New-York tribune., 1919-08-20
IN. Then who suffers? All of us,

OH. men VINO sun crS All OF us,
undoubtedly
"Gcntlemen, il the Actors Equity
Association is permitted to live. if the
actor is denied his personality, his
manhood, or the actress her woman
hood, if they no longer can give me
their heart and soul. your plays will
fail. Your fight is our fight. God help
us if Francis Wilson, Frank Gilmore
Mountford and Fitz Patrick are allowed
to remain as dictators. If they do re
main tell you there will be no theatre.
think you will have to excuse me.
Mr.. Belasco appeared to be on the
verge Of collapse and when he sat down
turned his back to the gathering.
Roi Cooper Megruc then asked the
committee of managers: Have you any
solution in mind p
Arthur Hopkins said:
1--WE think the solution is in the
formation of another body OF actors
We can't deal with the Equity. ! do
not know whether any of you saw
George NJ. Cohans offer to finance
such an organization with 100000 and
devote his life to it,"
1t had been agreed that the play
wrights would not receive or speed
either delegation with demonstrations.
SO the managers flied out of the room
was sent to inform the repre- sentatives
Of the Actors Equity Association that
the playwrights were ready for them.
Mr.. Gilmore gave the actors version
of the pre-strike negotiations and then
said of the strike, and especially of
those striking actors whose contracts
with the managers had not expired:
eve all think we are morally right,
even if we should be held by some
court to be technically, legally wrong" >"
Closed Shop Idea Denied
He denied that the actors desired a
closed shop. and said the managers
citation did not want closed shop. Mr.
Turner also told the playwrights the
closed shop was not desired by the
striking actors, and Attorney Rubin
told them none realized better than the
actor that Standardization of their
wages and other features of the closed
shop were impossible Of application to
artists of the theatre. Before they
left. the playwrights said, they We're
desired by anybody connected with the
strike.
Rupert Hughes, after the departure
of the actors representatives. said:
Both sides seem to be within one
point of agreement ccogntion of the
Actors Equity Association Harsh
words have been spoken on both sides,
but the words can be forgotten. Our
problem is to end the strike. One
thing is certain, the Actors Equity AS
socation cannot be supplanted"
Eugene Walter said
Let's have no snap Judgment We
ought to sleep over this; appear here
at 1890 in the morning and decide
whether we want to do anything.o
Everybody agreed to this
Film Workers in Meeting
About 100 motion picture actors.
actresses and extra people met last
night in Unity Hall, 34l West Forty
seventh Street, to form a union to be
AFFILIATED with the American Federation
OF Labor. George Dupre presided. Mrs.
NJ. I. Scully the only woman organizer
of the american Federation of Labor.
eSpIalned e Ia the benefits of organization
to the gathering, and other speakers
were Richard Nelson and Louis Harri-
SON. mr.. Harrison said the entire the
a'rlcal industry was subject just now
10 "dramatic revolution"
FRANK Sheridan was there on behalf
of the Actors Equity Association. The
hall was rented by Miss Mildred Man
nng, who played the leading roles in
tne y. henry series produced by the
''dSiaPh Company
CHICAGO, Aug. 1sAOn petition of
the managers of the Woods Theatre,
Judge Mangan to-day issued an order
citing +. n. Nockels, secretary of the
Chicago Federation of Labor, who
called the strike at that theatre; Hazel
Dawn, Walter Jones and the other
members of the cast playing "Up in
Mabel's Room" to appear August 26
and show cause why they shall not be
punished for contempt for closing the
theatre last Saturday night by Strike
In violation Of an agreement between
counsel for the theatre and counsel for
the Actors Equity Association.
The armistice agreed to was that
there should be no further strike pend