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wII5- !L- 1«!IItg! 1.leEl Paso Union Starts Boycott Against Texas Grand)El Paso union theater employes today started a campaign against the Hart Players, stock company which will open tomorrow at the n i Texas Grand.Union leaders asserted the company refuse;! to discusse a contract with them, and imported stage 1 hands and musicians from the coast, j “This is no time to bring in outside labor,’’ said Samuel Cohen, . ' business representative of the ’ I Theatrical Stage Employes and 1 Moving Picture Operators, local 153. j -“I have members who are des-c j perate enough to do anything.”* Cohen said the only El Paso em-“ ; ployes arp usherettes, “who will re-a | ceive 45 cents a night and 25 centse-! a matinee, or the huge salary of y j $3.90 per weei*..” i The unions, in an advertisement today, declared prices of the com-te j pany's shows in San Bernardino, sr ! Calif., were 25 cents for adults, w'hile those in El Paso are 75 , 50 and 35 cents for evening performances.J. E. Brown, business managersaid the company employed 30 persons, and that the box office em-i-►—Le-BIRMINGHAM t, Ala.—A moment after Nell Williams, society girl, reaffirmed identification of a negro held as the slayer of her sister and another girl in a mountain hold up. he was shot down in the jail by her brother, Dent Williams.The shooting came as a dramatic climax to an inquiry Asst. Solicitor J. M. Long was conducting at the Jefferson county prison last night in the presence of members of the Williams family.Today the negro. Willie Peterson, 34, wras in a critical condition at a hospital here while city and county officers stood guard with riot guns to prevent possible disorder.More than 100 members of the Birmingham units of the Alabama national guard were mobilized against an emergency.ployes and usherettes, numbering 10, are El Pasoans.“I do not wish to enter a controversy with the unions,” Harvey H. Hart said.“The Hart players consider themselves an ‘industrial’ asset to S3 Paso. They have become residents of the city and the money realized from the sale of their products will be spent in El Paso.”
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Sat, Oct 03, 1931
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