HOUS TON 
2 AUGUST 1938 
£ AUGUST 1938 
MI SC ELL ATT S OU S 
Medical Monopoly 
Assistant Attorney General Thurman W. Arnold yesterday announced 
that the Department of Justice had upon investigation con- 
cluded that the Medical Society of the District of Columbia 
and the American Medical Association had violated the Anti- Trust 
Laws by expelling or threatening to expel doctors connected 
with the Group Health Association Incorporated, a cooperative 
health association of twenty five hundred government employees 
in Washington. Mr. Arnold stated that the matter would be 
referred to a grand jury for decision as to whether indictments 
should be obtained under the Anti Trust Laws. In a statement 
of the Department’s position he reviewed the establishment 
of the Group Health Organization declaring: "In spite of great 
technical proficiency the Medical profession has not been 
successful in furnishing adequate medical care to all the 
American people at a cost that they can afford to pay. — The 
Department of Justice is not in a position to decide whether 
or not cooperative health associations are a proper solution. 
Its function is rather to prevent artificial impediments by 
organized groups who desire to escape competition from the 
various attempts which may be made from time to time to bring 
down the cost of medical care." He added that the problem was 
not confined to Washington but that similar cooperative groups 
had been formed in over sixty American cities. 
Civil Rights in California 
The F.B.I. Office at San Francisco announced yesterday that it 
would conduct an investigation of the recent expulsion of CIO 
lumber workers from Westwood, California (see Radio Bulletin No 
163) in order to determine whether there had been a violation 
of any federal statute or a denial of civil rights. 
Maytag Strike 
Governor Kraschel of Iowa on Saturday ordered the closing of 
the NLRB hearing on the Maytag Washing Machine Co. strike at 
Newton (see Radio Bulletin No. 172). It was reported that 
the Governor termed the hearing "A disturbing factor in the 
peace of the community.” The NLRB announced today that it 
had ordered a forty eight hour postponement but declared "The 
board’s action is in no sense recognition of the validity of 
the Governor’s order." 
Social Security 
The Social Security Board announced Saturday that during the 
first six months of this year approximately two million five 
hundred thousand workers drew one hundred eighty million dol- 
lars in unemployment benefits under the boards unemployment 
insurance program. 
