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7/26/44
Of record turners, because transcriptions are recorded, A substantial part, or the biggest revenue comes from announce¬ ments, and if a station was all live, it would still need a record turner to put on these announcements between prograjns.
"•Now, most programs run fifteen minutes, a lot a half hour, and some as much as an hour or two hours, but generally speaking, the smallest unit if a live program is fifteen min¬ utes,
"•if an announcement was inserted at every possible op¬ portunity, between all programs, the record turner would actually work one-half minute, because that is all the time there is between programs, to put this announcement on every fifteen minutes, so, in the course of an hour, he would actually work two minutes. In the course of a five hour day, he would work ten. In the course of a five day week he would work fifty minutes, and we cannot conceivably, at least with¬ out the persuasion of this Board, tJirough an order, enter into a setup where we are putting on men who may work as little as fifty minutes a week, and have nothing else to do, ’ ”
"At the present time the cost of musicians to a small station like WJJD represents 8^ of its gross receipts. The e^enditures of other secondary stations for musicians as compared with their gross receipts range from 2,7^ to 7,8^. On the other hand, the major network systems^ cost of musicians is only 2,3^ of the receipts derived from their sales of time alone, exclusive of charges made for talent, * * *
"If some of the larger motion picture studios, MGM,
Warner Bros and Fox, for instance, are only required to employ 35 men based upon their gross income, it would appear that a station like WJJD should at the most be required to employ one musician. Certainly MCM*8 gross income is, unfortunately, more than 35 times that of WJJD, "
"Evidence Introduced by Station WJJD shows that their pre¬ sent employees are receiving abnormally high wages for the amount of time they are actually working. The average compensation is in ex~ cess of $3,00 per hour. We therefore do not have a case of a labor¬ er who is being ground under the heel of a hard, cruel employer. The evidence shows that of the eleven employees, only two of them worked the full 25 hours per week established under the contract as the regular work week. Of the others, they did not work more than 6 to 15 hours of the 25, The work consisted of live programs, record turning and rehearsals. The average compensation per hour of work ranged from $3 to $7,50 an hour. The Union, however, was not satis¬ fied with this. The station was obligated, under its contract with the Union, to employ at least ten musicians. They, however, could play live programs, turn records, rehearse, and do program work, provided they did not work in excess of 25 hours of any week and if they did, they would be entitled to overtime,
"The establishment of a quota system is unique and unusual in the record of Americjan industry. It means that the employer must employ a given number of people as demanded by the Union whether he
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