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What saved the Atlantic City meeting from being altogether colorless and routine was a sudden A. F. of L. interest in unionized racketeering. Before the council, by Investigator Edward F. McGrady, was laid the specific case of President Sam Kaplan of Motion Picture Machine Operators Union Local 306, New York City. The council referred the Kaplan matter to President William C. Elliott of the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employes who promised "special attention immediately." Then easy-going William Green, A. F. of L. president, came out with a public statement which, for him, sounded like a trumpet blast...
Notorious in New York is Sam Kaplan's rule over cinema theatres. He and 24 other officers of Local 306 are under criminal conspiracy indictments as the result of a rebellion by eight members who object to his methods. Local 306 has also been charged with operating the forbidden "permit system" whereby President Kap lan allows operators outside the union to work in return for 20% of their wages. His strongarm man, one Greenberg, has served a six-month jail sentence for as sault...
Besides running the union. President Kaplan heads a firm which sells projection equipment. The wise theatre owner knows that by patronizing the Kaplan firm he will have no labor troubles in his cinema house...
...Kaplan's known income is $21,800 per year ? $1,800 as union president, $20,000 as its chief organizer. What he makes from his equipment company is unrevealed. In 1930 his henchmen, organized as the Sam Kaplan Protection Society, voted him a $25,000 gift...
Wales Scholarship: A. J. Derbyshire, Utica, N. Y.; Jeffries Wyman Scholarships: W. G. Hamilton, Laclede, Mc.; H. M. Kaplan, Revere, Mass.; University Scholarships: Spencer Brown, Hartford, Conn.; N. B. DeNood, Cambridge, Mass,; Hans Fischel, New York City; Harold Gershinowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. A. Gutherie, Madison, Wis.; Leo A. T. Haak, Cambridge, Mass.; J. W. Havighurst, Jacksonville, Ill.; R. D. Humphrey, St. John, N. B., Canada; J. E. Johnson, Whitford, Pa.; K. B. Krishna Madras, India; C. G. Lalicker, Norman, Okla.; H. H. Lane, Barre, Vermont; Bernard Lemann, New Orleans, La.; D. W. Meiklejohn, Madison, Wis.; Brooks Otis Richmond, Indiana...