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...President Charles Humphrey Hamill of the Orchestral Association, is as much to blame as Depression. It demands $268,822 for 97 players (in 1891, the payroll for 80 players was $90,000). Understanding musicians used to run Chicago's music union but now shrewd swart James C. Petrillo is in command. Said he last week: ''There is no question of a reduction of the wage scale. ... If the public will not pay for good music, it is Chicago's loss...
...unlike the musicians of the Chicago Civic Opera (TIME, April 11), they had not obtained their demands. The patrons and managers of fine music in the city of wind and superlatives were convinced that symphonic salaries could be boosted no higher. In consequence President James C. Petrillo of the Chicago Musicians Association was obliged to announce that there will be no Chicago Symphony next year. Messrs. Jiskra, Recoschewitz, Napolilli, Trnka, et al. prepared, as a bad press punster wrote, to disband. Conductor Frederick A. Stock, however, was reported reengaged at his usual salary, to give him time to compose...