The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-09
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ns president said that because 60
 nanny people had Q great deal mora
 t than ever before, there was too
 much luxury buying. The answer
 1 tnat problem, he said, would be NNHnd in taxation and savings.
 Even Level Desired
 The president said he was trying fo act the national economy on a more even level, to avoid peaks and valleys.
 me new order, he said. was a ctep in that direction. although 1t oi1 not take up taxes or compulsory 1aEings. These were matters for congress, he said.
 Under questioning. he said, the 41mlnistration's goal for the new Nscal year still stood at &i6.O00, ,000,- 0DQ in additional revenue.
 The food control policy. the pres x4ent added, was being applied re- Bl1nally in an effort to prevent lo- cal Shortages and, conversely, con- 0ltsons of local oversupply.
 The president suggested that re- uqTters avoid over-playing scarci- tlse as well as surpluses, because situations change rapidly and the puhlic is sometimes confused by oter-emphasis on purely temporary conditions.
 In discussing ceilings for addition [ al commodities, Mir. Roosevelt was asked about prospects of specific dollars-and-cents prices on clothing. %Ie said there was no present need for such ceilings.
 ayrnes said the new OPA plan would following the line of the meat price ceiling program and would make 1t possible for housewives to chart their Buying in advance.
 Byrnes, under questioning, said st would be up to Food Administra- tor Chester c. Davis to apply spe- ellie ceilings on fresh vegetables. He also said he had asked Davis to re- view the farm labor situation, par ticularly the status of controls on farm wages now exercised by the agriculture department.
 More Power for McNutt
 AsiDed whether the effect of the executive order last night more or less froze workers in their jobs, Byrnes said without replying direct ly that MAnpower Commissioner Paul V. McNdtt received substan- tally greater power in the order. It 1ormalized his authority within the framework of the second price control act of last Oct. ?, Byrnes ex- plained.
 Tn effect. Byrnes said, McNutt was given formal power to do what he has been doing.
 Congress received cautiously Mir. Hoosevelt's s.larply-worded warning to help hold the lire against infla- ton or face the consequences of 8 runaway imitation.
 Most CongresSmen wanted to study the executive order carefully before commenting. Immediate con- gresstonal reaction indicated that the president would get support from divergent groups for his ob- jectiyes, but there were rumblings too Of opposition.
 Statement With Order
 fMy. Roosevelt. in a statement ac- cbmpanying the executive order, made it unmistakably clear that he plans to fight it out with Congress to assure continuance on an even more stringent basis of the anti. 1nflation program he set up last fall when he made James F. Byrnes the director of economic stabiliza- ton.
 '.I am exerting every power I pos- sess to preserve our stabilization program" Mir. Roosevelt said. T am sure the congress will cooperate"
 Specifically, MT. Roosevelt's exec utlye order provided:
 l. Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown and Food Administrator Chester Q. Davis are to have con- tr0l over all prices and were in- structed to place immediately ceil- ing prices lon all commodities af- fecting the cost of living" Any fur tlaer increase in ceiling prices flatly was banned except to the minimum extent required by law" If Congress wants the farmer to get more money for his crops, congress must provide it with subsidy money. s;Some prices affecting the cost of living are already above the levels Of Sept. 15. 1922" MT. Roosevelt said. "All of these cannot be rolled back. But some of these can and should be rolled back" 2. The war labor board was di- xected to authorize no further in- creases in wages or salaries except | such as are clearly necessary to cor rect substandards of living" and aside from reasonable adjustments | oS wages and salaries in case of pro- motions, rcclassifications, merit in- creases, incentive wages or the like" MF. Roosevelt also specifically pro- Vided the "little steel formula" of wage stabilization be retained by the VILE as It's primary yardstick. labor demands for abandonment of the formula to the contrary not Wlthstanding. 3. War Manpower Commission