Show WHAT KIND OF CONTROLS CONTROB mark Sid sullivan livan notes gressun pressun Pres sun from farm 4 group and labor congress if Is fon contending rontendlng fontending tending about an n economic control act whether to continue the present one now stop gapping capping until july 31 or to write what amounts to a different one or to have none at all president truman says there must be economic control controls and strong one ones else there will t b disaster eluding domcrtlc dometlc domet lc inflation and defeat in our struggle tr uRle against world communism top controller wilson gayr much the same administration spokesmen beat the drums for continued controls and stiff one on the other ildc 0de ade and increasing number of f voices contend tha that t there should be no economic controls at nil that they make for inflation instead of checking I 1 na n9 it that they reduce production ot of goods for the war effort instead of stimulating it that they are wrong at all times as a matter of economic principal these voices however are largely lost in the din of administration propaganda for more controls upon the country more power for the administration superficial all that composes the super iclal picture the deeper and truer ruer picture is that whether he the country is to have controls is s being determined by group pressures es sures what congress does s largely the result of these pressures ares sures As respects whether there will be control controls it la Is not extreme to say in a phase ot of collun columnist nist sys sylvia iv ar porter that we have 11 pressure group government in n america the pressure groups are many washington is a hive of representatives of them and propagandists tor for them among them two groups stand out because of their direct relation to the issue of economic controls and because of the weight they have in politics either through the pressures they exert or the difference of politicans politicians politi cans in both parties to them as voters the 7be abe two are labor and farmers the power that labor has in government Is divided between power in congress and brid power in the administration congress as a whole is not friendly to the labor leaders and organizations it remembers and resents the raucousness of their attacks upon a labor relations law that congress passed the taft hart ley act it knows and resents their attempt to take a direct hand in the election of candidates tor for congress belonging to both parties illustrated by the elaborate organization which labor leaders and unions set up and the nature of the campaign they made to defeat sen taft of ohio last november the number of members of congress who resent attempts by organized labor to influence actions by congress is lar larger than the number who are me identified n with labor and its legislative pu romes labor would not have conspicuous power in government if it depended only on congress much power with the administration how ever it is a different matter here labor has much power some of it given willingly some of it a reluctant yielding to pressure in the present controversy over controls president truman saya says he Is for control over wages and when the agency tn in charge of wages put a ceiling over them mr truman backed up tho the agency yet labor broke the ceilings flouted the agency in control of wages demanded and got larger representation for labor in the setup set getup get up of control controls this labor could bardl hardl hardly have achieved except through througg through yielding by the administration labor has power that Is a fact and on the problem whether there are to bo be economic controls it is a determining fact during the very days when congress was debating about control over wages labor leaders and unions were demanding and getting frequent wage raises As respects to control over wage rates congress had the power which legislated this control last september the administration had the power which decreed the control but labor had the power to get wage raises it wanted it was labor that had the reality of power and the reality Is what will determine whether there will be further rise in the wage price level further rise in cost of living further inflation rollback As to the political power ac corded to farmers fan ners its existence is glaringly illustrated by what congress d did d about the rollback in prices of beef one can I 1 imagine m agine a referendum of consumers of beef who are about the whole of thepopulation the the population it if as asked ked whether they approve a rollback in the price of beef it seems tenable benr tenr ble to assume that 99 out of 100 would vote approval heartily yet a majority of congress voted against the rollback that had already been decreed what congress did was in part a response to demands by spokesmen for the interest of farmers demands that were strident and were accompanied by pressure and propaganda in jn part what congress did was a voluntary deference by man ganv manv members to what they as POT politicians and aspirants fe for re elec tion think would please farmers as voters vivid in their minds was recollection that in 1948 truman won the presidential election largely by carrying midwest mid west farm states in which during his campaign he had promised increased government largess for farmers |