Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing more daring than an occasional contribution to strikers and active leadership in the Screen Actors' Guild. But last week he and such other notably social-conscious cinemactors as Fredric March, Chester Morris, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Jean Muir and Edward Arnold were debating something really big-a strike of the Guild which would shut every film studio down tight. While a committee headed by President Robert Montgomery negotiated the Guild's demands with representatives of producers, a hundred or more stars gathered nightly at the homes of March, Morris and Cagney to talk strike. Asking nothing...
Every night producers and Guild officers talked until 2 or 3 a. m. While her husband, Franchot Tone, backed up President Montgomery with telling arguments, Second Vice President Joan Crawford knitted away like a Madam Defarge, occasionally stiffening the men's backbones with her cry: "We strike!" Meantime the Guild's senior members were being polled, voting overwhelmingly for a strike if negotiations broke down. In prospect was the extraordinary spectacle of the cinema's top celebrities marching in picket lines outside studios and theatres. Stuntmen and cowboy actors prepared to organize a troop of 300 horsemen...
That evening some 4,000 grimly serious actors, not yet informed of the agreement, swarmed to Hollywood's barnlike American Legion Stadium with minds made up about how to mark the strike ballots they were handed at the door. Loud were the cheers when President Montgomery, dog-tired but icy-cool, announced the settlement. Since formal contracts had yet to be signed, and other producers, notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal...
...been sold down the river," cried the head of Federated Motion Picture Crafts, his hopes of a sympathetic Guild strike crushed. "The working people of this country made these stars. And we will break them...
...Manhattan the rank & file insurgents of A. F. of L.'s International Seamen's Union who staged the "unauthorized" maritime strike in Atlantic and Gulf ports last autumn (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) finally made a clean break with their old leaders, set up a new National Maritime Union claiming 28,000 members. Announced were plans to join C. I. O., to demand National Labor Relations Board elections to decide whether the old union or the new should have exclusive bargaining rights...