Bad for Balletomanes
After the engineers and the railwaymen, the ballet dance Trouble on this unexpected sector of the industrial front ga balletomanes a nasty jolt when it was announced that 1 Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet were to cancel all perform in in the season beginning September 6. This decision was tak after the refusal of the dancers to sign their new contra because the management had rejected their claim for a increase of thirty shillings a week for the whole company. management's objection is one of principle (there is only a f pounds difference in all between their own proposals for increase and that put forward by the company). It is the rate that they object to : they must, so they say, be free reward hard work and to penalise slackness by means differential rates. To which Equity replies, in the name of tl company, that the rates are too low in any case and that general increase is both fair and necessary. But balletomarl' are bad folk to cross, and the people representing the to parties to the dispute would be well advised to come to agreement soon. Otherwise they may well stand in se danger of being torn to pieces by infuriated fans as Penthet was once by the. Bacchanals. ,
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