SELFISH LABOR LEADERS ONLY U. S. TARGETS
Arnold, Thurman
Selfish Labor Leaders Only U.S.Tar sets Thurman Arnold Says Anti-Trust Prosecutions Not Aimed at Rank and File Labor leaders who seek to perpetuate their own power and not the rank and file of...
...Cites Problem "In the United States, 95 per cent of the people have only services of raw materials to sell," Arnold said in his discussion of consumer protection...
...He also defended use of court action for prosecutions rather than such governmental agencies as the Securities Exchange commission, pointing to the American confidence in traditional methods of procedure...
...I don't think labor will support the things we oppose," he added...
...The 48-year-old former Yale professor and one-time mayor of Laramie, Wyo„ emphatically asserted that the sole purpose of the anti-trust drive was to serve the American consumer, and declared that the fight against restraints which cause high prices is important to every American...
...Many of the statements Arnold made last night were reiterations of his comments in his afternoon press conference...
...He cited half a dozen fields in which anti-trust investigations had been conducted and dealt briefly with technical points of each one...
...And I am convinced they will be and that our gains will be maintained by future officials in the justice department...
...In an industrial democracy, such as we have, every one wants free trade within the states...
...I think it is one of the turning points in the economic history of America if consumers can be rallied to support this campaign...
...He was enthusiastically received by attorneys and law students In the crowd, but listeners unfamiliar with cases which he discussed had trouble keeping pace...
...I wanted to come out here to Wis-censin because it is the home of two of the greatest men in our public servire—Bob and Phil La Follette— and because its university has one of the country's greatest deans, Dean Garrison...
...Only leaders who seek to perpetuate their own power fear us...
...Arnold denied that there were any political implications to the indictments of labor unions...
...Arnold emphasized that the antitrust campaign was actually aimed at ellm:nation of trade barriers to permit "free trade for free men.;' This would mean price reductions and greater value per dollar for the American consumers, he declared...
...Saturday told a throng of 800 in the Music hall auditorium...
...Seeks Consumer Support of Drive One of the turning points of American economic history will have been attained if consumers can be rallied to support the present anti-trust campaign of the U. S. government, Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general...
...Robert M. and Phil La Follctt-j and nean Lloyd K. Garrison of the law school, chairman of last night...
...Labor union locals and local members by the hundreds have written me approving our prosecutions," Arnold asserted...
...He said that prosecution of unions was nothing new, although previously it was usually done by cases started by private individuals or corporations rather than by the federal government...
...Hi- told his audience last night :hat he was certain the justice department piosoculions would be supported by the rank and file of labor xml opposed only by selfish labor leaders...
...Selfish Labor Leaders Only U.S.Tar sets Thurman Arnold Says Anti-Trust Prosecutions Not Aimed at Rank and File Labor leaders who seek to perpetuate their own power and not the rank and file of union members are the targets in prosecutiens against labor unions that have been started by the United States department of justice, Thurman Arnold declared here Saturday afternoon...
...This law was written by Republicans and there have been antitrust cases in Republican and Democratic administrations...
...Ai nold opened his address by paying tribute to Sen...
...And I am convinced that if we have sufficient man-power, we can win case after case, clean out these barriers, and reduce consumer prices in scores of fields...
...We can establish that freedom by prosecution, but it must be maintained by alert and interested consumer groups...
...We have five types of cases against unions: price-fixing and allocation of business, exclusion of non-local materials, exclusion of improved materials, outright labor extortion, and jurisdictional disputes in which one union seeks to kill off another...
...The only way we can have it is to clear out barriers as best we can...
...He pointed out that 50 per cent of American families have incomes of less than $1,000 a year, and said that every effort should be made to see that these families obtain the maximum value for every dollar spent...
...Inclusion of labor unions in federal anti-trust indictments, Arnold declared, was necessary because the unions indicted were involved in erecting barriers in restraint of trade...
...For the first time we have a large consumer movement in this country...
...I have tried constantly," Arnold said, 'to keep anti-trust activity out of politics...
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...And they are not serving their unions best if they maintain these practices...
...Arnold declared that the prosecutions are aimed to "catch the imagination" of a rapidly growing American consumer movement and create an unstoppable demand for elimination of trade barriers...
...The federal official, the New Deal's foremost trust-buster, spoke as one of the major events of a 2-day program dedicating the new university iaw library...
...Our problem in the department of justice is working out freedom in industry after industry...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
