VIOLINIST’S PROTEST
REFUSAL TO JOIN UNION United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright LOS ANGELES, October 28. Declaring that the rights of v the individual in a democratic country were involved, Yehudi Menuhin, the famous violinist, refused to join the American Guild of Musical Artists in order to play in a concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. “I consider this sort of thing degrading,” he said. “It is as if you demand husbands and wives to have union cards and regulations for governing their hours together; or as if Christ and his Apostles were submitted to union regulations.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21181, 31 October 1938, Page 2
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99VIOLINIST’S PROTEST Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21181, 31 October 1938, Page 2
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