ANOTHER BREAK.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 939, 8 December 1933, Page 1

ANOTHER BREAK.

“Brain Trust” Trouble in U.S.A. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 6. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” states that the long-smouldering dispute between the so-called Right and Left wing forces of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration came to a head to-night, as Mr George Peek, head of the Administration, declared that he would resign unless he were given a freer hand in managing the Administration. On the other hand, Mr Henry Wallace, Secretary for Agriculture, believes that it should be a subsidiary organisation operating under the regular Department of Agriculture. Mr Peek uncompromisingly opposed the restriction of business profits, while his opponents, who included some members of the “ Brain Trust,” seek to place processors and exchange markets, such as the Chicago Board of Trade, under rigid Government supervision! It is now revealed that this difference of opinion has been holding up the N.I.R.A. grain and other codes. President Roosevelt offered a compromise in an effort to retain both Mr Wallace and Mr Peck in their respec tive positions. lie ordered that, here after, codes involving agricultural pro ducts should be transferred from the Agricultural Administration to the regular N.I.R.A. Administration for negotiation. Whether this arrangement would be satisfactory to Mr Peek or the “ Brain Trust ” is not known. Another report states that Mr Peek told Mr Wallace he would resign unless the Radical members of the “ Brain Trust” in the Department of Agriculture were asked to leave. Following an interview with President Roosevelt, newspapermen asked Mr Peek if he had told the President he intended to resign. “ I said nothing about that,” Mr Peek replied.