Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-11
ArnoId's
Methods
Ineffective
Getting Nowhere Against
Union Conspiracies
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

BN W ESiBkDOh PEULEh
EIRST placing a clothespin on
4 your nose 10 shut out the
fumes Of n very corrupt condl-
ton, suppose you approach from
a new angle the subject OF
union activities, particularly in
war jobs, and the liberation OF
this activity by the national
government.
| am beginning 10 suspect
that the activities Of Thurman
Arnold. assistant attorney gen.
eral in charge Of the antitrust
division. are devised 10 take the
heat off the administration, with
the net result that his activities
consolidate tho position of the
crooks and Communists who
have established by terror an
absolute power and taxing au-
thority over seven or eight mill
lion American workers and over
a large portion of American
industry.
This may sound or smell
sensational. hut give me those
dice and give me room and /
will make my point.
I DO NOT suggest that Mr..
L Arnold Is taking. But. I
suspect that he IS the fall-guy
for the administration because
obviously, with the present
Supreme Court and especially
under the Frankfurter opinion
in tho memorable case Of the
Carpenters Union, he just can't
win.
Arnold is fusSy, nervous
man who burns up LOT Of
energy preparing cases against
predatory unioneers who block
ade not merely war projects but
whole cities and states with
their tariffs, exclusion acts and
cooperative con>piracies against
certain products
Our very constitution fOrbids
interstate tariffs. but unions are
not sovereign states and have
no legal substance.
They are a great invisible
government superior 20 the
laws. the states and the. ma
iional constitution and they do
impose prohibitlve interstate
tariffs.
Thor treasures arc subject
10 no taxation hy either the fed
eral Of state governments.
Mn Arnold VIII tell you all
about that and YOU surely won't
doubt bis word when YOU real
ire that hc Is an sppolntee and
member Of tho New Deal and a
believer IN its general philos-
ophy
But they sct a Job 70 do and
he is trying 10 do ~ but the
catch IN the situation * that
they knew 1t was an impossible
job.
NOW We certainly know that
Y nobody Of any Importance
in this administration Will lift a
hand against the unions. even
though they be- n the wrong.
Mrs. Roosevelt even went be-
fore a strike meeting of a union
m New York escorted by Miss
Rose Schnciderman. secretary
Of tho state department Of
labor and eXhorted all American
workers 10 join unions, uncon-
dlronalIy
She didn't propose that unions
reform their ways or even that
they refrain from mob violence,
and members Of this very union
in this very strike had attacked
the authority OF government by
mobbing tho police IN the streets
and were under Indictment then.
The parent union ot this
group. the electricians. Is bot
ilcncck union n New York and
Chicago apdthcre is an ominous
record IN both cities
Look back over the record.
Do YOU find any prosecutions Of
Communists for calling strikes
on defense projects during the
period before Hltler's attack on
Russia when the Communists
were helping Hitler and Stain
by Sabolaglng the American
war efforts
You VIII find no disposition by
this government 10 punish
Communists for this.
And. although you Will find
some Arnold prosecutions under
the Sherman antitrust law.
against unions Of tho AFL. YOU
VIII also find that Arnold gave
up IN despair after Felix Frank
furicr wrote a majority opinion
Of tho Supreme Court IN the
carpenters case.
Arnold wrote an official COM
munication recently IN which he
described certain boycott Of
an urgent aviation defense Job
by Mike Boyle Of the electri-
clans. as "onc of The most
vicious buitlcncCkS IN the ma
tional defense effort"
He added hopelcSsly that "ac-
tion by tho antitrust division ~
prcClUdcd by tho recent decision
OF the Supreme Court. in the
carpenters case.
. GO HEPE Nn haNn Arnnld