Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever the opening night of "Too Late To Laugh" proved about the merits of the Dramatic Club's new production, it did spotlight the slow strangling of education in dramatics by unreasonable labor union restrictions. Prevented from procuring a Boston theatre, the Club was compelled to use Sanders, where, as critics almost universally pointed out, the effectiveness of the play was marred by inadequate facilities...
...responsibility for this must be squarely laid at the door of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, one of our most arbitrary and unsavory unions. Its leaders are a colorful crew, to say the least. Take Uncle Willie Bioff, for example, whose name has been connected with three labor murders, who has been charged with accepting a one hundred thousand dollar bribe, and convicted of pandering in Chicago. But the union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands...
Unions like this one do more than wreak havoc in their own particular industries; they besmirch the name of the entire labor movement. If allowed to go on as they are now, they will ultimately work their own destruction, but in the debacle they may ruin the drama as an art. Playwright and flyman alike have a heavy stake in cleaning up the mess...
Since the cost of labor has become a major item on the budget of the dining halls, the movement for student waiters will probably gain force...
...increase in wages granted to waitresses last spring was given by Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, as the main cause for the change in board rates this fall. He stated last year that "the cumulative effect of these (labor) adjustments has been such that for the past two years the receipts of dining halls have failed by a considerable margin to cover the charges...