THEATRES MAY CLOSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18206, 27 September 1922, Page 9

THEATRES MAY CLOSE.

m THREAT OF A STRIKE*;; ACTORS' WAGES REDUCID. LOBIX)N, S«pt. 1& Becatuse the theatrical managers ar»'-.''.-,-about to terminate what is knovm as thar "standard Itouring contract" for actors, and thus force down wages, a theatrical. «g strike that may close many thftafanas » impending. L * ".-.- "~/.'-\'.'" Mr. Lngg, the secretary of the Actors' . 4; . Association, says that the alwlition of the contract enables msmagers to dictate their own terms outside, ithe West End tneatrea,! Extremisls in the association .are urging "one big union" of? theatrical; lempioyeesi * which would give them power to "cidso down every theatre in a niglri^'*_ L ---'_ Actors complain tiiat tie present trad* ;- depression has reacted disastrously err " ' the stagey which has experienced the-worst period .61 unemployment wii&nr ■'"■•_, ■memory.."...'; .';."' ;, ';.""';'.'•" V *TJte_ managers rstort that the r j are "equitaJote, and are the result. o| tfi#. I rise iii die wagesJTor cha.-ns girls..' ■•fafarsf' -.'/^ v rages, they say, must be reduced.. ". .."",.