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...Steering Gear. Both moves were taken with the full blessings of President Roosevelt, Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, and Price Czar Prentiss M. Brown. Both were aimed to head off John Lewis' continued demand for a $2 a day raise for his miners, and to quiet the rumbles of dissatisfaction from other labor leaders, who claim that wages are being frozen while prices are allowed to run free. And both moves foretold the end of the price-fixing philosophy that has prevailed in Washington for the past year...
This week Congressmen threatened to sabotage Prentiss Brown's new program. But Brown was confident that he would succeed. First move will be to get the RFC to pay the subsidies. Second move will be to carry the fight to Congress itself and get outright appropriations. Prentiss Brown pointed out that a provision for subsidies is contained in the original price-control...
Timing his attack to meet labor's charges that retail prices have skyrocketed beyond reach, Price Boss Prentiss Brown promised: 1) to extend price control to "every important commodity"; 2) to roll back prices which have got out of hand (meat, fresh and canned vegetables, coffee); 3) to establish specific dollars-&-cents maximum prices for all foods...
...Chief Prentiss Brown has demurred, has hinted only that something might be done if the independents made "the strongest kind of showing...
...argument over sugar for home canning. Messrs. O'Leary and Rowe said there was not enough sugar to give housewives an extra supply; consumers must give up a lot of ration coupons to get canning sugar. The slide-rulers stubbornly insisted nothing else would work. But Prentiss Brown went to the Agriculture Department and the War Shipping Administration, worked out an arrangement to import 200,000 tons of Cuba sugar for home canners, who will get it without surrendering ration coupons...