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NAB Board fo Receive
Directive on Coping
With Petrillo Moves
fty the Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Sept. 19.
—A membership directive to map
strategy for coping with the latest
moves by James C. Petrillo comes
before the Board of Directors of the
National Association of Broadcasters
today.
The board's directive is contained
in a resolution which says that
officials of Mr. Petrillo's AFL Amer
ican Federation of Musicians have
indicated that musicians might not
be permitted to make transcriptions
and recordings or appear on network
programs after present contracts
expire.
Contracts for recordings and
transcriptions expire December 31
and contracts with the networks
run out a month later.
Resolution Adopted Yesterday.
The resolution, adopted late yes
terday at the close of the 25th an
nual NAB convention, says that if
the union does take such action,
the country’s broadcasters “are
firmly resolved to take all neces
sary and proper steps to continue
and extend their service to the pub
lic.” There was no explanation of
what such steps might be.
The NAB also urged operators of
both standard and frequency modu
lation to “insist upon their right”
under the Taft-Hartley and Lea Acts
to duplicate music programs over
both types of stations. Mr. Petrillo
has refused to permit duplication
of live music programs over stand
ard and FM stations.
The Frequency Modulation Associ
ation’s directors also set up a spe
cial committee to take part in the
overall strategy. The FM directors
condemned the musician union's ban
on further appearances of its
members on FM network broadcasts.
The ban was invoked against the
new continental network of 27 FM
stations.
Speed-up on Code Urged.
The NAB directors at their meet
ing today received a request from
the membership to speed considera
tion of objections raised to the draft
of a proposed radio code so that
necessary revisions can be made and
the code put into effect. The pro
posed code is aimed at preventing
excessive commercial anouncements
and setting higher standards of
taste for radio.
During uie convention a numoer
of station officials criticized the
phrasing of some sections of the
draft of the proposed code submit
ted to them, contending the provi
sions would work hardships on their
operations. Authority to adopt the
code rests with the board. However,
Justin Miller, president of NAB and
chairman of the board, has indi
cated that final action on the code
is uphkely today.
Taft
• Continued From First Page.)
eliminate violent depressions but
apparently only at a cost of limited
production in which the average
standard of living is lower than the
average under our system.
: “Nevertheless I have felt that,
unless under our system we can pre
vent the kind of hardship and suf
fering we saw in the 30s, the people
might take the position that, re
gardless of ultimate benefits, they
would try some system which did
not have to reach its goal through
periods of heavy unemployment.”
Mr. Taft said that one of the most
difficult and important problems is
the maintenance of farm prices in
proper relation with the price of
manufactured goods.
“We now have a committee,” he
said, "working on a program to
succeed the present program of
guaranteed prices (of farm products)
which comes to an end December
31, 1948.”
Summarizes Discussion.
Summarizing his discussion of the
long range economic program, Sena
tor Taft said:
"We are completely opposed to
the OPA theory which was, in effect,
dominated by the CIO-PAC philos
ophy of a detailed and unfriendly
control of the individual business
man and the individual farmer.
"The Republican Party has al
ways stood for a higher standard
of living. In my opinion, no work
man has ever been paid too much
for a day's work well done, but
there is a limit to the total produc
tive capacity of the country and
therefore to his share of goods made
available. We cannot divide up
more than we make. The great
problem is to tune up our economic
machine and increase production.
That can only be done by more
productivity per man.
"We recognize that the Govern
ment must play a part in helping to
make our system work, but we are
strongly opposed to measures which
eliminate the freedom of enterprise,
because we believe it has made the
United States the greatest and most
powerful Nation in the world and
a Nation which is the envy of the
entire world.”
Trains Guns on Truman.
Training his guns on President
Ttuman, Senator Taft gave a de
tailed argument and list of events
from the close of the war in an
effort to fix on the Democratic
President responsibility for high
prices.
He charged that President Tru
man had been responsible for the
speed with which price and wage
controls had been lifted. He charged
that President Truman had en
couraged wage' increases while he
(Truman) insisted they could be
granted without forcing increases
in prices.
••v nvvuuvu **iv a ivoiucut yJi ttVJU —
Ing to the inflationary spiral by
vetoing the tax reduction bills
passed by the Republicans and by
resisting Government economv and
insisting upon continued high ex
penditures.
“The left wingers,” said Mr. Taft,
“are trying to put the burden of
these (high) prices on the Repub
licans. Who has been in control
of this Government anyway for the
last 16 years?
"High prices today are no sudden
emergency. They are the inevitable
result of the Roosevelt-Truman
policies since the beginning of the
war.”
The basic difficulty, Mr. Taft said,
was the tremendous borrowing of
;the war period following the re
peated deficits’ of the 30s.
“Fiftv billion dollars a year of
additional purchasing power was
created by the Government,” he
continued, "and much of this is now
doming into the market to force
•prices up.”
During the war, he said, there was
price control and a less vigorous
control of wages. By the end of the
war, wages were up considerably
more than prices, and the increased
costs produced by higher wages re
1 suited in many products being en
' tirely eliminated from the market
“President Truman ended pric*
control too rapidly.” Senator Taft
said, "tyow he is blaming the Re
publicans for the end of the OPA,
but in the first place it was a Demo
crat Congress which cflhsidered all
questions relating to the extension
of OPA and passed the OPA bills.
• And it was President Truman who
’ vetoed the first bill and canceled all
_ price control under the second.”
It was Senator Taft whom the
President singled out for special con
demnation in his message vetoing
j the first of these bills.
Urged Gradual Easing.
Senator Taft told his audience he
; had wanted a very gradual reiaSa
t tion of these controls.
j uctauoo 1110 uiou v/* ii uni
■ tained the simple provision that in
s creased costs must be reflected in
increased prices,” Senator Taft
• continued, “the President vetoed the
L bill, thus removing all controls for
5 a period of six weeks. That prac
tically wrecked the possibility of
further scientific control.”
Senator Taft said he co-operated
" with Democratic Leader Barkley In
" enacting a second OPA extension
' law, but because of the six-week
’! hiatus, it had been impossible to
2 get as complete a control over agri
cultural products as did the first
2 bill. The President's own board
' then decontroled grain and dairy
‘ products, and the President himself
canceled meat control, the Senator
f j pointed out. The President had full
• power to continue control over man
ufactured products until June 30,
> i providing he recognized increased
r costs, Senator Taft said. But the
J President voluntarily abandoned
i this control after the November
■. elections last year “so that, if man
ufacturers were making excessive
■ ■profits in 1946 and 1947, it was not
• due to congressional action, Sen
ator Taft insisted.
s “I quite realize the reasons for the
i President's action in removing all
s meat controls about the time of the
1946 election,” the Senator said. “He
. was advised by every Democrat poli
[ tician that controls affecting the
supply of commodities had become
so unpopular that, unless he re
moved them, there would be an
| overwhelming Democrat defeat in
' November. He did not act soon
!j enough.”
Bungled on Housing.
I Senator Taft charged that the
■ President had bungled, too, the
; problems of housing when he aban
> doned the Wyatt program.
'I He said the administration had
insisted that huge dollar funds be
• made available to foreign nations
! and that this action had played its
: part in forcing prices up in this
■ country. Senator Taft complained
• these loans had been made with
■ practically no control over the
: purposes for which the money was
. to be spent. The result was a tre
[ mendously abnormal export trade
■ from this country. .
• He said that, while Congress had
given the President control over ex
ports, “it has practically not been
exercised.” Advancing his proposal
that a new stabilization of wages
and prices be attempted, Senator
Taft said:
' “I believe that we may as well
1 recognize that prices are perma
; nently up above prewar prices.
! Since both wages and prices have
risen, wages on the whole more
, than prices, we had better work
toward a stabilization of wages and
i prices at some new levels, perhaps
: 50 or 60 per cent over 1939. Increase
in supply and some decrease in
abnormal demand should bring
prices back to that level from the
I present level of 80 to 100 per cent
increase.
,, “The excess increase in wages
i over 50 or 60 per cent can probably
i be compensated in numerous indus
■ tries by an increase in productivity.
If we set the 50 or 60 per cent as
, the goal, we should then encourage
J the increase of all subnormal wages
f and salaries to that point compared
| to prewar.
“If prewar wages in any industry
or profession were subnormal, the
increase might well be larger.
"In this connection, I think that
the minimum wage should be in
creased frc.i 40 to at least 60 cents.
I do not beVve that such increases
in subnormal % /ages or increases to
white collar groups or to the ranks
of unorganized labor will tend to
increase prices, but it will ease the
burden of high prices for millions.
We should insist upon the vital ne
cessity of increasing the productivity
of workmen by better machinery,
better methods and better co-opera
tion.”
At the outset of his address. Sena
tor Taft paid high tribute to Gov.
Warren cf California.
“Gov. Warren,” he said” com
mands the respect of the entire
East because of the high character
of the State government and his
own forward-looking views.” Sena
tor Taft also commended Senator
Knowland of California, whom Gov.
Warren first appointed to the Sen
ate and then helped elect.
James Ray Hoagland Dies,
Former Chief of WAA Unit
James Ray Hoagland, 46, former
chief of the non-ferrous division
of the War Assets Administration,
died yesterday in Gallinger Hospital
after a brief illness.
He was born in Philadelphia and
was graduated from Norwich Uni
versity. For 21 years he was em
ployed by the Western Electric Co.
in Chicago and New York before he
came to Washington in 1942 to be
technical adivser of the War Pro
duction Board salvage division.
When the WPB closed Mr. Hoag
land joined WAA. He had resigned
in June because of por health. His
home was at 3839 Rodman street
N.W.
Mr. Hoagland is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Bertha V. Hoagland:
a daughter. Miss Julia S. Hoag
land, and one son, James, jr., all
of the Rodman street address.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Birch's funer
al home, 3034 M street N.W. Burial
services will be private.
Mayor Hall Resigns
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Sept. 19
ffl*).—Channing M. Hall, Mayor of
Williamsburg since 1934 and a mem
ber of the city council for nearly 30
years, has resigned effective October
11. Mr. Hall said he was following
the repeated advice of his physician
that he reduce his duties and re
sign from the council.
National Guard Needs
Universal Training,
Gen. McLain Declares
ly *h» Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 19.—
The National Guard must have
more than “lip-service and good
wishes’’ to carry out its mission of
being prepared to take the field at
all times, Lt. Gen. Raymond E.
McLain of the War Department
special staff asserted today.
"It is obvious the National Guard
cannot fulfill its training mission
under a system which provides less
than 200 hours a year of armory
and summer-camp training,” Gen.
McLain said in an addres prepared
for the National Guard Association’s
69th annual conference here.
Mass Army Need Stressed.
"Given recruits who have had
1,000 hours of basic training, it can
proceed with refresher training and
higher team training, and can be
expected to reach a degree of train
ing efficiently which will enable it
to perform its assigned D-day mis
sion.
“Universal military training will
provide the Guard with this bas
ically trained manpower,” the
general stated.
He criticized “those who decry the
need for training mass armies.”
“The majority of them glibly talk
of small, highly trained striking
forces and the atom bomb,” Gen.
McLain said, adding:
“The atom bomb is a weapon of
great power, but you don’t use a
sledge hammer to drive a nail. Like
all powerful things, the bomb has
limited uses.”
Bricker Speaks of Bomb.
Senator Bricker, Republican, of
Ohio drew cheers last night by
declaring that the United States
should not part “with one iota" of
data about the atom bomb so long
as expansionist forces are "on the
loose” in the world.
He asserted, however, that the
United States never would use the
bomb aggressively.
Gen. Jacob L. Devers, command
ing general of the Army Ground
Forces, said yesterday that th: moat
important point in this country's
security program must be the de
velopment of a Nation that is
economically and socially strong.
He rated full production, full em
ployment, industrial peace, the
avoidance of periodic economic!
crises, and a high level of education 1
as vital for any program to keep
the United States out of war.
Du-Drop-Inn Wins License
The Montgomery County Liquor
Control Board yesterday granted a
class D on-sale beer and wine
license to William Thomas Duvall,
trading as Du-Drop-Inn, Emery
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