Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-17
OPA Admits Plot

Urn NOmltS TOT
THE best thing the current congressional hearings on
the Office Of Prce Administration grade labelling
troeran have accomplished dissolve the illusion
tina, il is a war measure
The Office Of Price Administration is itself war
agency Of course and only function is 10 strengthen
the Wat effort and It's only powers exist for that exclusive
purpose
Accordingly The Oao, Of I"-cc Administration
unless was 20 confess obocvcs not related to the war
and usuriatiau of powers h did not possess by any
authority was under compulson assert and pretend
that grade labelling and augmentation of the American
people everything they eat and wear was necessary
and essential 10 the war.
But the utter faacy'of that assertion has been
placed in the records Of Congress
The Borea-Halcck committee has disclosed that the
grade labelling ard standardization program was not
devised as a war measure has nothing 70 do with the
war-but was in fact Of the earliest New Deal
projects designed to change the United States from
democracy 70 communistlc state.
IT WAS in fact before Congress and rejected by
l Congress, as the "Tugwe bill IN 1893.
Its author vras- Rexford Guy Tugwell then assistant
secretary of agriculture
1t is pertinent therefore to recall of the facts
about ReXford Guy Tugwell
In a speech in Los Angeles in 1885, he boldly called
for REVOLUTION in America
Demanding not merely the abandonment but the
OVERTHROW of the traditional American system of
free enterprise and production, he said:
"Our best strategy is to SURGE FORWARD WITH
THE WORKERS AND FARMERS OF THIS NATION
we should succeed for in establishing farmer
worker alliance which will CARRY ALL BEFORE 1T,
reducing our dependence HALFWAY MEASURES.
These historical changes are NEVER PLEASANT
We have however the duty of AVOIDING VIOLENCE
the process goes
"The autocrats get out of the way with the
MORAL SYSTEM that supports them. We shall have 10
recognize enemies GO forward with closed ranks
IT WILL NG% BE PLEASANT. These historical changes
are"
THE whole country shocked by this Tugwelllan
doctrine Of revolution, which merely HOPED to avoid
violence in the attainment of its detectives
Even the New Deal administration was frightened
by the implications and Mr.. Tugwell largely sup
pressed spokesman for the administration thereafter
and IN convenient time separated from the admins
tration-or appeared to be.
Ultimately he became governor of Puerto Rico and
still isand in that capacity he has forwarded precisely
the same revolutionary program he described his Los
Angeles speech program of grade labelling food
standardization and public RECOMMENDATION under which the
American system and conception of free enterprise and
production is impaired and its ultimate destruction is
envisaged
THE vital fact emphasized is that the current
Office of Price Administration grade labelling program
is not is not program but is the old Infamous
and revolutionary TUGWELL BILL which Congress
spurned 10 years ago
Now, however the Office of Price Administration is
using the war an excuse advance purpose Con
gress would consent and is doing it in actual and
deliberate defiance Of Congress-
The Boren- Haeck committee has done well to con-
suit the record this persistent and vicious attempt
destroy the American institutions and the free American
way Of life for which the present is being fought
The Office Of Price Administration should be con-
PEELED conne itself the functions for which II was
established and should be compelled to use its powers
within the framework Of the American system and
for the destruction of that system.