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Hollywood labor, to which the present slump was merely the sharpest pinch of a long campaign of studio skimping & saving, fortnight ago engineered a general four-day work week agreement with the studios. And last week, the Screen Actors Guild was facing the problem of 4,000 members of the Guild's junior branch, chiefly extras and occasional players, for whom work has been so scanty that they have been unable to pay union dues. Since no actor in Hollywood can get a job without a Guild card, Guild officials were considering issuing temporary working cards to delinquents, permitting...
...Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official job in the U. S. as Mr. Stalin in Russia-General Secretary of the Party-arrived home just in time to welcome a four-day convention of his "Party Builders." In capitalist terms the Party Builders are star salesmen who sign up the most new members, a group analogous to a "$1,000,000 Club" in the insurance field...
...pugnacious C. I. 0. American Newspaper Guild last week ended the longest strike in its history. Seven months ago the Scripps League Seattle Star hired A. F. of L. teamsters to supplant Guild office workers in its circulation department. That started the strike. After a four-day shutdown, the Star's, presses started up again, managed to get out a paper every day of the strike. Last week's armistice gave neither side the full fruits of victory. Reinstated were 45 editorial and advertising office Guildsmen. Nineteen circulation men, recently ordered reinstated by the National Labor Relations Board...
...last week there was little expression of it in Boston. Guest Speaker Glenn Frank, erstwhile president of the University of Wisconsin, rapped at the Administration, as did President Henning Webb Prentis of Armstrong Cork Co., and both were resoundingly clapped, but the vast majority of topics discussed in the four-day conclave dwelt upon problems more pertinent to bankers than to the nation...
...year of great labor upheavals, last week's ample budget of strikes all but constituted a lull. Many of them, like the Plymouth four-day walkout of 11,000 workers at Detroit, were caused by jurisdictional disease. Some of them, like the grave diggers of Kansas City who in one day kept ten bodies from burial, originated in nothing less prosaic than demands for union recognition, closed shop and wage increase. However, if strikes failed to make labor news, three utterances...