International projectionist (July-Dec 1934)

24 INTERNATIONAL PROJECTIONIST July 1934 Your Lheatre needs this TEST REEL • No longer need you be in doubt about your projection equipment delivering highest possible quality results. These reels, each 500 feet long, are designed to be used as a precision instrument in testing the performance of projectors. • The visual section includes special targets for detecting travel-ghost, lens aberration, definition, and film weave. The sound section includes recordings of various kinds of music and voice, in addition to constant frequency, constant amplitude recordings for testing the quality of reproduction, the frequency range, the presence of flutter, and 60-cycle or 96-cycle modulation, and the adjustment of the sound track. • For theatres, review rooms, exchanges, laboratories and wherever quality reproduction is desired. These reels are an S.M.P.E. Standard, prepared under the supervision of the Projection Practice Committee. "Invaluable. The finest technical contribution to the projection field since sound pictures were introduced." — HARRY RUBIN, Director of Projection, Publix Theatres. "No theatre that serves its patrons well should be without these test reels. Simply great."— R. H. McCULLOUGH, Fox West Coast Service Corp. "Eliminates all excuses for poor reproduction. Projectionists know just where they stand through the aid of these reels. I recommend them unqualifiedly."— THAD BARROWS, Publix Theatres, Boston, Mass. Price: $37.50 Each Section Including Instructions Address : SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE ENGINEERS 33 West 42nd St. New York, N. Y. In Michigan — it's Max Ruben for the best and most complete stock of theatre equipment — including visual and sound projection supplies — at the leading independent theatre supply house in the Middle West. AMUSEMENT SUPPLY CO. 208 W. Montcalm St. Detroit, Mich. SUIV ARC CARBONS Best by Test Used in Radio City by the World's largest theatres — RKO Music Hall RKO Roxy Samples on Request CARBON PRODUCTS, Inc. 324 West 42nd Street New York, N. Y. try. A company union at best controls only the laborers in a given factory. It is only one step better than the solitary individual in dealing with the corporate employer. The latter can bring in outsiders without number to take the place of striking employes. The company union is devastatingly open to the possibilities of espionage and coercion by employers. The union meetings are almost invariably held in the plant and permit of easy spying by the employers or their stool-pigeons. Other weaknesses are inherent in company unions. Limited by the perspective and resources of a single plant, they can formulate no such broad labor policies as can a national trade union. Nor can Erratum In our June issue it was erroneously reoprted' that the Western Electric reproducer had been adjudged by the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to have infringed certain flywheel patents owned by the American TriErgon Corp. Western Electric was not a defendant in this case, the action being against two theatres having RCA equipment. 1 "TriErgon Wins Two Patent Decisions", p. 7. they produce trained and specialized negotiators capable of coping with adroit employers, their attorneys or both. That the company unions are rarely, if ever, preferred by workers to broader trade unions is to be discerned in the fact that company unions have almost invariably developed only in industries where labor unionism has been effectively blocked. Used as a "Front" Yet workers prefer even this shadowy form of organization to nothing. This is attested by the fact that when Mr. Roosevelt came into office some form of company union existed in about 1,000 plants involving around 1,500,000 workers. The company union, then, is a "front" exploited by employers in their battle against genuine trade unionism. Just to the degree that the federal government surrenders to the company union travesty, just that far will it lose the respect of realistic and informed students of labor problems and economic conditions. British Theatre Wages Offer Interesting Contrast THAT wage scale controversies between exhibitors and projectionists are not confined to America is demonstrated by the following excerpt from the Journal of the British Kinema Projectionists Guild, which provides an interesting contrast between working conditions in England and America: "The Report of the Joint Conciliation Board of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Exhibitors' Association