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8 VARIETY ■ a "CLOSED SHOP WINS" WHITE RATS LOSE IJJ OKLAHOMA CITY Like every other report emanating from the Agitator he has sent broadcast to the managers and artists a circular with a heading "Closed Shop Wins. Arbitration Board in Oklahoma City decides in Favor of White Rats." The facts are that the White Rats have lost their strike in Oklahoma City and that die Arbitration Board, instead of deciding anything, made two rec- ommendations! and right here let us state that the reason why the Arbitration Board did not decide anything was because they had not power or au- thority to decide, but only the power to recommend. The two recommendations were as follows: First, that the Agitator had too much brains for any- one man and the Board, therefore, decided he had better consult an alienist. Secondly, that if the man- agers were agreeable^they might test or try out the "closed shop" in vaudeville. We do not know whether the Agitator has accepted the recommenda- tion which concerned his over-abundance of brain, but we do know that the managers absolutely re- jected the recommendation for testing out the "closed shop/ 9 and the Agitator left Oklahoma City with another rank failure added to his already long of failures. The reason why the Agitator picked Oklahoma for his first strike was because the Oklahoma Labor Laws are about the most stringent and far- reaching of any State in the Union. After picking his own fighting ground, choosing his own weapons and taking plenty of time to map out his plan of action, the Agitator has had the thrashing of his life, and when he forthwith rushes into print with a cir- cular headed "Closed Shop Wins," he makes another bid for the artists' money and has not the nerve to sign the circular himself, but sticks the name of "Geoffrey O. Whalen" to the bottom of it. The Agi- tator's bluffs have been called so often that he has recently been compelled to use the names of both the high and low officers of the organization on his pub- licity matter. Not only has he run out of money, but ne has run out of nerve. STRIKE OR NO STRIKE IN OKLAHOMA CITY, THE MANAGERS WILL HAVE NOTH- ING TO DO WITH WHITE RATS. The managers made their statement in last week's "Variety" on pages 12 and 13. VAUDEVILLE MANAGERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION