THEATRE EMPLOYEES SEEK AWARD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22429, 16 June 1938, Page 7

THEATRE EMPLOYEES SEEK AWARD

SPORTS BODIES CITED ,AS PARTIES NO AGREEMENT AT AUCKLAND IN CONCILIATION (PSESS AS3OCTATIOH TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND. June 15. An application to join as parties almost all of the sports bodies in Auckland was made in the dispute brought before the Conciliation Colmcil by the Northern Industrial Front-of-House Theatre Employees’ Union, It was proposed by the union that the award it sought should apply to all employees other than projectionists, musicians, and persons preparing food at any agricultural exhibition or show, cabaret, cinema, circus, cricket ground, cycle exhibition, night club, racecourse, skating rink, stadium, speedway, tennis ground, theaitre, zoological park, or any place where boxing, concert, dramatic, operatic, vaudeville, wrestling, or other entertainments were held, and for which there was a charge for admission. It was intended that the award should apply to “voluntary” workers. Various sports and other bodies applied to be removed from the dispute, and their applications were referred to the Court of Arbitration. The dispute was heard before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr R. E. Price). Increases in wage rates were applied for. The following' were the proposed rates, the present rates being shown in parenthesis:—Caretaker, £5 12s '6d a week (city theatres £4 12s, suburban £4 ss); continuous shows, female ticket-sellers. £3 2s 6d; (£1 16s); ushers, £3 (£1 16s); other female attendants, £2 17s (£1 16s); male ticket-takers, £4 5s (£3 16s); night show announcers, lss a performance (city ss, outside 4s 6d); ticketsellers, 9s 6d (ss); ushers, 9s (city ss, outside 4s 6d); all other attendants, 8s 6d (city ss, outside 4s 6d). The employers’ counter-proposals were for the rates and provisions of the present award. Except for five new small clauses, no agreement was made, the whole dispute being referred to the Court.