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there were echoes of old differences which the two associations seemed to have had. Captain Sparks was heard to remark, "This is really a divorce trial. " The analogy was completed by Mr. Geddes, who said, "RMA wants a divorce from NEMA and they will not give it to us. "
Captain Sparks said that RMA membership numbers 110 companies and there are approximately 100 or more (mostly small) non-member concerns. By volume of sales the membership of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association represents at least eighty to eighty-five per cent or more of domestic manufacturers of various radio and television products. Annual sales volume (retail value) of the industry's products in 1933 were over $200,000,000. Be¬ tween 40,000 and 50,000 persons are now employed in the industry.
The Jackson radio manufacturer took issue with NEMA by declaring that several years ago the organization voluntarily and entirely withdrew from the radio industry and has carried on no radio activities or services to members until it secured authority under the Code.
"The Radio Division of the NEMA was formally abolished about four or five years ago after negotiations between committees of NEMA and RMA", Captain Sparks continued. "Its original Radio Division never had more than twenty-five or thirty members as against a peak of 340 members in the RMA during the prosperous era of a few years ago. The only service ever instituted and not completed by the Radio Division of NEMA was partial work on radio standards, an unsuccessful attempt to secure industry statistics and an unsuccessful attempt to hold radio trade show exhibitions. The existence of the Radio Division was such a point of conflict between NEMA and RIM that in the interest of harmony between the electrical and radio industries and after negotiations of the joint committees, the NEMA. Board of Governors abolished the NEMA. Radio Division and entirely withdrew NEMA. from all interests or activities in the radio industry, since left entirely to the jurisdiction and service of the RIM. "
"We cannot now be said to be a self-governing industry because the Code Authority of the Electrical Manufacturing industry io the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association upon wdiose board the radio industry has no representatives nor do we have any voice in our own destination, nor vote in connec¬ tion with any Code matters or its administration, the final author¬ ity resting with an Association with which we have no problems in common, nor would it be possible for the radio industry when combined with such large and diverse products as represented in the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association, to be any more than a small minority with no final authority in the deter¬ mination of its o wn self-government. We would be but one of many (approximately 160) sections and groups."
Captain Sparks said that of 460 Codes, less than 30 were under 40 hours, yet the radio industry has to compete with this condition.
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