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10/20/39
TRADE NOTES
Dr. Alonzo G-. Grace, Commissioner of Education for Connecticut, has accepted membership on the board of consultants of the "American School of the Air", the Columbia Broadcasting System announced this week.
The City of New York took title this week to the radio broadcasting to^-rers of Station MCA on the causeway between Flushing and College Point, Queens, and will alter them immedi¬ ately, to remove the last high aerial obstacle to the runways of the New York municipal Airport at North Beach.
The Poughkeepsie Broadcasting Corp. , Poughkeepsie, N.Y., this week was granted a construction permit by the Federal Com¬ munications Commission for a new station to operate on 1420 kc. with 250 watts power, unlimited time.
Louis Ruppel, Director of CBS Publicity, and Paul W. White, Director of the Public Affairs Department, announced additions to their staffs last week. John Denson, Pat Dolan, and Ted Weber are the new members of the publicity staff, while Robert S. Wood has joined the news division of the Public Affairs Department in an editorial capacity.
The Ne.tional Labor Relations Board has disclosed that Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. has agreed to recognize a G.I.O. union as representative of the 21,500 employees in nine Westinghouse plants. The agreement, praised by Board Chairman J. W. Madden as a time and money saver, was entered into by the company, the Union and the Board on September 9. The settlement was reached on the first day of a Board hearing on C.I.O. charges that Westinghouse had engaged in unfair labor practices. Chair¬ man Madden called it "an instance of clean-cut litigation. "
The complaint was filed by CIO’s United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers' Union.
The National Broadcasting Company, through Max Gordon, general production director for television, and Thomas Hutchin¬ son, television program manager, have appealed to the Actors Equity Association Council for sympathy a.nd understanding in the development of television. Equity recently balked a proposed series of television programs by demanding the equivalent of a full week’s salary for each performer participating in a single television program. The Equity Council agreed to consider next Tuesday Mr Gordon’s proposals regarding v^ages and working condi¬ tions for television performers.
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