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He ini Radio News Service
6/12/46
RMA HEAD SEES TROUBLES STILL AHEAD FOR SET MANUFACTURERS
Slowdowns are in sight notably because of shortages in copper wiring, condensors and tube bases, R. C. Cosgrove, Presi¬ dent of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association, told the radio manu¬ facturers assembled in Chicago this week.
The tube base supply is largely exhausted, he said, be¬ cause of the long strike at Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The next sixty days will find the tube bottleneck extremely tight, he said.
Radio set production has reached 1,000,000 units a month, almost the level of pre-war production in 1941, Mr. Cosgrove dis¬ closed. About 4,500,000 sets, mostly in smaller models, have been built since V-J Day, and 7,500,000 are expected to be produced in the last six months of 1946. In 1941 a total of 13,000,000 sets was produced.
Mr. Cosgrove held out little hope for early volume pro¬ duction of bigger sets incorporating phonographs and EM because of wood shortages.
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PETRILLO SEEN USING ANTI-PETRILLO LAW AS SPRING-BOARD
An insight into the strategy of James C. Petrlllo, Presi¬ dent of the American Federation of Musicians, is given by Jack Gould, Radio Editor of the New York Times, who covered the recent convention at St. Petersburg, Florida.
Mr. Gould writes:
"If James C. Petrillo has his way the radio industry is scheduled to be hoist by its own petard. With characteristic cun¬ ning, the controversial labor leader has shown no fear of the new anti-Petrillo law which many broadcasters hoped would curb his activities. Instead he has used it as a springboard to launch a spectacular new phase of the campaign which he has had in mind all along to increase many times radio’s annual bill for music.
"Mr. Petrillo' s strategy admittedly is unique in industr¬ ial labor relations but its sheer novelty is one factor which makes it more difficult for the broadcaster, and possibLy Congress, to combat.
"In essence, Mr. Petrillo' s threats to close down the national radio networks and paralyze the recording industry, voiced here last week at the union's annual convention, do not represent a possible 'strike' in the generally accepted sense. Rather they
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