Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-04-11 | Page 7 | Hines Balks at Price Schedule

iHINES IMS JT PBKfflFME President Asked to Intercede Inter-cede in Break Between U. S. Agencies. "WASHINGTON'. April 10.presld5nt Wilson will be appealed to immediately I by cable to take a hand in the contro-1 contro-1 versy between the railroad adtninistra-i adtninistra-i tion and the department of commerce's ! industrial board, which was broueht to ! a head hite today by the definite and i final refusal ol" 1 dree tor General Hines to accept the new steel price schedule unproved by the board after conferences with the steel industry. This announcement was made in a statement issued for the industrial board by its chairman, Geor?e N. Feek. after the director general had made public his final decision. The open break between be-tween the two government agencies came after Mr. nines and Chairman Feek had conferred for about an hour. Mr. Hines based his refusal to accept the prices on the grounds that the prices were "too high"; that the industrial board had no power to impose its schedule on the railroad administration, and that the restoration of industry to a peace basis "would be retarded" if a governmental agency were bound by the board's recommendations. rec-ommendations. In a statement denouncing tho attitude of the railroad administration by which It was asserted "the government is exhibited ex-hibited as setting up an Industrial policy with one hand and destroying it with another." an-other." Chairman Peek warned anainst tne railroad ad minis tra lion's exercise of i its power of "monopolistic buying'' of i rails and declared that "the director gen-i gen-i eral must assume full responsibility for 1 all the results of the course he has j chosen.'