The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26
Stagehands Hear
Pleas To Enter
Political Arena

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Cleveland (LPA)-A strong en-
phasis on the need for political ac-
tion marked the 39th biennial con-
vention Of the Int'l Alliance of The
atrical State Employees & Motion
Picture Operators-AFL last week.
AFL President William Green
told delegates that "if you want
security and progress and better
America for yourself and your chill
dren, do not neglect to vote"
The 1100 IATSE delegates heard
bitter assault by the AFL head
on the 80th Congress. The only
people who can benefit by the fail
ure of the last Congress, Green
declared, are Stain and his Krem-
lin colleagues. The Soviet Union
is counting upon crash in Ameri-
ca to destroy our efforts to pre-
vent the spread of Communist inn
perialism and to preserve world
peace" Green asserted. "They
know they cannot contest strong
America, so they are confidently
waiting for US to ride the boom
to ruin"
Director oJseph Keenan, of La
boris League for Political Action,
Secretary treasurer Phil Hannah of
the Ohio State Federation of La
Dor, and Rep. Michael Feighan 3D.,
Ohio) all directed their talks to
political action.
In reports to the convention,
Richard F. Walsh, IA president,
discussed the unions problems in
the field Of television and in the
Hollywood motion picture studios.
Walsh reported that the IATSE
is encountering some difficulty in
keeping its jurisdiction in television
employment, since many workers
in the field are hired from radio
stations or obtained from technical
schools of engineering appreciate
the values of unionism. However,
he assured the convention that the
IATSE would not back away from
the fight to maintain its jurisdic-
tion in the television industry.
Speaking Of the jurisdictional
dispute in the film studios between
the IATSE unions and those led by
Herbert Sorrell, Hollywood labor
leader accused of leftist activities,
Walsh stated that "the entire case
is now in the hands of a special
Congressional investigating com
| don't know what the COM
mittee's findings will be, and |
don't care. We've given them our
story. In the meantime,
we're in the Hollywood studios, our
members are working, and we in
tend to stay there"
The international problems of the
motion picture industry were taken
up by another speaker at the lat
SE convention, Tom O'Brien, mem
ber of Parliament and general sec
rotary of the British Natl Associa-
tion of Theatrical a. Kline En-
ployes.
OBrien also touched upon the
of American labor under
the Taft Hartley act and reported
that eve too had our Taft Hartley
laws in England. And | would say
that if it were not for the fact that
we have Labor government, we
would be suffering as you are suf-
fering today.
ain 1945 our trade unions along
with other people who believed in
the cause of social justice put into
power what we believe to be a
peoples government. And the first
action that government took when
it came into power was To keep
its pledges to wipe the tyranny of
anti-trade- union laws from the staAI
tutes. | hope that American labor
will also come back to power in
November"
Other speakers at the IATSE
during the week includ-
ed Edward Arnold, motion picture
star and former president of the
Screen Actors Guild, Mayor Thom-
as A. Burke, Michael Lyden, presi-
dent of the Ohio State Federation
Of Labor, and John f. Burns, presi-
dent of the Cleveland Federation
Of Labor.