The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-09
JOBS WILL END
APRIL |, IS
REPORT
Marketing Pacts May
Be Kept by Force,
Is Belief
BY L. w. MEREDITH
international News Service

Still seeking q substitute for the
tulmbled AAA, President Roosevelt
scheduled a White House confer
ence this afternoon with his agri
cultural and financial advisers.
Those who will confer with the
Executive are Secretary Of Agri-
culture Wallace, Attorney General
Cummings, Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau, AAA Admins.
traitor Chester Davis, Acting Bud.
get Director Daniel Bell, and Her.
man Oliphant, General Counsel
for the Treasury.
The presence Of Bell indicated
that revision Of the 1936-1937 bud.
get estimates, neceSSitated as q
result of the Supreme Court rul-
ing which voided processing taxes,
was being discussed.
While AAA officials awaited
opening Of conferences with farm
organization leaders to try to
work out some plan for farm aid
legislation, the word went quietly
around among employees that
their jobs will expire April I'M
less Congress takes action mean
while.
Neither Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace nor AAA Ad-
ministrator Chester c. Davis had
anything to say about the en-
ployes, but employees themselves
admitted that they had been in
formed "unofficially" that their
employment would end by April
/ unless Congress finds a substi.
tute for AAA.
Marketing Pacts to Stand
Officially announcements came
forth seeking to hold part Of AAA
in effect-chiefly the licensing
and marketing agreements affect
ing the dairy industry and fruits,
vegetables and nuts.
Field agents were notified that
in the opinion Of the administra-
ton the Hoosac Mills case in
which the Supreme Court invali-
dated AAA production control and
processing taxes did not affect
the licensing and marketing agree
mentS.
Hearings will be held as rapidly
as possible, it was announced, on
new marketing agreements and
orders" provided in amendments
to the AAA passed by Congress
last year to avoid the questioned
licensing provisions Of the original
act.
Hearings on new marketing
agreements and orders already
have been held for the Florida
celery industry; the paper-shell
pecan industry, affecting some
5000 growers in Southeastern
States; the western vegetable in
dustry, affecting 10000 growers
in Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornia; the Colorado vegetable in
dustry, with 1900 growers: the
st. Louis and Boston milk mar
keting areas, affecting all but
independent milk dealers and
producers in those areas.
Milk Licenses Extant
Some % fluid milk marketing
licenses are nominally extant, but
no efforts have been made to en-.
force them since numerous ad-
verse court decisions last year.
Hearings on establishing market
ing agreements and orders under
the AAA amendments, in lieu Of
the licenses, will be held "as soon
as possible" in all areas, it was
announced.
Agreements are in effect in IL
vegetables and fruit industries,
chiefly the California desiduouS
fruits industry, with 10000 grow
ers; California, Washington and
Oregon walnutS, with $4,000 grow
ers: California dried prunes, H..
500 growers, and the southeastern
watermelon area comprising Geor-
gia, Florida, North and South
Carolina, with 10000 growers.
It is in the wheat, cotton, corn,
hogs, tobacco, rice, peanuts, and
sugar-beet and Sugar-cane field,
however, hitherto supported by
the processing taxes, that the
forthcoming conferences of Secre-
tary Wallace and AAA officials
with farm organization leaders
will be chiefly concerned.