Evening star., 1933-06-27
ROPER, JOHNSON
END DIFFICULTIES
Declare Reported Dispute
Over Industrial Control
Is Cleared Away.

The reported dissension over author
ity to administer the industrial control
section of the national recovery act was
reported today by both Secretary oi
Commerce Roper and Administrator
Hugh S. johnson as having been cleared
away.
The Cabinet Advisory Committee. OF
which Roper is chairman, held a con-
ference late yesterday, which was at
tended by johnson. After it was over
johnson, in answering newspaper mems
queries about the friction report, said
That's lot of bunk He'll, there
is no dissension. I couldn't have had
more help If had written the ticket
myself"
1t had been reported that Roper and
johnson were al odds over who had
the final authority in approving the
policies of the administration. There
was also friction reported in regard
to employing of workers for the admin
istration and the setting up of the
organization proper.
Threatened to Move.
Roper suggested that johnson take
over certain divisions of the Commerce
Department, to be used as the basis
ported to have refused and threatened
to move his headquarters from the
Commerce Department Building.
Roper told 49 industrial and financial
leaders yesterday that the Cabinet
Committee for Industrial Control was
''the commander in chief under the
President" Asked what this meant,
Roper said johnson would be the de-
Gliding factor "in the unlikely event of
an honest difference of opinion" be-
tween him and the cabinet board dur
ing President Roosevelt's absence from
washington.
Later, the press department of the In
dustrial Control Board issued the fol-
lowing statement regarding the So
called peace parley:
THE special board, headed by Sec
retary OF Commerce Roper, completed
arrangements for housing of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration in the
Department of Commerce Building and
committed the handling of disburse-
ments and personnel of the admins
tration to established agencies of the
Commerce Department.
Consider Salary Scales.
"Details of employing the statistical
agencies of the Departments of Com
merce, Agriculture and Labor in the
collection of the necessary statistical
information for administration of the
act were referred blythe special board
to subcommittee, including Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce John Dickin-
son and DR.. Alexander Sachs, economic
adviser Of the administration.
The special board also gave con-
sideration to salary scales to be en-
ployed by the National Recovery Ad-
ministration and to the question of
public relations. Assistant Attorney
General H. M. Stephens presented a
report on the procedure to be followed
by the administration in handling pro-
posed codes. Preliminary considera-
tion also was given to the matter oil
handling the oil industry"
In addition to Roper, johnson and
Dickinson, other members of the board
present at the meeting were Attorney
General Cummings, Secretary of the
interior Ickes, Secretary of Labor Per-
Kins. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Tugwell, Chairman Charles H. March
of the Federal Trade Commission, Di-
rector of the Budget Lewis Douglas, As
sistant Attorney General Stephens, As
sistent Secretary of Labor Turner w
Battle and E. Willard Jensen.