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1626 K STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Vol. 8, No. 1, January 5, 1940
Congress Starts; Radio Legislation Improbable
Congress set to work again this week with enough powder-keg issues on hand to keep the session going well into the summer.
The Administration hoped that major activity would be confined to the routine ap¬ propriations, national defense and extension of the President’s trade treaty power.
That would mean a short session and, possibly, fewer headaches for the Democrats during the coming campaign.
There is an increasingly loud demand, however, for amendment of the Wagner Act and the Wage and Hour Act. There also is pressure for amending the social security, relief, farm and monetary programs. In all these issues are the makings for prolonged squabbling.
There was no indication, at the session’s opening, that anyone intended to push any major broadcasting legislation. Observers felt that the radio bills having the best chance of obtaining serious consideration were those which would forbid beer and liquor advertising.
Nevertheless, the long list of radio bills now pending will bear careful watching — which the NAB will do.
Starting his second trip in behalf of Broadcast Music, Inc., Neville Miller met this week with broadcasters in New Orleans and Dallas. Next week he will have meetings in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland. All Pacific Coast broadcasters, regardless of NAB membership, should attend. Sydney Kaye represented Broadcast Music at a dis¬ trict meeting in Camden, N. J., yesterday.
A complete list of the pending radio bills in Congress is published elsewhere in the Reports.
A. F. of M.
IRNA negotiations with the American Federation of Musicians have resulted in the following letter from President Weber to his locals:
“Your local is hereby advised not to enter into negotiations with a broad¬ caster to furnish the services of musicians at the expiration of the present na¬ tional agreement.
“Your local however may permit its members for the present to work for broadcasters without an agreement.
“This order is binding upon your local pending further advice from the Federation.’’
(Signed) JOE MILLER
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