Evening star., 1936-03-26
RESULTS0F Ira.
OBJECT OF STUDY.
Three Cabinet Members on
Committee Created
by President.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.


OF the National Recovery Admins
tration be made as complete as pos
sible as basis for future decisions,
President Roosevelt today created
special committee to conduct a survey
of this defunct New Deal agency.
This committee. created by execu-
tive order, will be known as the Com
mittee Of Industrial Analysis. 1t will
be headed by Daniel c. Roper, Sec
retary Of Commerce, and includes
Henry c. Wallace, Secretary of Agri-
culture and Frances Perkins, Secre-
tary Of Labor. Other persons outside
Of the Federal Government subse-
quently will be appointed.
Mr.. Roosevelt has sent directions
to those who will serve on this COM
mittee to bring to q conclusion, and
to make available to the public, an
analysis Of the operations Of the N. r.
A. codes. Those who will be appointed
to the committee, not now associated
with the Government, will be asked
by the President to prepare a more
general and final survey Of the ad-
ninistration of Title of the national
industrial recovery act as a whole.
New Division Created.
The Executive order also created
q new division in the ofice of the
Secretary Of Commerce to assist the
committee In carrying out its duties
This new division will be known as
the Division Of Industrial Economics
The Executive order In full follows:
by virtue Of and pursuant to the
authority vested in me by the emer-
gency relief appropriation act Of 1888,
it is hereby ordered as follows:
"I There is hereby created a Com
mittee Of Industrial Analysis to COM
plete the summary Of the results and
accomplishments Of the National Re-
covery Administration. The Secretary
Of Commerce shall be chairman of the
committee and the other members
shall be the Secretary Of Agriculture.
the Secretary Of Labor and such other
persons. not now officers of the United
States. as the President may hereafter
specially appoint.
Duties Are Given.
III. The entire Committee OF In
dustrial Analysis shall
(a) Assemble and analyze the sta
tistical information and governmental
records Of experience of the operations
Of the various trades and industries
heretofore subject to codes of fair COM
petition formulated under the author
ity of Title of the national industrial
recovery act; and
(b) Study the effects of such codes
upon trade. industrial and labor con-
ditions in general; and
(c) Make generally available in
formation with respect to industry,
particularly hours, wages. child labor
and other labor conditions Provided
that nothing in this order shall be
construed to authorize the Committee
of Industrial Analysis to collect from
the general public current statistical
information, or to duplicate the
statistical work now being performed
by any existing agency Of government.
iii. Those members of the Com
mittee Of Industrial Analysis who are
hereafter specially appointed shall
prepare for the President an adequate
and final review of the effects Of the
administration Of title ! of the ma
tional industrial recovery act upon
particular industries or problems and
as a whole.
Nv. In order to aid the Committee
OF Industrial Analysis in carrying out
its duties and to furnish employment
for and assistance to educational. pro-
fessional and clerical persons. there Is
hereby created. In connection with
the office Of the Secretary of Com
merce, Division Of Industrial Eco
nomics. This Division of Industrial
Economics shall be subject to the gen.
eral supervision Of the Committee Of
Industrial Analysis and shall assist
such committee In carrying out its
functions.
Authority Is Cited.
"V The Committee of Industrial
Analysis shall have authority to:
(a) Appoint and fix the compensa-
ton Of q chief Of the Division of In
dustrial Economics and other neces-
sary officers and employees without re-
gard to the civil service laws or the
classification act Of 1923 as amended;
and
(b) Supervise the expenditure of
the 100000 transferred by the Presi-
dent in March, 1886, from the funds
available under the emergency relief
appropriation act of 1885 to the De-
partment Of Commerce; and
(c) Utilize, with the consent of the
Secretary Of Commerce, the admins
trative services, accounting facilities.
supplies and available space of the
Department Of Commerce;
wi. The files, records, equipment
and property transferred to the De-
partment Of Commerce from the Ma
tional Recovery Administration by the
authority Of Executive Order No. 1882,
dated December 81, 1885, shall be
made available to the Committee Of
Industrial Analysis and the Division
of Industrial Economics. The en-
ployes transferred by said executive
order shall be eligible for. but shall
not be automatically entitled to, en-
ployment under the authority Of para
graph 4 (a) of this order.
WI. This order shall become et-
fective April l."