MUSICIANS PROTEST
Proposed Engagement • Of Australian Orchestra
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 8. A stir has been caused among professional musicians by the desire of a theatrical management to bring an Australian orchestra of 28 players to tour New Zealand with a visiting theatrical company in the near future. The New Zealand Arbitration Act fixes a union membership fee at 5/- on the basis of compulsory unionism, and New Zealand musicians desiring to perform in Australia have tirs.t to be approved for union membership and then to pay the high admission fee of £2l. Efforts made by the organizations in both countries to arrange a reciprocal agreement have failed.
The Auckland union has forwarded to its national executive in Wellington a protest against the proposal to permit an Australian orchestra to tour the Dominion, contending that the company should bring only players such as cannot lie supplied in the Dominion.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 12
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