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12/15/42
”1 think we are making some progress of the manpower situation. Our staffs have been in conference with the staff of the Manpower Commission during the past few days and particularly over the weekend, and we feel assured that the Manpower Commission wi 11 review the entire list of requirements of the industry, and when I speak of the requirements I do not think that we ought to be unduly concerned over some reports that only news and information service and those devoted to that particular service will be deem¬ ed essential. Of course everybody knows that our broadcasting structure rests upon the foundation of commercial broadcasting and broadcast stations cannot exist for the isolated purpose of news and information unless they be subsidized broadly. Of course there is always the further factor that audiences must be built up and sustained.
"Without continuing the service and without attractive service, including entertainment, the audience will not be there. Audiences cannot be turned on and off like a spigot. I am sure it will be very obvious to all of us who are concerned with the continuity, stability and security of the broadcasting industry tnat all positions essential to those requirements will be recog¬ nized. ”
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ALABAMA GOVERNOR ASSAILS FAIR EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE
When Gov. Frank M, Dixon, of Alabama, suggested the form¬ ation of a Southern Democratic party because the New Deal was "dynamiting the social structure of the South", he assailed the President’s Fair Employment Committee, which recently ruled that broadcasting companies and radio stations were defense industries and therefore within the meaning of the Executive Order that there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries because of race, creed or color.
"The actions of the Fair Employment Committee indicate". Governor Dixon declared, "that, however fervently the claim may be made that the purpose was not to interfere with the social struc¬ ture of the South, in practical effect the abolition of segrega¬ tion was exactly the result to be achieved by the majority of the Committee. "
In connection with the President’s Employment Committee recently ordering the Capital Transit Company, operating the street cars and busses of Washington to hire negroes for bus and car operators, Major Kelly, Washington Chief of Police was quoted as saying: "That order has the makings of a first class race riot in
the Capital. "
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