The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-06
STRIKE OF ACTORS
COMES TO AN END


Contiaued from First Poge
by their president, George NJ. Conan.
and as a result OF this announcement It
developed that the Fidelity League Is
also seeking recognition.
Indications were yesterday that labor
leaders antagonized recognition Of the
OF the rocks on which the peace ship
foundered on Thursday.
Order Ban ON shuberts.
Tho stage hands union last night sent
out word TO It's locals all over the coun-
try declaring the Shubert Theatres to
be unfair" and directing that every
Shubert house In the United States and
Canada be closed This In construed on
Broadway as the first move by affiliated
labor in the campaign limited at by
Equity leaders recently to embroil the
whole Of this country and Canada In the
theatrical war.
As a result of this nationwide cru
SADIE the headquarters Of the Interna-
tional Alliance of theatrical Stage EN-
ployees and Motion Picture Machine Op-
orators received reports tonight tina,
two Shubert houses had been closed al
ready, the FIRST being the Avon Theatre
in Pittsburg. where Civilian Clothes" a
production by oliver Morosco, was hold.
ing the boards. and the second being q
theatre In Bangor Me-, where ''F1o-F1o, >
a musical comedy, originally produced by
John Cort, was cutting up.
It was also noised along Broadway
that a theatre in Baltimore had beer
snuffed out The direction for thif
wholesale closing was sent out by the
stage hands union In 1es kilograms &c
la .G~r
warned all those who assisted the Shu.
berts that they would be liable to LOSE
their membership In the unfon and b
subject to other penalties
Good News I'm 4s Hours.
Mr.. Cohan addressing the meeting
told the 700 players pefore him thai
last Thursday the Producing Managers
Association asked him to take assur.
ances to the Fidelity League that there
would be interesting news in forty-eighi
hours.
Then matters took another turn
said Mr.. Conan. This afternoon II
looked like another deadlock. At
o'clock In the afternoon Augusta,
Thomas came to my Office and asked &c
see Mr.. Harris. After comforting will
came back and told me he had gone be-
fore the producing managers and ar
ranged the meeting between them
Equity officers, attorneys for both sides
and labor leaders-that Is now taking
place tonight.
I'VE are not represented at this meet
ing, because 1 believe the object is tc
determine where and how we got on and
where we get of. have told them that
already"
He said the producing managers told
him the reason why they sent out the
statement on Thursday night was be-
cause they considered the matter wa,
finally settled. Referring TO a report
that Immediately after giving out this
statement the managers had called ur
Augustus Thomas, which started the
new negotiations. Mr.. Cohan said. Il
understand the negotiation was started
by attorneys for both sides Some oil
the evening papers said they were
started by the Producing Managers As
| ISOLATION. 1 am sure that is not RICH,
because I have been close to the Pro-
ducing Managers Association since left
it We may get some news from tbs
Producing Managers Association to-
night, but whether good or bad, there
| is one thing we must stand for as ar
organization that Is recognition Tha,
we must have"
Peace Hope Yet Lives.
There still was hope yesterday tina,
Sam Harris, president OF the Producing
Managers Association. and Francis VII
son, president Of the Actors Equity As
ISOLATION. might yet sing a peace duet
As one theatrical executive close to on,
OF the biggest managers himself said
the mere fact that negotiations had beer
| started was an encouraegging sign
since earlier In the conflict both side,
apparently had sworn by the beard o.
the prophet never TO have anything Il
do with each other again. Even though
| the actors had rejected the offer Of tn,
managers. this executive felt that thil
conference would lead to others. sine,
| Equity official and producing manager
no longer give one another the silenc,
when they meet.
II such clinics are to be held in Tn,
future Hugh Frayne, general organize
of the State Federation of Labor, Will,
admitting at the Equity mass meeting
In the Lexington Theatre yesterda,
afternoon that there was such a posi-
bility. declared that the managers woult
have TO be represented by a committee o.
their membership rather than by the at
tornsys who have been handling tn
portfolio Of peace during the last few
days. Mr.. Frayne told the 1000 player
who formed the mass OF the meeting
and who cheered at the slightest en-
couragement to manifest to the man
ayers that they were still defiant, tina
the lawyers who conducted matters hat
only unused up the situation.
The labor leaders speech, which wa