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Show oo MANY ACTORS STRANDED BY FAILURES ON ROAD J NEW ViKK. Jan. ."..--'Five thous-j.md thous-j.md adtr'eeaes are unemployed here and muny others are Stranded it distant dis-tant points, victims of widespread failure fail-ure of road companies. This Statement was made b the Actors Ac-tors Equity association, which announced an-nounced it had undertaken to succor unfortunate stage folk. Tho greater proportion of road failures fail-ures the association asserted was due to Irresponsible managers who entered the profession during the war. From September. 1919, to the end pf l:20. more than 30 companies failed on tho road. the Statement said. NEW YORK, Jan. Z. All employes of the American Smelting and Refining Refin-ing company paid less than $0,000 a ear were notified Tuesday that their salaries w..uid be reduced fifteen per Oept The company also announced there would li no bonus this year. VKRnX, )., Jan. I. A reduction of 2 Per cent In w.iges of all factory employes effective January lu, and of 15 to -0 per cent In salaries of all office employes effective the same dato. was announced Tuesday by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company. Qoodyear officers declared the step was in keeping with the company's policy of retrenchment and readjustment' readjust-ment' LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan. 5. Resistance Re-sistance to any wage cut that may be made by tho American AVoolen I company was forecast In a letter sent to wiui. uu .m Wood, president of the company, by the Unrence Central council of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America. The letter declared that the workers work-ers "go clearly on record ns believing that there is no Justification for a wage cut In the textile Industry." It calls recent wage cuts by other textile manufacturers a "monstrous outrage." |