Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1947 — Page 7
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Industry Spokesmen Oppose Abolition; Bill Offered to Stop Coupon System Now
By 8. BURTON HEATH % NEA Staff Writer hi NEW YORK, Feb, 5.—Forty-cent-a-pound sugar for your coffee, i cereals and home cooking—15-cent candy bars—$3-a-pound chocolates if 4n tha plainest boxes—and a greater scarcity, even at such prices, than [1 ‘at any time during the war— iE That is what experts say to expect If rationing and price controls should be taken off sugar at this time, as there is danger they may be.
President Truman has asked conto extend .the controls on for a year, L.. The 40-cent-a-pound figure for household sugar is a guess: Nobody really knows how high the sweet i stuf! will go if the brakes are taken ¥ off .
§ But it is the guess of James Mar- § shall, head of the. department of & agriculture’s sugar branch, and of # Earl B. Wilson of San # president of the California & Hawali Sugar Refining Co. and Mr. Marshall's wartime predecessor. Speaking individually, from opposite sides of the continent, each answered a question as to how high sugar would go, if it were turned loose now, with “40 cents—or more,” Other insiders say this is not an unreasonable estimate. Situation Is Unigue
The sugar situation 1s unique because everybody concerned-—grow-ers, processors, importers, dealers, Industrial users and householders— all want price controls and rationing maintained for a whilé longer. Yet there are these real dangers that both may be taken off too jsoon ONE: Representative Price H. Preston, Georgia Democrat, has introduced a bill to abolish rationing immediately.
TWO: Whatever happens to this
bill, the government's power to ration will die automatically on March 31, when the Second War Powers act expires, unless congress affirmatively to extend that uthority, THREE: Federal Judge Letts, in|
‘Washington, has ordered the OPA |
0 stop rationing to industrial users lon the “historical use” formula. he ruling is effective immediately pt as it has been stayed. by the government's appeal. Carl uerbach, chief OPA counsel, says
funy threatens the entire ra- |
5) program. POUR: The government's thority to control prices dies June 30,
th the OPA, unless congress takes | 7 tion to let the. department of | A
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nal | sub-committee: that controls ald be maintained tor the time
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jar-exchange abroad would prevent
disastrous auction for the world | ¥ apply. He would like to have the! e begin trading this spring In" 1948 futures, But he thought rationing and! control ‘should be continued | hrough 1947. The danger of 40-cent sugar— d a skyrocket pricing of all 3 which sugar is a ‘major ingredi8 from the very real short- ¥ in supply that still exists. Ihe danger from Judge Letts’|c is this on 1946 industrial food procesprs used 2,500,000 short tons of the D,000 available for American Io Ian 0 beverage and syrup makers, 500,- |} DOO to bakeries, 408,000 to candy-
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000 tons for table use plus 785,000 tons for canning, a total of 1,960,000 tons—less than four-fifths as much as the industrial allowance. Industrial’ sugar was allocated on the only workable basis the administrators could devise—60 per cent of the amount used by each in 1941, with more or less arbitrary allowances to new-comers in the field. Judge Letts’ decision was in a sult brought by one ‘df these new-comers who complained that he was discriminated against and. that new-
cal use” yardstick. If It's Wide Open But even the old-established firms have been getting only a fraction of the sugar they used in 1041— most of them 60 per cent. Unless the government could find some workable allocation method to replace “historical use,” industrial users would be left free to go into the sugar market and buy whatever sugar they could find, ahead of householders. Under a wide open system, even if industrial users confined themselves to the 1041 basis, the 1,700,000 additional tons they would be free to buy—and which experts say they could get ahead of householders because of their preferred position as i hig’ purchasers—would use up all but 260000 of the 1,960,000 tons! available for home use.
alow less than four pounds a per- | son for domestic consumers as contrasted with the 25 pounds available in 1946 for eating and canning. All of this is theoretical and based upon 1946 figures.
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Cold Shortens Supply, Stockyard Prices Rise
Cold weather kept a number of farmers from the Union Stockyards today with the result that short ‘supplies pushed prices up. It proved a stimulant in all departments as steers gained strong to 50 cents while vealers were up a dollar, Fat lambs gained fully 25 cents
Shoe Stockpile Brings Warning
RE NEW YORK, Peb. 5 (U. P)— [email protected] | | Shoe dealers, with plenty of full | boxes on: storeroom shelves for the | first. time in five years, have decided {it's high time to be mice to the customer. The National Shoe Retailers association has posted a warning that : | “business does mot’ come in gift + [email protected] | ha okages” and gently scolds [email protected] men for having a “Superman psyCATTLE (1200) chosis.”
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Maze of Legal Red - Tape Conia: Firing U. S. Workers
‘Reduction in Force’ Rule All Wrapped Up In Innumerable Preliminary Steps
(One of a Series)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Grab
million federal employees and save
do it. And a promise is a promise.
You're a law-abiding citizen, naturally, and you've got to do this ? job strictly according to law. So {are you ready to wade through the | miles of red tape that have to be {unwound in taking a government employees off the payroll? { Four Methods | There are four legal methods of getting rid of a federal employee. The one which applies here is (known as “reduction in force.” The | legal definition: | “Reduction in force means the involuntary separation from the rolls of a department, or furlough in excess of 30 days, of one or more employees in order to reduce personnel.” . There's more to it than that, but the rest doesn’t add to lucidity for your purposes. Anyway, now youre really ready to go. But the congressmen - promised that no essential government functions would -be curtailed by these firings. Can’t Chop Whole Bureau
80 you've got to leave at least a {couple of workers in every office to answer the phones and roll up the organizational charts at night. In other words, you can't chop off whole bureaus, departments, or branches. Nor can you arbitrarily say you're going to fire all red heads, and after the red heads are gone, start on the blonds, until you've fired all you need to fire. That ain't legal. Nor is it legal to fire just the least efficient employees. The law says you've first got to determine the “competitive area,” And the regulation: Competitive Area = “Competitive area means a governmental entity, a combination of governmental entities, or that part ‘of a governmental entity for which approval has been secured from ithe civil service commission, within | which ‘employees of a competitive {level are considered to be in com-
By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Writer
taxpayer. The Republicans are in town,
Skip the preliminaries. You can assume they have already taken place in the congressional appropriations committees. ‘They said they'd
a fistful of pink slips, you lucky You're going along to fire a yourself $3 billion,
‘All that's left is the firing process.
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mittee eventually decides on a “competitive area,” But hold on. The civil service commission's got to pass on it. Back it probably comes for revision. Then the meetings, reports, more hurt feelings, etc. But determining a . “competitive area” has actually been accomplished, so you can go to the next step. Now, now, don't get impatient. It's the regulation. Next comes a juicy little maneuver known as determining the “competitive level.” Get it? One's horizontal and the other’s vertical. You have this legal definition: “Competitive level means all positions in the same grade of the same service, trade, or profession (although they may have different titles or different pay rates), in which interchange of personnel is|, feasible.”
Change Feasible You should be happy to learn |& that “interchange of personnel is feasible.” Ditto for this .tep, committees, subcommittees, reports, hurt feelings, civil service commission, ete. This step, too, has actually been accomplished. You're really sailing along, now, but keep the pink slips in your pocket, for the timé being. You've got to assign every person in the
petitive level a “retention preference—classification.” A dime and a self-addressed stamped envelope will get you the definition of this. It involves three groups, with four subgroups in each group, and several hundreds words of fine type.” What it means is that a detailed file has to be set up for each employe showing whether he is a veteran or not,
government before, which of a halfdozen types of appointments he received, and so on. Most federal . émployes have
competitive area and on the com-|
where and when he worked in the|
above, which have Bo) into the whole thing. Th another fille and ar reports’ have to be made civil service commission,
whole thing has to be again. But it's legal. 300 Steps to Hire Remember, that even while government is firing, it Is also al-| ways hiring. Let's hire somebody
board had to fire its first batch of employees after the war, under these reduction in force proced-| § ures, it was estimated that it cost |Z approximately $250 apiece. If the] 3! Republicans live up to their promise and fire a million government |} workers, on this basis, it will only cost a quarter of a billion dollars to do the job. But you can rest assured that it'll be done legally and according to regulation.
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‘Federal Reserve Loans Reach New High Mark
WASHINGTON, Feb. § (U. P.).— | Commercial, industrial and agricultural logng by member banks of the Federal Reserve system reached a (new high of $10,499,000 in the week ended Jan, 29. The total has been rising constantly for the past three weeks, A Federal Reserve board spokesman said one reason was that many firms have used up ready cash in recon= version, They must borrow for plant and inventory expansion.
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