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BROADCASTERS PLEDGE SELVES TO RENEW COMPOSERS' WARFARE
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. , October 00 Concluding what was probably the most militant session ever held by the National Association of Broadcasters, practically every man at the meeting either pledged his stationer promised to urge his Directors to contribute 10 percent of what is paid the American Society of Composers to a war chest to fight the Society to a finish. There wasn't a dissenting voice.
Isaac D. Levy, of Philadelphia, made a midnight appeal to the tired delegates which doubtless will be long remembered by those who heard it. The feeling became so intense against the Composers as the Broadcasters steamed up that Oswald F. Schuette, while speaking, hearing some sort of disturbance in the next room, said, "I hope that is Mills listening!" This referred to E. C.
Mills, General Manager of the American Society of Composers.
Mr. Levy declared time and again that he was certain Mr. Mills had a personal representative "planted" in the meeting and repeatedly addressed his remarks to this man, if any such were present. The Composers were frequently referred to as racketeers.
In fact, Mr. Schuette said he had lodged a recent complaint against them in the newly organized Racketeering Division of the Department of Justice "where they handle bombers and kidnappers".
This complaint was one from the West Coast where, Mr. Schuette alleged, the American Society not only sent a notice to the broadcasting station that they would sue them if they didn't take out a license, but also sent warnings to the station's adver¬ tisers that they also would be prosecuted. Schuette said he had likewise laid this before the Federal Trade Commission as well as the Governor of the State.
"Instead of calling it the American Composers' Society", Mr. Levy shouted, "they ought to call it the ‘Mills, Buck and Burkan Society’". This sally, which included Gene Buck, President of the ASCAP, and its counsel, Nathan Burkan, brought down the house.
"Mills gets $>100,000 a year", Mr. Levy continued, "while Irving Berlin, the country's greatest popular song writer, gets but $4,300. Berlin told me that himself and he is very sore about
it.
"When I first talked with Mills, I asked him, 'Regardless of any plan, are the Broadcasters going to pay more or less what¬ ever way it works out?' 'Whatever plan you are going to pay more', Mills asserted. 'If you are paying "X" dollars now, you will pay "Y" more dollars later'. I understood it after he had illustrated it", Mr. Levy said, amid laughter.
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