Show ACTORS' ACTORS GUILD SEEKS FAIR PRACTICE CODE Report Shows 59 Per Cent of Film Workers Receive Less Than Annually HOLLYWOOD Jan 7 UP UP The The composite motion picture actor generally regarded as a spendthrift o of fabulous means was depicted in inan inan inart an art entirely di different light today by the Screen Actors' Actors guild demanding rules of fair practice for the industry In a page report filed with SolA SolA Sol Sol- A. A ad administrator of the film industry's N R A code the organization organization or or- headed by Eddie Cantor declared 59 per cent of the actors and actresses exclusive of extra players play play- ers err earned less than a year in 1933 O Of that number 28 per cent earned less than 1000 21 per cent less than 2000 and 10 per cent under The rest consisting of or players collected up to and beyond 63 being bracketed at the higher salary salary salary sal sal- ary figure From these salaries the wardrobes Challenging the producers producers' claims that higher salaries would wreck the industry the report cited that even evenin evenin evenn in n the worst year of or the depression oni 1 5 3 cents of or each dollar collected collect collect- ed at the box office went to actors' actors salaries It s sarcastically referred to disclosures of a recent senate invest investigation investigation gation committee that Louis B. B Mayer Irving Thalberg and Robert Rubin M G executives divided an mel melon n in one year The purpose of including these figures figures fig fIg- ures stated the report is not to show how much money executives make but to give some idea of ot how ill it becomes th these e gentlemen to protest that the industry cannot afford fair working conditions for actors It is even worse when we remember remember ber that most of or the men who now run the business business- and assert that actors actors' working conditions cannot be bettered bet bettered dragged the industry to the verge of bankruptcy took their em em- money for the purchase of stock at excessive figures and made madea a record cord of financial ruin that has been seldom equaled in the annals of American business The guild demands that the code I stipulate a basic work day of ot eight consecutive hours with at least 1 15 hours' hours rest between work periods I It also asks the code authority to outlaw outlaw outlaw out out- law the present way one contracts of free lancer actors by which the producer is permitted to break the agreement at will while the actor cannot The report was signed by Robert Rober Montgomery Claude King Ralph Morgan MorRan Kenneth Thomson and Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard Tucker |