| Show VA W ar C N washington D 0 FARMER PRICE VICTORY louis J taber national grange president and other farm leaders come away empty handed from their conference with the president on price control while he would not agree to their proposal that wages be included in the price control bill drafted by price administrator leon henderson roosevelt Hoo sevelt did make one important concession ile he said he would have no objection to a parity averages formula being put in the bill to limit the dumping of government owned wheat and cotton when the prices of these commodities threaten to soar out of bounds under this formula to insure farmers an overage average parity price for the full crop year restrictions would be placed on the amount of wheat and cotton that could be sold also the dumping could not begin until prices reach certain above parity levels to be worked out by henderson and the department of agriculture taber and his colleagues had to do some fast talking to sell the president on this plan at first he seemed in no mood to accept any changes in the bill and told his callers that it if they had come to debate the tha question of controlling farm prices they were wasting their time we have simply got to head oft off inflationary trends the president declared grimly or face the worst depression the country has ever known after this emergency is over the farm leaders finally won him over to their plan with the assurance that they would not oppose hendersons system of selective price controls providing the parity gains won althis at this session were not lost taber pointed out that though the prices of wheat and cotton are now only ohly slightly below parity and livestock above it farmers get only 43 i per cent of the consumers dollar spent for jor farm products as against 60 pei per cent in 1917 when defense production was geared to the peak paak it has reached today NEV tabor LABOR HE HEADACHE ADACHE strikes are still a serious problem but but the big labor headache currently harrying defense chiefs is the complex and mounting difficulty of employment dislocations almost every day brings new reports of workers let out due to io lack of materials forced curtailment of production or other defense causes Off official iclal estimate such dismissals put the number at between one and two million and the end endis is not in sight some experts anticipate that in the auto industry alone workers W will loso lose their jobs aware of the serious economic consequences of such dislocations heads are making strenuous efforts to overcome them so far only jonly partial answers havet been found originally tried to handle such dismissals by local absorption this worked all right in towns with industries engaged in defense work they could use the displaced hands and gladly took them on but in communities where this condition did not exist other solutions had to be found various methods have been used in some instances defense orders have ave been granted to reopen shutdown plants in other cases where conversion of a plant possible an entire nav new defense plant has been erected in town in still other instances workers have been given retraining instruction and moved to places where labor was needed defense chiefs count on floyd od lum bums a reorganized subcontracting division to td take up most of the slack on defense dislocations odium originally estimated it would take two months to set up administrative machinery but chiefs are arc urging him to turn ills his attention to getting subcontracts sub contracts facts now and rounding out his organization as he goes along MERRY GO ROUND the american association for economic freedom has reprinted an n address made more mor ethan than 10 years ago by I 1 federal judge robert N NW wilkin ilkin of cleveland on A new social order in which he advocated a union of the english speaking countries to resist the totalitarian aggressors heavyweight champ joe louls outs soon to be drafted is tackling what he describes as the biggest fight of amy my career ile he has sent a h circular letter to every member of I 1 congress asking them for help to raise a fund for a movement to improve the economic condition of negroes it ii advertised but the army now has a regular military air service across both the north and south atlantic operating on schedule dule just as 03 punctually as any commercial airway in the USA good news for the troops eaten by chiggers in the louisiana maneuvers denton crowl ol of toledo had just discovered a chemical which will make them os as scarce as amer lean ican heavy bombers jesse jcsse jones Is angling to get john hertz original king of th the yellow taxis in chicago appointed to the maritime commission |
