The Archive · 1937

LA.T.S.E. May Precipitate New Hollywood Strike

Hollywood, Sept. 11.

Foreshadowing what may possibly be the bitterest labour war in motion picture history, the powerful Interional Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees to-day demanded sole jurisdiction of all workers in the production end of picturemaking from the porters to the stars.

This move was considered certain to arouse bitter opposition from the Actors' Guild and the Painters' and Carpenters' Union.

'Attention was called to the fact that the LA.T.SE. and the Actors' Guild had recently suspended relations over the Guild's suspension of zn actress charged with strikebreaking during the Federated Motion Picture Crafts' walk-out last spring—United Press.

Mr. R. G. Howe, HM. Charge d'Affaires, was expected to leave Shanghai at 3 o'clock this morning for Nenking by motor-car.

His holiness Hsing-Sha-Pan-Chih Ta, the Living Buddha at the Lachiassu Monastery, passed away On September 8, states a dispatch to the "China Times" from Hsining.

THE Shanghai Football Association reminds club secretaries to forward their entries for the S.F-A. League divisions, to the Secretary, Room 4b, 119 Nanking Road, by September 15, when all entries close.

Exposure to the world of Japanese atrocities in Shanghai has been urged upon the Chinese delegation to the forthcoming session of the League of Nations in a message cabled by the All-Shanghai Association for the Support of Armed Resistance.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account