Music: Fine Italian Hand

Labor's New Order in music continued its efforts to force the union label on the Boston Symphony Orchestra last week. From musical Rochester, N.Y. came word that the only major non-union orchestra in the U.S. will not play its annual December concert at Rochester's Eastman Theater this year. Reason: a threatened boycott of the theater by all union musicians.

This is not the first threat. In Springfield, Mass. two ominously polite letters last month told the committee in charge of the Municipal Auditorium that if the Boston Symphony plays there next winter, American...

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