Show MOVIE SUPERS IN PROTEST claim salaries do no not t fit increased duties and responsibilities of the work the supers of the moving pictures to the number of ten thousand have appealed to the american federation of labor to help them the days das when in the legitimate they could get several dollars a night for looking the part have given place to long hours of exposure to bumps find and thumps and thrilling mauling and falling for a wage scale seriously reduced ed they maintain by the lie exorbitant commissions demanded by the agents the public Is no longer satisfied to let a dummy fall from a din cliff or jump from a motor car to a train or stab a man eating shark or purloin the cubs ot of a she bear in her den it expects the 1 super himself to be an her idelt blithe find and resilient whether lie is dropped from a house roof or smothered under a haymow ile he must be a glutton tor for punishment and unet to the indu rated symmetry of a marble faun the lungs of a ted meredith and the muscles of a howard berry yet for all this he is to have the pal of a stevedore or a station porter he thinks lie he deserves the wages of a mexican bullfighter at least ile he suffers suffer from competition he Is a supernumerary ile he gets the wages paid in callings that put little or no premium on mentality bruises sprains and gashes in a world dripping with gore have a lessened market value since they have become part of the accepted order the trivial wounds of civilians are little noted for the real a and nd widespread suffering among the so W diers the super would win at once as a warrior the sympathy that is denied to his cinematographic trials and sufferings |