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...International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators) had convened. Among its bigwigs are, or were: Nick Dean (known to Chicago police as Nick Circella), Willie Bioff. Convicted once of assault with intent to murder, Nick has been arrested for robbery, stealing automobiles. After Columnist Westbrook Pegler's recent acrimonious cam paign, Willie Bioff was cast into jail to serve out an old sentence for pandering...
...faces a Federal charge of income-tax evasion when he gets out. Fumed Pegler, the whole union is "A vicious racket preying on the rank and file of American worked...
...Greenpish-tushed Mr. Pegler, told I. A. T. S. E. it could be sure of his sup port,"everywhere, anywhere and all of the time." The union passed a resolution which said: "Be it firmly resolved...
...cigar smoke still in his clothes, considered, agreed to the first two, hedged on the third. At week's end, valiant Mr. Dubinsky led the garment workers back anyway, deciding apparently that he could fight for his third point better from within than from without. Said Pegler: "The garment workers . . . have begun a fight against . . . criminals in organized labor, and David Dubinsky will deserve credit for the eventual victory." Mr. Green was still popular enough to get kissed by lady delegates, but in A. F. of L. it was Mr. Dubinsky who was making the good news...
Columnists Westbrook Pegler, the late Heywood Broun (both onetime baseball writers) and many a sportswriter have protested against color discrimination in big-league baseball. The owners and managers say that their Southern players and their visits to Southern training camps would make trouble if Negroes were on the team. But many a shepherd of a limping major club has made no secret of his yearning to trade more than a couple of buttsprung outfielders for colored players of the calibre of Satchelfoots Paige...