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11/23/43
DAIRYMEN CLAIM N3C STRONO-ARIffiD THEM WITH CIO PROGRAM
An investigation by Congress or the Federal Comraunicatione Commission, preferably the former, will be sougiit by the American Dairy Association for their allegedly being thrown off the air at Chicago last Sunday night to favor the CIO.
Owen M. Richards, Manager of the Association, said the farm program was suddenly cancelled to allow R. J. Thomas, Presi¬ dent of the CIO United Automobile Workers, to deliver an address which was not "in keeping with the farmer’s viewpoint".
A statement in New York from Frank Muller, Vice-President and General Itianager, said that Mr. Thomas made a request Friday for fifteen minutes of broadcast time on Saturday or Sunday,
"Thomas did not ask for any specific period", the state¬ ment added. "Thomas had appeared before the Senate Interstate Com¬ merce Committee last week and complained that labor wasn’t being Heard on the air even though his union has a regularly scheduled broadcast on the same network. He was granted permission for the special broadcast. "
Mr. Mullen said the network cnose to cancel the commercial broadcast rather than the Chicago Round Table program, a popular sustaining program. He denied that there had been any Government coercion to force the network to give Mr. Thomas the period used,
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SENATORS CONSIDER NEWS LABELLING
Subjects ranging all the way from the propriety of King Carol's broadcast which was to have been broadcast from Mexico tonight (Tuesday) but which was cancelled this (Tuesday) afternoon, to suggestions that news broadcasts be labelled so that listeners could know which was news and which was the opinion of commentators, were presented to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which it is expected will soon streamline the present 16-year old radio law.
The kick about King Carol came from Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York, who demanded a Congressional investigation, declaring he was "amazed that the Columbia Broadcasting System is willing to lend its facilities to this enemy alien who was denied admission to the United States,"
CBS, however, met this situation by inviting Dr. Louis Bozin, a leader of the anti-ca-rol sentiment in the United States, io speak on the same program which, of course, is also cancelled, Carol was to have appeared on the "Report to a Nation" but with the rise of controversy over the proposed broadcast, the argument centering around the question of Carol's political views, CBS
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