Show COTTON PROCESSING TAX PROBE BEGINS v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON April 20 UP UPA UP- UP A cabinet committee appointed by President Roosevelt undertook to today today today to- to day to determine causes of trouble complained of by the cotton textile industry New England governors recently complained to the president that mills were being forced out of business business business busi busi- ness by the cotton processing tax and foreign competition Th The committee consists of ot Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary of or Agriculture Henry A. A Wallace Wallace Wal Val Vallace lace Secretary of State Stat Cordeli Hull HuIl Secretary of Commerce DanIel Danid Daniel Dan Dan- id iel C. C Roper and Secretary of ot Labor Frances Perkins The president indicated his beHe belief belief be be- He lief some o of the industry's trouble might be traced to obsolete plant equipment This will be one of the principal points to be studied The industry's prot protests against the 42 cents a pound cotton processing processing processing sing tax brought fro from fron Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt a promise to estimate effects o of the levy ley in the light of their supposed relationship to the industry's industry's indus indus- try's present emergency |