Evening star., 1934-07-15
BOARD Of APPEALS.
NAMED BY n. R. A..
Special Body Will Act on
Complaints of Oppression
by Small Firms.
BIZ the Associated Press


National Recovery Administration
yesterday created an Industrial APP
peals Board for the special protection
of small businesses against monopo-
lies
Amos J. Peaslee. q New York attor-
ney. was named chairman and John
S. Clement. u Philadelphia msnuiac-
turer. one OF the other two members.
The third member will be chosen
shortly
The board. which will organize Au-
gust | was established in an order oy
Hugh S johnson. The official an
nouncement did not say so. but at N.
r. A. the new Appeals Court was re-
garded as Johnson's own way OF hano-
ling monopoliStic charges against Blue
Eagle codes which Clarence DarroW
Review Board originally was named
to do.
Board Charges Denied.
The Darrow Board. which has
passed out of existence by President
Roosevelt's order, in three reports said
N r. A. was fostering monopolies.
The charges were denied just as Wig
orously by Johnson.
APPOINTMENT of the board also was
regarded as another step in johnson
reorganization of N. r. A. for admin
istrative work in manner to get
away from one-man rule.
N r. A. said the new board, be-
sides hearing complaints. also would
act on certain types of compliance
cases and lis expected to greatly Stlm-
ulate code compliance 1t added.
1T will function in somewhat the
same fashion as the recently abolished
National Compliance Board. making
recommendations for action by the
administrator.
In cases Of complaints by small
business it may recommend the
granting OF relief by exemptions. ex-
ceptions or notifications and will be
adequately equipepd to insure prompt
disposition of the complaints referred
to it."
Offices Are Chosen.
The board will take over offices In
the Commerce Department formerly
occupied by the National Labor Board.
Peaslee. who has been acting as
chief of the N. R. A. compliance division
is a member of the New York firm OF
Peaslee and Brigham. He is a grad
uete of Swarthmore College. Columbia
University and Birmingham Univer-
sity in England. A Republican and
Quaker. Peaslee was attached as a
major to General Pershing'S head
quarters in France during the war
and served as Judge Advocate OF the
general court-martial. He was asso-
ciated also with the American COM
mission to negotiate peace.
Clement is president of the Sandura
Company. Inc. of Philadelphia, man
ulacturerS of floor coverings.
Text Of Johnson Order.
The order creating the board said:
There is hereby established a board
consisting OF three members. to be
appointed by the administrator which
shall be known as the N. r. A. Indus
trial Appeals Board, TO act on all COM
plants of inequitable application OF
codes to small enterprises or other
wise. The administrator will select
three members.
such board shall:
"(A) Hear and recommend to the
administrators the proper disposition
of: Complaints concerning N. r. A,
especially those alleging that code
provisions are designed to or tend to
eliminate, oppress, or discriminate
against small enterprises, or to favor
monopolistic tendencies; and COM
plants of noncompliance.
"(B) Advise and make recon-
mendations to the administrators with
respect to effect Of code provisions on
small enterprises.
such board shall adopt rules gov
erning matters of procedure and or
ganiZation.
The members Of the board are
Amos J. Peaslee, chairman, John S.
Clement.
BY direction of the administrator:
George A. Lynch, administrative
officer"