Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1939 — Page 7

WATS FORLAW

Bioff Seeking. Wage Boost, Arranges to Surrentler -0On Pandering Charge.

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24 (U. P).— William Bioff, leader of 35,000 union movie workers, gave them a melodramatic jolt today by arranging to surrender on a 17-year-old pgndering charge a few hours before demanding of the picture producers a flat 10 per cent wage increase for followers. Bioff’s attorney, George M. Breslin, said he would give himself up voluntarily. at police headquarters on a warant from Chicago, and would seek his release on bail in time to confer with the picture makers later in the day. The West Coast agent of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees and center of perhaps the bitterest wage battle in the 25-year history of the movie industry, from his palatious ranch in the San Francisco Valley charged

that the pandering proceedings were|

part of a “plot to discredit and embarrass” him. ; ! Calls It. Shabby Trick He said it was “significant” that the warant from Chicago arrived on this particular day and added: “The persons who think this ghabby trick-is a legitimate way to fight the reasonable requests of the

Hollywood workers for a decent liv="

ing have &hother guess coming.” The Cook County Appellate Court asked for his arrest because he served less than a week of a sixmonth sentence in 1922, after his conviction of receiving $29 from an inmate of a house of prostitution. After six days in the Bridewell, he was released on appeal, but never completed his sentence after his conviction was affirmed. Court records do not explain how he escaped the rest of his jail term. ; Thousands k Him The thousands union men who regard Bioff as tfieir leader in the fight for higher wages, for which they threatened an industry-wide strike earlier this week, have heard reports for months about Bioff’s Chicago police record, but have remained steadfast. : What effect his arrest, on charges growing out of operations of a brothel, would have on their loyalty was problematical. Equally problematical was the effect on the wage negotiations. A week ago producers’ spokesmen admitted unofficially that Bioff held the whip hand through his threat to call every movie operator in America on a sympathy strike. They said this would darken 15,000 theaters, cut off Hollywood’s revenues, and deluge the movie bookkeepers with red ink. They predicted that the 10 per cent wage increase would be ‘forthcoming after a minimum of bickering. Today they were not so sure. If Bioff is extradited® to Chicago and put behind bars, they said they believed his power over the stage hands’ union would crumble.

REFUSES PENSION: “LIQUOR TAX-PAID IT

WEATHERFORD, Tex, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—Ray Bachman, 77, is so ardent a prohibitionist that he refuses even to apply for a state oldage pension‘ because most of the revenue comes from taxes paid on whisky, beer and wine. ; Bachman, once county. surveyor, said. that he became a foe of alcohol after a reckless youth. *I will starve rather than accept one penny that comes from liquor.”

State Prison = Set for Frisk

Times Special ; MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. 24. —Any future visitor to the Indi ana State Prison—even if it be the Governor — will be “frisked” when he enters the gates. An electrical metal detector was installed yesterday. : All visitors, including State officials, will deposit articles which cannot be taken inside, They then will pass through tne detector. A warning buzz and a flashing light will mean the visitor is carrying some steel article, If '@a manual search fails to find the article a “hand frisk” machine will be passed over the visitors’ body to locate it.

BRANGE BACKS U. S. PAYMENTS

Favors. Compensation for Farmers but Looks Forward to Its End.

PEORIA, Ill, Nov. 2¢ (U.P.).— The National Grange, policy-mak-ing body for 1,000,000 farmers, voted approval today of compensatory payments to farmers during emergency periods, but said it “confidently looked forward to expiration of emergency situations requiring Federal assistance for any economic group.” The Grange approved the resolution early today at the final session of its nine-day annual convention. g It also called for full discussion in Congress of the industrial mobilization plan, reaffirmed former Grange action demanding an “honest dollar,” and presented its recommendations for permanent and temporary agricultural programs.

2 Urges Permanent Program

It said a permanent program should be based on: (1) safeguarding and expanding the Amerjcan market for the American farmer, no additional lands to be placed in production through reclamation until need for them arises, (2) sound land-use policy from a conservation standpoint rather than for the purpose of limiting production, and (3). development of co-operative market-

ft said a temporary emergency program should provide: (1) compensatory payments on the domestically consumed portion of our export crops to provide parity prices ereon, (2) that production quotas receive compensatory payments shall be determined on a basis of past. history and shall be publicly posted,’ (3) administration by farmers, and (4) continued use of a portion of tariff revenues to dissipates surpluses at home and abroad.

Demands Honest Dollar

In calling for Congressional discussion of the industrial mobilization plan, the Grange asked that agriculture be given represeniation in agencies to be set up to administer the plan and recommended that provisions of the plan which would apply to agriculture in the event of war be made known to farmers for study. The “honest dollar” resolution called upon Congress to assume its constitutional right to “coin money and fix the value thereof.” In another resolution, the Grange called the attention of business and industry and labor to the “imperative need for restoring the pur-

chasing power of agriculture.”

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