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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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Despite a strike by 200 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus employees demanding higher wages, the show continues in New York with volunteers assisting at Madison Square Garden. Officials predict a compromise; last night's performance proceeded with omissions and audience help.
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NEW YORK, April 13 (UP)—The show goes on today despite a strike of 200 employees of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus—even if they have to call for volunteers from the audience to haul the cage of Gargantua, the gorilla, and move the pedestal from the living statues.
Circus officials predicted there would be a compromise in the strike and that before night it would again be the greatest show on earth instead of a hodge-podge of acts in which the giant, the fat lady and the midgets haul on ropes as well as do their acts.
The strikers are demanding "under canvas" wages for the performances in Madison Square Garden where it is unnecessary to hoist the big top. John Ringling North, circus head who turned roustabout at last night's performance, refused at first to grant the wage increase. Strikers included roustabouts and wagon drivers. No performers were involved.
Twelve thousand persons were in the garden last night when the strike was called. They seemed to have a good time despite the fact the program was discarded and four acts were omitted. In fact, spectators saved the show on at least one occasion. The curtailed crew was struggling to move the pedestal after the living statues did their act. It was no go until John Traendly, a horticulturist, and Merle Meyer, a salesman, who had been watching the show from a box, jumped over the rail and put their shoulders to the pedestal.
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New York
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April 13
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show continued with volunteers from audience; four acts omitted last night; 12,000 spectators attended; predicted compromise before night; no performers involved.
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Strike of 200 roustabouts and wagon drivers demanding 'under canvas' wages for Madison Square Garden performances. John Ringling North initially refused increase but turned roustabout. Last night, program discarded; spectators John Traendly and Merle Meyer helped move pedestal after living statues act. Officials expect compromise to restore full show.