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Last November acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler dug up evidence in Chicago that in 1922 William Bioff had been convicted of pandering, sentenced to six months in jail, released after serving just eight days (TIME, Aug. 21, Dec. 4). This was news because Bioff is western representative and reputed boss of the potent International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (Stagehands' Union...
Pegler turned his evidence over to State's Attorney Thomas James Courtney. Attorney Courtney promptly wired a warrant to Los Angeles, where William Bioff was watching over the union problems of Hollywood's cinema technicians, and Bioff was arrested. Before Pander Bioff could be extradited, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois would have to sign a writ of requisition. Governor Horner put off signing a writ. Instead, he ordered a hearing to decide whether or not he ought to sign it at all. In Los Angeles, William Bioff was once more set free...
Last week, because of this editorial, Colonel Knox and the Daily News were defendants in a $250,000 libel suit. Democratic Governor Horner accused Republican Colonel Knox of: 1) implying that Bioff's extradition had been postponed for improper reasons; 2) misrepresenting facts; 3) trying to "impair and destroy the influence and power of the Democratic Party...
...responsibility for this must be squarely laid at the door of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, one of our most arbitrary and unsavory unions. Its leaders are a colorful crew, to say the least. Take Uncle Willie Bioff, for example, whose name has been connected with three labor murders, who has been charged with accepting a one hundred thousand dollar bribe, and convicted of pandering in Chicago. But the union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands...
...Bioff grandiosely announced...