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72 THE BILLBOARD OCTOBER 28, 1016. VAUDEVILLE MANAGERS ARE NOT AGAINST ORGANIZE D LABOR A statement is being circulated broadcast throughout the country by the White Rats that vaudeville managers are against organized labor. As to the truthfulness of that statement, there is no one better qual- ified to answer than the members of the different unions connected with the theatres. The friendly relations which exist between the Vaudeville Managers and the National Vaudeville Artists' Association conclusively prove that we not only approve of the right kind of organization among the artists, but that we are willing to support same. That the artist has finally awakened to the fact that the Vaudeville Managers* Protective Association mean business when they state that they will not engage any artist who is a member of the White Rats Is evidenced by the hundreds of letters received by the artists' representatives and our- selves, In which the artists state that they are not members of the White Rats and that they have automatically resigned from same by not paying their dues, which were due October 1st. The White Rats are endeavoring to make you believe that the Vaude- ville Managers' Protective Association la simply a dummy, or another name for the United Booking Offices and the Western Vaudeville Managers* Asso- ciation. For your Information the following booking agencies and circuits, and their clients, are also members, and in most cases officers, of the Vaude- ville Managers' Protective Association: The Pantages Circuit, Orpheum Circuit, Marcus Loew Circuit, Miles Circuit, Gus Sun Circuit, B. S. Moss Circuit, Nlion-Nlrdllnger Circuit, Felber & Shea Circuit, Columbia Burlesque Circuit, Wm. Fox Circuit, Inter- state Circuit, Jones, Llnlck & Schaefer Circuit and Rlngllng Bros.' Circus Enterprises. One. again, we desire to state that we have absolute knowledge as to who are and who are not White Rata. VAUDEVILLE MANAGERS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.