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Helnl Radio News Service
12/19/45
The United Kingdom Government hae approved a plan for the change-over of the radio industry's production from war to peace equipment, according to a report received by the U. S. Department of Commerce. It was anticipated that new sets would be available this Fall, but that they would be in a limited supply until early 1946. The new sets were expected to be similar to prewar models but con¬ siderably higher in price. The bulk of the new production was ex¬ pected to be in the price range of L15 ($60 United States currency) or under, exclusive of purchase tax.
RCA Victor has granted a general Increase in the rates of salaried employees which sets a new minimum and raises by 10# the earnings of the majority of salaried workers. The increases, effect¬ ive December 15, apply to all RCA Victor salaried employees to whom such increases could be granted without wage negotiations, according to the announcement. For all such employees the new structure establishes a minimum semi-monthly rate of $50 and grants a 10# in¬ crease to those now earning up to and including $578 per month.
"The new policy will benefit the great majority of salar¬ ied employees of RCA Victor", Mr. Folsom stated. "Designed specifi¬ cally to raise the income of workers earning up to $4,500 per annum, the new rates are being put into effect by RCA Victor in considera¬ tion of current economic conditions, "
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The new Farnsworth 1946 velvet action Type P-50 Automatic Record Changer employs the use of three shelves, instead of the usual one or two shelves, which reduces to the minimum chipping and enlarging the center hole of the record, according to E. S. Needier, Manager of the Special Products Sales Division of the Farnsworth Television & Radio Corporation.
H. R. Ekins, news commentator of Radio Station WSYR, in Syracuse, said he had received threats of bodily harm unless he stops or moderates his criticism of participants in what he terms, "industrial strife".
Mr. Ekins, who was expelled from Italy in 1939 by the Italian government for his writings as a United Press bureau manager, said he has received both letters and telephone calls threatening himself, his wife and their 4-year -old son. Mr. Ekins asserted he had not criticized either labor or management unfairly, nor had he taken sides.
British radio problems were discussed by Richard W. Cotton, Vice Chairman of the British ^arts Manufacturers’ Federation at a meeting of the RMA Export Committee meeting in New York. He stated that the official British production quotas for oneyear from next June were one million sets, 400,000 for export, and 600,000 for the home markets.
Carl J. Hollatz, General Manager of the Radio Receiving Tube Division of Raytheon Manufacturing Co. has announced the appoint¬ ment of L. R. O’Brien as General Sales Manager of the Division, He was Director of Sales for the Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp Corp. at Owens¬ boro, Kentucky,
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