The Connecticut labor news., 1924-03-15
ACTORS IN GREAT
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 emphatically mean that any new offer must come from the managers. They must now take the initiative The dissenting group in the P. M. A. has said that rather than agree to Equity Shop they will declare a lockout, and from this position they must recede. If they want concession and ask for it the council will consider it and our people will pass upon it.
 This resolution means that we must now prepar for battle. It means that If war Is forced upon us all chance of any concessions whatsoever for the manages Is gone and gone for good, but 1t does not mean that we will re- fuse to listen to any proposals which the Producing Managers Association, or any new association of managers may make to us. We arnestly desire pace, but 1t must be a peace which guarantees to us the If, integrity and strength of our association
 The tand of the actors was sertngth- ef1d by the p1dgei of American Fed eration of Labor support, which was brought to the meeting by Hugh Frayne, state organizer. Mir. Frayne's message, 1t was understood, came from Samuel Gompers, and pledged the full support of the parent body to the actors if a struggle with the managers should come. It was understood to mean that in the event of a strike the union musicians and stage hands would come to the support of the actors union, as tehy did in the strike of 1929.
 The meeting was a closed one, but at its conclusion MT. Emerson and Frank Gilmore, executive secretary, de- clared that Winifred Lenihan, the Joan in Bernard Shows ::Saint Joan," and Richard Bennett, now starring in "The Dancers, ,"~were the onlyn ones who opposed the resolution offered by the council. Both of these players, MT. Gilmore said, voted Ill the negative, because they were not conversant with all the facts. Even so, Mir. Gilmore said, both Miss Lenihan and MT. Ben nett declared their answering alleg lance to the union and their readiness
 D act with their fellow members of the emergency arose.
 Neither the officers of the Actors Equity Association nor the members who attended the meeting have been impressed by statements by various managers that they would retire from the closed ship, MT. Emerson said.
 play producing rather than submit to
 "The managers know they haven't chance to win. MT. Brady and many others have acknowledged that. MT. Shubert knows it. That is the differ ence between him and his asIociates, and the rest of the P M. A. MT. Shu- bert and his allies have the vision to see the inevitable outcome. The oth- CTS, apparently, have not Mr. Shubert has asserted consistently and persist entity that he will not close hA; thea ters, and 1 believe he is perfectly sin cere in saying this. He would prefer to see the F. M. A. kept together, as we would; but if the P. M. A. refuses to propose any acceptable agreement, it is my opinion that MT. Shubert will leave the P. M A. with as many as will fol- Joy him and form new association which will sign an agreement with Equity"
 The meeting, it was said, was par ticularly enthusiastic and cheered such stars as Laurette Taylor, Elsie Gergu- son and Jane Cowl when they declared in support of the Equity Shop demand.