Mr. Arnold Muzzled

Thurman Arnold, famed capital-baiter and labor-baiter, was scheduled to bait labor again before a House Judiciary subcommittee last week. Instead the committee received a little note from Mr. Arnold's boss, Attorney General Francis Biddie, politely informing them he preferred not to have Mr. Arnold appear. His reasons: 1) the bills in question (to curb labor racketeers) were not concerned with the Justice Department; 2) Mr. Arnold had "heretofore expressed himself" on the matter of labor racketeering and his views were well known. In brief, Mr. Biddle hauled Mr. Arnold off labor's neck.

People wondered. Mr. Biddle never seems to haul Thurman Arnold off capital's neck --although Arnold has many times "expressed" himself about the nation's great corporations.

The real reason, observers suspected, was that Thurman Arnold acts with the President's tacit approval. When labor gets uppity, the President slips the leash, and Arnold cuts loose with many a bark & bay. When labor is getting plenty of lumps everywhere else, Mr. Roosevelt hauls Arnold back to the doghouse for a spell.

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