We have about 1,350 active members, including some of the most outstanding in their field, but we need all Producing Team members if we are to succeed. If we fail to expand our ranks, the Producing Team may continue to lose individually what collectively they might have been able to protect. 1950 PGA's forerunner, the Screen Producers Guild, founded as an elite social club. Screen Producers Guild amalgamates with Television Producers Guild to become a Collective Bargaining Agency known as the Producers Guild of America. It lasts for 10 years.
Guild activists appeal.
1974 Appellate Court overrules the Superior Court nullifying the PGA contract. Both California and US Supreme Courts decline to review. Subsequently the other companies come aboard. The other companies renege. They never do.