AMERICAN AGRICULTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18266, 8 December 1933, Page 2

AMERICAN AGRICULTURE

CONFLICT OVER CONTROL THREAT OF RESIGNATION NEW YORK, Dec. (1. The New York Times Washington correspondent . states that the long smouldering dispute between the socalled Right and Left Wing forces of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration came to a head to-night as Mi. George Peek, head of the administration, declared that he would resign unless ho were given a freer hand m managing the administration. On the other hand, Mr. Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, believes that ther'e should be a subsidiary organisation operating under the regular Department of Agriculture. Mir'. Peek uncompromisingly opposed the restricting of: business profits, while his opponents, who include some members of the “brain trust” seek to place processors arid exchange markets such as the Chicago Board of Trade, under rigid Government supervision. Another report states that Mr. Peek told Mr. Wallace that he would resign unless the radical members of the “brain trust” in the Agriculture department wore asked to leave. Following his interview with Mr. Roosevelt, newspapermen asked Mr. Peek if lie told the President, that life intended to resign.

“Nothing was said about that,” Mr Peek replied. It is now revealed that this difference of opinion has been holding up tho National Recovery Association grain and other codes. Mr. Roosevelt offered a compromise in an offer to retain both Mr. Wallace j and Mr. Peek in their respective posi- j tions, and ordered that hereafter codes involving agricultural products should ( be transferred from the agricultural! administration to the regular National j Reconstruction Association Administration. Whether such as arrangement would be satisfactory to Mr. Peek or to tho “brain trrist” was not known.