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Show VTBROOK PEGLER ' Just a Cut and Dried Plot OHILIP MURRAY, the CIO, and lawyers for the Hollywood-Wall Street moving picture trust may rest serene amid the sound effects, discoursed with wind-machine, thunder-sheet and such mechanical gear by the department of justice. It is Just another productioai schedule whooping along in election ear. Each show will be a mint of money for the party. In the long run, on ceremonial appeal to the Supreme court, Murray and the CIO will be acquitted of violating the Taft-Hartley law in using the columns of the CIO News, a private publication of the union mobsters, to boost their candidate in an election. Although the plot 'is cut and dried, does anybody suppose that any other theatrical play is impromptu? That moving picture anti-trust case has been going on, starting and stopping, for 10 years now. But this is a good year for it. The Hollywood trash are in the grease because of the Communist business, and since FDR died they haven't been so conscientious about getting up the money. This will remind them, in election year. Everything is going to be all right, though. It just takes time and the right kind of pressure and the right frame of mind in the department of justice. That's all it takes. A 1 1 i |