Word: employables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boiled down, the union's demands were simple and thoroughgoing. Every radio station that used records would have to maintain an acceptable number of musicians on its payroll. All these musicians must be union members. No station could transmit music to a pickup station that did not employ musicians. Every station must be licensed by the A. F. of M., use only records and transcriptions similarly licensed. Every contract between a local and a radio station must clearly acknowledge these terms. Before playing canned music the announcer must announce it as such...
...time it looked as if broadcasters might make their peace. What they could not agree to, however, was the provision touching transmission of music to stations that do not employ musicians. It seemed to the radio people that they ought to be permitted to broadcast wherever and to whomever they pleased, that it was the musicians' job to get small stations to hire more men. Joseph Weber, knowing full well that they were attacking his most crucial demand, stood up bravely, sent many a radio representative home to sleepless nights. Because musicians are as tightly organized as any labor...
...statement that I was "cashiered" from the Naval Service is unfounded and derogatory to my character and reputation. The term "cashiered" definitely implies that severance from the Service was the result of dishonorable misconduct. I resigned from the U. S. Navy in February in 1929 to enter the employ of Maddux Airlines a Manager of Operations. Attached hereto is a copy of the Secretary of the Navy's letter dated 28 December 1928 accepting my resignation...
...Department of Labor says each man on contract construction under the commendable Ickes' WPA program meant 3½ men working. Construction, the slowest of the great industries to recover, is operating on less than 50% of normal volume. If it were on a normal volume basis, it could employ 2,500,000 more men than it is now using. This, singularly, is the number now on "relief...
...current worries of customers' men is the innovation by this firm and C. D. Barney & Co. of "account supervision" departments which employ statisticians and researchers instead of affable but ill-informed conversationalists...