The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16

an extent that OPA will emerge & crippled warrior, badly handicapped in its further efforts to control prices and regulate rationing.
 Farm groups may be expected to bring out their old idea of having a separate agency set up in the De- , partment of Agriculture or the War Food Administration, to control all ] food-production, distribution, pric- ing and rationing-taking all food controls away from OPA.
 WHAT TO LOOK FOR
 A revival or something like the | proposed Pace amendment is apt to crop up. This is the proposal origin ally made by Congressman Stephen Pace of Americus, Ga, to include the costs of farm labor in determin- ing prices paid to farmers.
 Grade labelling amendments are likely to be presented. The Taft amendment to an appropriation bill now limits grade labelling, but grad ing of beef is part of meat price control and the meat industry might want to see restrictions on grading written into the price control act itself.
 Gamers, promised a subsidy last year, were told they could have it if their profits were under per cent on capital or under per cent on sales. Thus far, no canner has ap- piled for the subsidy, meaning that all made more than those amounts. Removal of this profit restriction is one thing the canning interests may seek.
 Corn-hog farmers may want as- surance there will be no drop in their floor prices. Dairymen, par ticularly in the high production cost, feed-deficit areas, want adjust ment on milk prices. Fruit and vege- table growers have their pet peeves against price control. Every food in- terest, in fact, has it's special plaint against OPA with 8 plea to have remedy written into the law.
 Landlords have their peeve against rent freezing orders, which grant no relief as long as rents are generally satisfactory in a given area. The | 4oA1A4OANo WOu4S 14hC UO 1ldNS Ull1S IGs EStriction removed so that individual EMoperty owners could make petition Mtr relief where they claim costs of @peration greater than rents receiv- d.
 REAL ESTATE, RAILROAD BEEFS
 Real estate brokers don't like OPA's restriction on property sales, requiring one-fifth of purchase price in cash as down payment, with three eviction can be ordered, after prop erty is sold.
 The railroad labor pay disputes have now generally quilted down, but an amendment taking wage rates of railway workers out from under the control of the Office of Economic Stabliization, as embodied in the now-dormant CroZier bill, is a distinct possibility.
 By far the most serious of all the amendments which may come up would be those which would redefine OPA's jurisdiction. Much of OPA's strength today lies in the fact that its orders can be appealed only through local administrators, then regional administrators, then OPA in Washington, and finally to the special Emergency Court of Appeals, It is not possible to go into other courts to ask for injunctions or re- straining orders against enforcement of OPA regulations. People who don't like OPA would like to see this changed. They'd like to be able to bring OPA into courts all over the country, get conflicting decisions and tie its operations in knot.
 You can jolly well see what fRn there is ahead, before OPA will get its new lease on life.