Show AT al OF babor CZARS the severest indictment yet et made by any high government oti official facial against organized labor a 8 found in III testimony presented by assistant attorney general thur man arnold before a house judiciary subcommittee which was considering a proposal to force unions to register with the government ern orn ment in the words ot of an AP dispatch mr air arnold accused organized labor ot of impeding the use of ef men and machines in the war effort destroying independent business and holding farmers farmer slid and consumers at its mercy the rank and tile file of working people in this country are not to blame for this they are as pat arietto as anyone an one they want to nil work ork harder haider and produce more but a small group of powerful I 1 labor a bur leaders have the worker like the farmer the consumer and employing industry hog bog tied under the closed shop principle a man or woman must pay tribute to ii a union and obey a laloi labor boss or lose the job that mein means his or her livelihood this Is 19 an astounding astounding situation to exist under laws that otherwise guarantee personal onal liberty and protect a citizen against extortion and combinations in restraint ot of trade we used to hear how grasping greedy employers employ ei a had placed workers in virtual servitude today da y it la Is labor dictators drunk with authority who ft ho have made the workers their powerless vassals it ie can no longer be argued that the closed shop Is essential to the workers protection the government bovein dominates worker employer relations an ela boate all enbom passing series of government boards board e exists ests to see that every v worker arher is paid a proper wage works under decent shop conditions and Is protected against any and every kind of exploitation except exploitation by labor czars azars no man in government knows more moie about the activities of organized labor than mr arnold ainold the testimony lie he gave before the house committee points to one of the worst dangers this country faces the rise to unprecedented power of a handful of labor leaders who are aie responsible to no one and who hold what amounts to a itee and death grip over millions of freeborn free born boin american americal Ame citizens |