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12/27/10;
STRIKE THREAT PARLEYS CONTINUE; NETS READY FOR ANYTHING
Negotiations were resumed immediately after Christmas and are now continuing in the hope of preventing the threatened strike against the NBC and Blue Networks.
The threat of the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians (NABET) that if the chains do not allow NABET to re¬ tain control of plotter turning it v/ill strike ¥\rithin 72 hours still stands as does the Petrillo threat that wildcat strikes will be called if his contract to take over the plotter turning is not enforced©
The National Association of Broadcasters are likewise participating in the parleys. Although there are reports that the negotiations are progressing favorably it is known that the network executives have made every preparation for a strike in case one is called.
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JUDGE 0fVIN L. DAVIS AGAIN HEADS TRADE COIvnvIISSION
Ewin La Davis, who had a prominent part in writing the rz'lginal Radio Act and is well known to the broadcasting industry, will become Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission for the third time January !« The che.lrmanship rotates annually among five members, not more than three of whom may belong to the same political party. Judge Davis served previously as chairman in 1955 1940*
Judge Davis was a member of Congress from Tennessee from 1918 to 1935* At the time the radio act was being framed he was serving on the Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee which passes on all radio legislation in the House. Judge Davis was so outspoken and such a defender of independent interests that one of the larger alleged monopolistic groups was credited by some with bringing about his defeat for re-election.
nil?. Davis, a brother of the late Norman Davis, Chairman of the American Red Cross, after his retirement from Congress, was appointed to the Trade Coimnission in 1935 sind re¬
appointed in 1939* A Democrat, he was a judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of his home State from I9IO to I918.
Born in Bedford County in I876, he attended Webb School and Vanderbilt University and was graduated from the law school of Columbian University, now George V'fashington University, in l899*
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