The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-04-02
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutched Out
The Truth
. MIR. THURMAN ARNOLD
. WOULD SMASH ALL UNIONS
. MESSIAH OF LIBERTY
. PLAYING THE NAZI GAME

. PLAYING THE NAZI GAME
How about Il few filings at Mr.. Thur
man Arnold. Not that there aren't
others who are doing capably, but just
that the itch is on to have at him for a
few hundred words.
Mr.. Arnold is officially known as
chief of the antitrust division of the
Department of. Justice. During this
discussion the official title will not
again be used.
Having just finished with the bread
case against a group of chain store
companies and others accused of CON
spring" to fix the price of bread-the
defendants including two unions-and
taking an awful beating in the out
come, Mr.. Arnold calls upon Congress
for laws compelling registration Of
unions. This demand he uses as a
spring board for large accusations
against unions, in which he says they
levy tribute upon almost everyone and
that, practically, they have the nation
| by the neck.
Mr.. Thurman Arnold ought to quit
playing a combination of small boy and
bigot. He ought to wake up, grow up,
and take tumble to himself.
X X X
Mr.. Thurman Arnold fits into the
present government just about as fit
tingly as boil on shall we say the
neck?
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| ton came into power it was still just
about legal to shoot union organizers
in some states. Labor had few rights
upon which it could depend.
| Now, under law, labor does have
rights that can be enforced. 1t is free
to organize 1t is free to participate in
"A growing body of democratic practice
in industry, SO that the industrial
world is fast catching up with the po-
litical world in the matter of democ-
racy.
That is very important. 1t is highly
important, too, that this nation awoke
and righted the wrongs of industrial
feudalism and autOcracy in an orderly
manner while there still was time But
Mr. Arnold seems to know little Of
such things.
Mr.. Arnold, seemingly would just
like to go out and smash the hell out
of unions.
1t is difficult to think that Mr.. Ar
mold cares much about the law--not
after seeing the amazing fiasco of the
Ian 4. 4, Il SvN
even the shadow of law violation that
the judge directed the jury to return
Il verdict of not guilty without requir-
ing the defense to put in any evidence
at all. The judge just threw the gov
ernment case in the ash can.
But does Mr.. Arnold show regret, or
is he contrite? Not a bit. He rushes
right back into print to try to plaster
a general label of blanket guilt on the
whole labor movement. Unions, to his
) way of thinking, are all just bad and
that's that.
How does it happen that such a mis-
fit can SO long stay in such IA job?
How does Attorney General Biddle,
who has shown a fine appreciation of
unions and Il broad understanding of
them, Justify the tenure of Mr.. Thur
man Arnold?
There is an argument to be made
, both ways on the question of registra-
, ton.
1t is fair for Mr.. Arnold to present
his views on that subject. But to
bolster an argument with Villification
and with broad and all-inclusve de-
nunciations is another matter.
He ought to remember the old, old
story about the man who took in too
much territory, to his ultimate undo
ing.
In this fateful hour national unity
is all-impOrtant.
Let it be said i'm candor that perhaps
no man in the entire United States is
just now doing more to create internal
dissatisfaction and lack of unity than
this same Thurman Arnold, who
thinks, if we may judge from his re-
marks, that his own brand of witch
hunting is more important than unity
to win the war and that his own par
ticular branding iron is more import
ant than bOmberS and tanks and ships.
Could somebody arrange it, please,
that Mr.. Arnold might either fit more
nearly with the needs of the day, or
else be given a prolonged vacation? 1t
would help Il great deal.-CMW.