Evening star., 1946-10-02
$50 Demonstrators
March Around MGM
In Film Studio Strike
ey the Associated Press

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/ HOLLYWOOD, Oct. .2.-Several
hundred movie labor demonstrators
marched nine times around the
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer studio this
morning-but nothing happened. !
AS the paraders, four abreast,
singing and counting cadence, con-
tinued their tramp for nearly two
hours, their numbers grew to about
750. One hundred and fifty sheriff's
deputies, helmet-clad and armed
with nightsticks, watched them from
the sidewalk, while two to three
hundred more officers waited nearby.
And each time one of the II United
States flags carried by the paraders
came by, hte sheriff's men gave it
a snappy salute.
Herbert Sorrell, leader of the
striking conference Of Studio Union
workers, told reporters after the
demonstration stopped that nothing
happened today because the officers
didn't attack us.
Relatively Little Disorder.
IT told the sheriff that If he
wanted to start something, to Con
tact U.s." a remark interpreted to
mean contracting the strikers with
night sticks or other weapons.
There was relatively little disorder
during the long march. A dozen
or more large buses carried workers
through the main studio gates amid
Ia furry Of rocks from nearby picketS,
and one window was broken.
Many Of the paraders wore parts
of military uniforms, and those in
the first ranks marched with an
experienced swing. Others, farther
back along the line, gave less evi-
dence of martial training. and there
were a number OF women among
them.
Carried Tear Bombs.
The sheriff's deputies, packing gas
masks and tear gas grenades, kept,
the bulk Of the strikers away from
the studio entrance, leaving only
eight pickets at the gate, in con-
formance with court orders.
In a bloody battle between peace
officers and 400 movie pickets at the
M-G-M gates yesterday-with night
sticks, bottles, rocks and clubs as
weapons and at least one pistol in
evidence-37 men were injured and
13 jailed.
OF the injured, 20 were pickets
and nine were sheriff's deputies. The
arrests brought to So the total since
picketing began last Thursday
morning, in row between the CSU
and International Alliance of The
atrical Stage Employees over which
should build movie sets.
Invitation Rejected.
IATSE Chief Roy Brewer rejected
an invitation by the Los Angeles
Central Labor Council to a peace
conference with the CSU carpen-
ters' brotherhood until such time as
acts Of violence against our mem
bers cease"
Mr.. Brewer, who has announced
that the stage union members would
refuse to work with carpenters in
any studio charged that systematic
eUortS are pelng made 70 sabotage
his unions work in studios where
both are still working together.
Yesterdays fight at MGM, which
has seen. most Of the violence Of,
the current dispute similar in1
many ways to the 34-week dispute
between the same two union groups
last year-started when oficers
moved against a parade spear
headed by war veterans carrying
flags and signs reading:
"We fought for our country and
the ideals Of Roosevelt
Flag Stopped the Fight.
The officers contended the parade
was blocking the entrance to the
studio, in violation Of the court order.
The CSU retorted it had obtained
a permit for the parade.
The skirmishing halted while off,
GERS snapped to attention and sa-
luted the flag being carried past by
parading pickets, in new strength.
After the flag passed they con-
tinlIed the fight