Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1937, Page 5

THEATER BOYCOTT ASKED IN STRKE Nation-Wide Picketing Is Urged by Film Labor Group. By the Assoctated Press. % HOLLYWOOD, May, 6.—Striking motion picture craftsmen appealed today for a Nation-wide boycott and picketing of movie theaters after re- Jecting a peace proposal that omitted mention of the closed shop and union récognition. Producers accepted unequivocally the terms of the peace plan, submitted by the Los Angeles Central Labor Council, American Federation of Labor group, with which®the striking crafts- men are affiliated.. The proposal pro- vided that: 1. All striking crafts return to work immediately without prejudice, and 2. Negotiations be conducted by rep- resentatives of each of the 11 striking unions for establishment of wage scales and working conditions. “The strike is still on,” said Charles Lessing, head of the Fedetated Motion Picture Crafts, which called the walk- out. “Not Interested.” “I am in no way interested in that plan of settlement. It's a closed shop, signed, sealed and delivered, or we don't go back to work.”. Shortly afterward Lessing sent tele- grams to general headquarters of the Painters’ Union, requesting that pick- ets be stationed' in front of movie theaters throughout the Nation. He also wired labor groups in all key cities, asking for co-operation in movie boycotting and picketing Speaking for the federated crafts, Charles Kimberlin said the strikers had received a committment from a “powerful labor organization” which he refused to name, “offering to picket within 36 hours every motion picture theater in the United States.” Strikers, attending a mass meeting in Hollywood, were offered pickets from the Los Angeles branch of the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, and from the International Longshoremen’s Association. In New York, William Green, presi- deni of the American Federation of Labor, said he was not certain whether he would support a proposed boycott of motion pictures by organized labor. John Brophy, C. I. O. director in Washington, asked"the support of all labor groups for the movie strikers. Says Actors Not Needed. Discussing reports that negotiations between the producers and the power- ful Screen Actors’ Guild, which are to be resumed tonight, had progressed satisfactorily, Kimberlin said “We don't need the actors out on strike to win our fight for union recognition and a closed shop. Natur- ally, we'd like to have them with us, but we are receiving financial support from them, and I am sure we have their moral support. If they win their points in their disputes with the pro- ducers, we'll still have their financial support. If they lose them, we'll still have their moral support, and perhaps their physical support.” The actors are seeking improved studio conditions. G. M. PARLEY FAILS. Negotiations Unable to End St. Louis Sit-Down. ST. LOUIS, May 6 (#) —Negotia- tions for settlement of a sit-down strike of 3,700 General Motors Corp. employes here continued today after Phil Baugh, Chevrolet Motor Co. plant manager, and an United Auto- mobile Workers’ Committee failed to reach an agreement in a prolonged conference last night. Two hundred and fifty workers re- mained in the Chevrolet plant today. Union leaders said they would not leave until a settlement had been obtained. Other strikers were sent home, soon after the strike began yesterday morning. The Fisher Body plant also was closed down by a walkout of 1,800 employes in a sympathy demonstra- tion. John Livingston, president of the Bt. Louis local of the Automobile ‘Workers Union said the discharge of 37 men employed on a truck as- sembly lide formed the basis of the strike. He said Baugh had refused 8 “share-the-work” plan whereby® the five-day seven-hour work week in that division would .be reduced three-fifths of an hour daily to permit the dis- tharged men to return to their jobs. The sit-down is the third since the In the Inimitable "DIENER Manner IF YOU value your floor coverings . . . if you de- sire to prolong their beauty and usefulness . . . they should be scientifically cleaned in the inimi- (o 3 i N MISS MINTER As she appeared testifying in a,recent investigation. . WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR, Movie director, whose murder remains mystery. settlement of the Nation-wide G. M. C. strike. One-day sit-downs occurred on February 18, after a series of fights between union and non-union employes and on March 11, in pro- test of what the union termed the formation of a ‘“company union” among non-union workers. STEEL .PARLEY HELD FUTILE, Republic Proposal Called “Waste of Time” by C. 1. O. PITTSBURGH, May 6 (#).—John .L. Lewis' Steel Union Committee de- scribed today the Republic Steel § ,Corp.’s proposed collective bargaining conference as a “futile waste of time.” J. A. Voss, director of industrial re- lations for Republic, wired the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee yes- terday that the company saw no neces- sity for a signed contract “in view of the Wagner.act.” He suggested a con- ference May 11. Regional Director Clinton 8. Golden of the committee replied by telegram today: “Are we to understand you projose in lieu of signed collective bargr.ning contract that contracting partirs com- mit provisions verbally agrees upon to memory and rely thereon for future reference whenever conferences ars necessary to discuss grievance that may arise thereunder? “Do you further propose that man- agement officials in the 35 mills oper- ated by your company and union grievance committeemen, numbering 200, as well as the 60,000 employes, also indulge in this memorizing proc- ess? “Is this your conception of orderly constructive methods of collective bar- gaining as contemplated by national labor relations act? “If so, we consider conference you propose for May 11 futile waste of time and energy. “Do you propose to accept terms similar to those in agreement signed by Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. and approximately 100 other companies with representatives of Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee without under- taking to affix your company’s signa- ture thereto?"” Meanwhile, independent steel pro- ducers who refused to recognize the steel workers’ Organizing Committee faced a blunt threat of strikes in their plants and coal mines. Philip Murray, lieutenant of John L. Lewis in the campaign to unionize the country’s steel workers, warned the independents last night that the unijon would call a strike, if neces- sary, to win agreements on wages, hours and working conditions. The independents, he charged, have formed an “unholy alliance” against contracts with the committee and as a result would face a crisis in their coal mines “within 48 hours.” The committee, he reiterated for the third time this week, would not be responsible for keeping its mem- bers at work for independents who decline to sign agreements. WOMAN HURT BY GLASS TR | Mrs. Nina Hinman, 47, of Clinton, Md., was cut about the right eye and cheek by flying glass yesterday when a base ball thrown by a 9-year-old boy crashed through the side wihdow of her automobile as she was driving in the 400 block of I street. | She went home after treatment by a | private physician. table DIENER manner. 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Taylor (Continued From First Page.) me in withholding them from the au- thorities. “If she or any other person has any facts concerning the murder of Wil- liam Desmond Taylor, I demand that they be disclosed immediately. “Unfortunately, my daughter, Mrs. Fillmore, is very bitter against me be- cause circumstances last Summer forced me to take rather drastic steps for my daughter's own good.” Last Summer Mrs. Shelby brought an insanity complaint against Mrs. Fillmore, which was later dismissed. Protected Mother, She Said. The deposition made in the civil suit quotes:Mrs. Fillmore as saying: “I protected her (Mrs. Shelby) against the Taylor murder case.” “Is it your contention, is that cor- rect, that your mother killed William Desmond Taylor?” asked Mrs. Shel- by’s attorney in the deposition. “I don't -have to answer that,” re- plied Mrs. Fillmore. The attorney, Clyde Murphy, noti= fled Fitts in writing of the deposi- tion. This morning Miss Minter said, “I've been called on to tell every- thing s0 many times, I don't see what | there is now I can add to whats| been said. | “I'm sure I don't know what they | want of me this time,” said Mrs. | Shelby at her hotel. | “I've been questioned by grand | juries before, and it really didn't amount to much.” | Fitts said grand jury subpoenas have been issued for Mrs. Shelby, | Miss Minter and Mrs. Fillmore. Mrs. Fillmore was questioned last | night by Fitts, then placed under the protection of a woman investigator until the grand jury could start its new inquiry today. . Seeks to Recover $48,000. Fitts said information would be given the jury which was contained in the deposition made by Mrs. Fillmore. In an official statement, the district attorney said: “My office has never closed the Wil- liam Desmond Tayior murder investi- gation. The Fillmore deposition came to us while my investigators were working along similar lines. 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The district attorney said two diaries were found by his investigators at Miss Minter's Beverly Hills home and would be read to the grand jury. ‘Taylor, whose real name was Wil- | liam Deanez Tanner, directed Miss Minter in several pictures and was the friend of many film notables of his day. He was shot in the back and killed on the evening of February 1, 1922, The slaying was discovered the next morning by his colored houseman when he entered .the apartment. The last person known, to have talked with Taylor before his death was the late Mabel Normand, then a reigning comedienne. She bade him adieu approximately 45 minutes prior to the shooting, police determined. Police began a long and fruitless search for Edward Sands, Taylor's missing valet, who had been discharghd by the director after a series of rob- beries in his bachelor quarters, Lost Foxhound 2 Weeks Covering 125 Miles Home Tennessee Animal in Second Place W hen | Disappearing. By the Assoclated Press. BLUFF CITY, Tenn., May 6.—Jane, a 4-year-old fox hound owned by H. P. Richards, was home from a hunt today after boofing it from Middles- boro, Ky., 125 miles away. She was two weeks and two days “on the road.” Richards said the dog was lost at Mid- dlesboro on April 24, the last day of the annual hunt of the Southeastern Association of Fox Hunters. She was holding second place at the time she took “French leave.” { | predicting victory over -ers. | American Association of the Birds, Point-New Madrid spillway. Although officials forecast victory in the fight to save the southern half of the 131,000-acre area from a second 1nundation, continued to build higher the protect- ing barrier around a 1,000-foot gap in the river-front levee. crews of levee workers A fourth dredge was put into serv- ice today, piling earth against the bulkheads raised by 1,500 sharecrop- pers, farmers and C. C. C. members, to meet a predicted 48-foot crest of the Ohio River at its junction with the Mississippi at Cairo, II1. C. L. Blanton, jr., W. P. A. super- visor, saw a “safe margin” as the wall 4,000 feet long steadily rose around the last remaining crevasse blasted out by Army engineers in the river- front dike last Winter to ease pres- sure of the flood-burdened Ohio River at Cairo. Wyman W. Beasley, Mississippi County engineer, joined Blanton in the river, “With all other gaps closed, this emergency levee will stand a stage ,Of 50 feet at Cairo,” he said. River observers at Cairo have estimated the crest will not exceed 48 feet there. Adjt. Gen. L. M. Means of the Mis- souri National Guard, after inspecting the construction work, expressed be- lief that the levee would hold. He promised the National Guard would ald by “all possibie means” in protect- ing the threatened area from another flood. All available State Highway Department employes already have been ordered to duty in the spillway. Evacuation of farm families from the danger area slowed today with encouraging reports from levee work- Approximately half of the 3,000 residents remained at their homes, de- termined “to wait it out.” Others, who left upon issuance of the precaution- ary evacuation order, were being cared for by the Red Cross in refugee camps at East Prairie. Educator to Speak. Dr. Walter C. Jackson, dean of the Women's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will be the honor guest and main speaker before the dinner of the institution's Washington alumnae group at the University Women's club house, 1634 I street, at 7:30 p.m. today. WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. 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