero were sugges-j tlons today that tho action now announced an-nounced was ona of the Bteps contemplated contem-plated by the president when he eent to the senate tho bill now pending to enlarge en-large his powers for reorganizing and co-oruinating co-oruinating government agencies, and that the delay in bringing the measure to a vote caused him to proceed without waiting wait-ing for legislation. Lf the bill is passed it will be possible to make moro specilic Eome of the authority now given tiio Industries In-dustries board. Prescribes Duties. The president prescribed the new duties of the board in a letter to Mr. P.aruch requesting him to accept the chairmanship chairman-ship as successor to Daniel Willard, who recently resigned to devote his entire attention at-tention to his duties as president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and as chairman chair-man of the advisory commission of the council of national defense. The president's letter to Mr. Barucn follows: I am writing to aslc lf you will not accept appointment as chairman of the war industries board, and I am going to take the liberty at the same time of outlining tho functions, the constitution and action of the board as I think they should now be etsab-lished. etsab-lished. , , The functions of the board should be" Plrot The creation of new facilities and the disclosing, lf necessary, the opening up, of new additional sources of supply; . , , M Second The conversion of existing facilities, where necessary, to new USTn'lrd The studious conservation of re-ources and facilities by scientific, commercial and industrial economies! Fourth Advice to the several purH chasing agencies of tho government with regard to the prices to be paid; Determine Priorities. pifth The determination, wherever recessary, of priorities of production and of delivery and of the proportions of any given article to be made Immediately Im-mediately accessible to the several purchasing agencies when the supply of that article Is Insufficient, either temporarily or permanently; S1xth The making of purchases for thThe"board should be constituted as at present and should retain, so far as necessary and so far as consistent with the character and purposes of the reorganization, its present advisory ad-visory agencies; but the ultimate de-H.inn de-H.inn of all questions, except the de-.irmVnatlon de-.irmVnatlon of Prices, should rest al- w'th the chairman, the other members acting In a co-operative and ivunrv capacity. The further organization or-ganization 0Pf advice I will indicate LCInW'te determination of Priorities of production, when It Is not poss b o to Save the full supply of any article that Is needed, produced at once 1 e chairman should be assisted and so far as practicable guided, by the present priorities organization or its equivalent. Should Co-operate. In the determination of priorities of delivery when they must be determined de-termined he should be assisted when '."ary in addition to the present ad'vi'-ory priorities organization, by ' fl e advice and co-operation of a committee com-mittee constituted for the purpose a ,-onsistlng of official representatives representa-tives of the food administration, the fuel administration, the railway administration, ad-ministration, the shipping board and the war trade board, in order that when a priority of delivery has been determined there may be common, consistent and concerted action to carry it into effect. . . .. In tho determination of prices the chairman should be goverped by the advice of a committee consisting, be,-Cldes be,-Cldes himself, of the members of the hoard Immediately charged with tho Mludv of raw materials and of nian-iil-ictured products. of the labor ,, ember of the board, of tho ckalrman f'lho federal trudo commission, the chairman "f the tariff commission, u. d the fuel administrator. ' The limliman should be constantly and systcijiHllrally informed of all (Continued on Pago Two.) DJUIUGH HEADS WAR 1MES EM (Continued from Page One.) contracts, purchases and deliveries in order that he may have always before be-fore him a schematized analysis of the progress of business in the several sev-eral surply divisions of the government govern-ment in all departments. The duties of the chairman are: One To act for the joint and several sev-eral benefit of all the supply departments de-partments of liie government. Two To let ah he what is beiny successfully d-me and interfete as little lit-tle as possible with the present norma! nor-ma! processes of purchase and delivery de-livery in the several deaprtments. Guide Contracts. Three To guide and assist wherever wher-ever the need for guiriifTice or assistance as-sistance may be reveaied: For example ex-ample in the allocation of contracts In obtaining access to materials In any way pre-em; ted, or in the disclosure dis-closure of sources of supply. Four To determine what is to be done when there is any con. petitive or other conflict of interests between departments in the matter of supplies: sup-plies: For example, when ir.ere is lint a sufficient immediate supplv for ail, and there must be a dec. si. n as to priority of need or daiiver, or when there is competition for the same source of manufacture or supply, sup-ply, or when contracts have not been piaced in scnlh a way as to tet advantage ad-vantage of the full productive capacity ca-pacity of the, country. Five To see that contracts an.l deliveries de-liveries are followed up where such assistance as is Indicate,! under n'.) and (11 above has proved to be necessary. lx To anticipate the pmspectlvo needs of the several supply departments depart-ments of the government and ibMv feapible adjustment to the indunrv of the country as far in advance aa ro?f?n le, in order that as definite an outlook and opportunity for plannir? as possible may be a::oruei tU business men of the country. In brief, he should act aa the sen-era! sen-era! eye of all supply d t p a r i me n u in the field of industry'." |
