Show Saturday Morning Actors’ Labor r Fight Fails Of Settlement Bachs Query SAN FRANCISCO Aug n Aug for a Originally y stand the battle of performers' and stagehands’ unions over the status of Sophie Tuckrt-'American Federation of Actors swung through a second session before the American Federation of Labor's executive council Fnday and then was continued until Monday "We are trying to work out our differences in a common sense nav” said William Green president of the A F L who announced failure to solve the problem Friday ''We are ready for any emergency” said Ralph Morgan president of the Screen Actors’ Guild and a leader of the performers’ forces as he reached Newark from Atlantic City Spending Saturday In New York the guild group will fly to Hollywood tomorrow night and return here Monday Morgan said the delegation felt "justified” by developments in deferring action on a threatened strike He declined to elaborate Principals in the feud are the Associated Actors and Artistes of America (A A A A ) and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (I A T S E In the middle is Orphan Sophie s American Federation of Actors which was driven into the night bv the parent A A A A and promptly adopted by the I A T S E brother international of the A A A A The A A A A just as promptly charged I A T S E with uolating the charter of Grand-papp- y A F L In granting a char ter to the expelled night club vaudeville and circus eprformers As of Friday night the developments are these 1 The A F L executive committee will meet at 2 p m E S T to renew negotiations Monday they hope will settle this most serious labor fight in the ranks of actors since the actors’ strike in 1919 In the meantime the A F L Headers went to New York for week-en- d holiday 2 Morgan and his committee of movie players left for New York and a mass meeting of movie actors at Hollywood Sunday night 3 Sophie Tucker president of the A F A went to a night club near Albany N Y for a week-en- d engagement and her mood when she left here was that she could sing her hit number "Some of These Days” with fervent feeling W' one-da- s i brought tion Permits Landis “scabbing” status questions James M Legion Chiefs Hit Bridges Draw Retort Chadwick Says Laborile Acts as Dictator Aug 11 (UP) SAN FRANCISCO — The American Legion and Harry leader Bridges west coast exchanged bitter verbal punches Friday as their quarrel over Legion labor policies drew in National Commander Stephen Chadw ick and state Legion officials Chadwick arriving for the convention of the California Legion at Oakland referred to Bridges’ criticism of the Legion and his order to unions to purge themselves of "American Legion labor spies and other labor spies" as brazen CIO OH— on d i Regular 1 SO MARTHA WASHINGTON CANDIES Gross-ma- n questioning scahbing” Examiner James M Landis ruled that if it could be shown the witness was hostile tnorganized labor the questioning was relevant Credibility Attacked "As I understand it” Landis remarked "this questioning is not from the point of antilabor bias This is an attempt to Impeach the credibility of the witness I think we all realize that the testimony of this witness If believed is of great consequence " Leech who identified himself as e testified communist a In list Called a ‘Caesar’ Leech testified he resigned from the communist partv of which he said he was an organizer at Los Angeles and that Bridges not only had attended communist party meetings but had been elected to office Recalled by the defense Leech said he was paid by the communist party and that he had told relief workers including John E Jeffery relief supervisor at Los Angeles of this income Leech identified Jeffery as a member of the communist party and Attorney Grossman said tartly "You just wanted to use his name of Testimony all sources "You misundetstood mv ques lion’" Grossman asked Leech said he was “Afraid I did" and Dean Landis lemai ked I am ompletely confused on that anxwei " (iioxsmnn asked I eech why he had said lie was going to Toledo in August 1917 when he vvns on his wav to Poilland to give t he Bi idges nffidav it I eech had informed Los Angeles and Redding Cal relief autlioi itie he was going to Ohio c he Huntington Phi k relief illation wns honeycombed with mem beis of the communist party and I did not want to give them a rlue to mv actual destination" Leech nnsw ered ‘"1 arts Features Now BLOUSE Yx N BERETS 5 quills and gay bustles M U n - rsf ‘In other words” Landis intervened "you think that false statement wrs justified’" "Yes sir I do" Leech replied Aug U (UD-C- oi rrvpnndrnce and other nmlerial Awrtedly In conned ion with the Investigation of the Harrv Bridge devolution rase In San Francisco LOS ANG ELLS weie mhpenaed Friday from the file of the Lo Angeles pollie de- partmenl but reportedly could not be found Telegraphic notification that the file had been auhpenaed wn received from Edward L llaff director of immigration Document referred to In the mibpcna were not found Immediately and Captain William Barker awKlant to I’ollce Chief Arthur C Hohmann wa ordered to innke a xearch for them In the confidential flic of the defunct ’ iiiac pulit e "red foi Idler axsc'di'dly llcff exchanged between John J ker -ail hie f of cb lec liv e of I’cu land riis-Iri- Smart simplicity is tlicir forte for Paris centers all her interest on deft manipulations to make the impoitant beret flatteringly different this Tall belts and petershams are spiced with bows Ftorvr I c Z C M fashion (' cnltr of the Clue f of Folic Janie and Wil)inl of Lo Angelc who lhe liam F llvnc "led xquael rdnlive to a enn-- I emplntcd de pm ln imi against III ulgex ( I W'rst of Oppose Surrender Of Their Records workers LOS ANGFLFS Aug 11 oil companies petitioned the federal court Fridav to quash special subpenas issued by the grand jury invest gating alleged gasoline calling for books recprice-fixin- g (2D-M- ajor Thomas Supports Liberal Pica WASHINGTON Aug 11 t'Ti— Senator Thomas (D Utah lauded President Roosevelt Friday for urging young Democrats to demand liberal party candidates and plat forms "The president is right" Thomas chnirman of the senate labor comMr said in discussing mittee Roosevelt s message to the national convention of young Democrats at Pittxbuigh "'lhe young Democrat’ mission in politics is one of liberalism and' progressivism ” Thomas said "It the youth of our land' becomes conservative America will be lost ’’ WASHINGTON Aug 11 (2Pi- -A broad agreement between the AFL and major contractors intended to end strikes arising from union jurisdictional disputes was announced Friday The Associated General Conti actors of America said that the executive council of the American Federation of Labor meeting in Atlantic City had agreed ords and papers that when its unions fall into a The Standard Oil Company of dispute over which shall do speciCalifornia charged the subpenas fied w oi K on a proiect the shall be referred to the constitute unreasonable search and of the federations president reseizure and that they would building trades division sult in the revelation of tiade Until that official announces a sec lets and Current contracts withdecision the woik in question out compensation will continue Edward J HardJ P Edwards executive secreing managing director of the Tidewater-Associated contractors’ oiganlation said tary for the declared it would Oil companv Announcement of the compact "take one man more than 17 yeats lame onlv a few weeks after the to furnish the records and data deCIO had proclaimed an organmanded izing drive in the construction field where heretofore it has not competed with the A F L However Harding said the contract was not "brought about by any influence of the C I O" ‘Me have been working with the AFL and the building trades since March” he added Harding said that the “cooperative understanding" between his organization and the "should clear the wav for a badly needed increase in private con- AFL struction " He said that under A F L instructions several current strikes over jurisdictional questions already had been called Off EL PASO Texas Aug U (UP) Notma Talmadge star of the silent screen was granted a divorce In Aroz Mexico mil court Friday from Geoige Jesscl stage and radio comedian -- T “tS SUITS d A Star Gets Divorce Penney's Wins the Intelligent Economists' Vote With Single-Breaste- 3 Devon Double-Breaste- d Styles Lounge Models The Commador Models Slims — Shorts— Stouts The smart buyer knots s that Penney’s styles have the jump on fall fashion that those styles set him above the crowd And too lie knows that Penney’s has a complete selection to choose from— lie’s sure to find the suit that clicks with HIM that makes him look his BEST! 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Must we sit by while they ridicule and mock us and by abusing our liberties undermine We Americans must our house here didn't ou’" answer ” "There might be something In Dr Henry Wallers Watsonville that yes” Leech replied also attacked Bridges for "threatening” Legion members while he Change Testimony was himself "being accused of Continued defense questioning activities" caused Leech to change his story Retort to Attack that he had resided in Toledo Ohio Bridges replying to the Watters’ between 1924 and 1929 He admitted he "could have’ attack called Legion leaders the "mouthpieces of bankers" and sug- stated for relief purposes that he gested it might be a good idea "to had lived entirely at Los Angeles start a veterans labor league that during those years In several instances Leech reexpressed the ideals of the vetvised his previous testimony after erans w ho are workers ” The quarrel which started as a Grossman produced records from sidelight on Bridges’ deportation the S R A office He had testified hearing at Angel Island immigra- he got $45 a week in private tion station overshadowed that just before he left for Portland Ore with his wife and hearing Fridav At the hearing attorneys for the six children to make an affidavit labor chieftain tried to show John against Bridges He had testified T Leech former Los Angeles com- he made the trip on $110 provided munist had been a "relief ehisel-er- ” by Stanley M (Larry) Dovle anti in accepting unemployment aid radical investigator for the Cali funds while working elsewhere forma American Legion Doyle has been suhpenaed from particularly while being paid $10 a week as a communist party or- Minneapolis at the request of the defense which charged he was the ganizer Leech has made an affidavit say"mainspring” of a conspiracy to VlO 1 the Aug The United Automobile Workers (C I O' through its president R J Thomas termed the decision a "go” signal for organization attempts which it said had been “proceeding without let-u- p and in accordance with around to Leech woiking on painting and decorating jobs while not a union member Thomas B Shoemaker Chief of the government's counsel protested the interroga- Box A DETROIT national labor relations hoaid ruling ordering the Ford Motor company to halt alleged antiunion activity Friday night spurred two unions to organizational drives among Fold The defense hammered away Friday at John L Leech to bring out discrepancies in his testimony at the deportation hearing of Harry Bridges west coast CIO director and leader of maritime workers on the Pacific When Attorney Aubrey SATURDAY — Special I 2-Pou- nd H -- Among Ford Employes Examiner Rules In Favor of Defense Probing Atlantic city n j DPI— scheduled Tribune- - T iro Unions to Start Drive Bridges Trial Witness Alters Story Union Groups Miss in Try For Solution is $ 'ljc Jlalt £ ake - r i e fmmer hearing Wliili'H Illues Tans iireens Ureys l'aney Cheeks and Stripes A very fortunate pui chase fiotn one of the nation's leading manufacture! s of better quality chess shirts! 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