The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-05

A pamphlet study of James Caesar Petrillo's ban against electrical transcriptions and other types of musical recordings, published and distributed yesterday by the National Association of Broadcasters, points out that:
 1. Earnings of union musicians for services in radio broadcaSting have increased stadily with the growth 0f radio until today they exceed an estimated SIS, 100000 year. Union musicians earn millions of dollars additional in making recordings Cat minimum scale of $10 per hour) and electrical transcriptions Cat a minimum scale of SIS per hour).
 ?. Approximately 225 of the com- munities in which broadcasting sta- tions are located do not have enough musicians to form a local of the American Federation of Musicians.
 3. More than onehaf of the mem- bership of the American Federation of Musicians consists of non-pro- fessionals who are not entirely de- pendent on music for livelihood.
 4. Members of the American Fed eration of Musicians are engaged in more than 150 other occupations, trades, business and professions; and for them music is really only pin money sideline.
 5. More than one-half of the broadcasting stations of the country are small stations with annual gross income, before deducting salaries and other operating expenses, of less than MT. Petrillos annual salary and othre personal income from his union. More than 45O stations have annual gross receipts of $75,000 or less; and the gross receipts of 137 of them are $15,000 or less. Two hundred radio stations actually lose money, while the average annual net profit, even before taxes, of the stations whose total receipts are less than $75,00 0is approximately $1 GOO per station. If these stations were forced to hire even few musicians for the IS or more hours that they are on the air, musicians salaries would consume more than these stations gross receipts from all sources, and they would be put out of business.
 6. Undoubtedly there are some un- employed musicians, especially in the large cities, but the majority of peo- pie about whom MT. Petrillo talks, while they may be unemployed as musicians, are not without gainful employment in other occupations. The c Is For Caesar
 Entitled "The c Is For Caesar, the pamphlet is being widely dis tributed, with the first copy going to Senator D. Worth Clark of Idaho. chairman of the committee of the senate which will investigate the Petrillo ban.
 Tn foreword, Neville Miller. pres ident of the National Association ot Broadcasters. states that "the recent orders and acts of James Caesar Pe- trillo have aroused widespread pub lie interest because they seem to De directed against the art of music It. self. These aggressions a1ect GU Americans who listen to inusic, ai well as ali American industries which depend upon mule. They constitute Q threat to wartime morale and com- munieatlons." tra D..
 Declaring that "the record and the transcription are part and paE' eel Of Thomas Ave Edlsoil's inveil' ton Of the photograph, which is Al basic end important to muaic as thl printing press is to literature" tht namphlet asserts that "Mr. Pasrllit hes no more legitimate claim esalnal lhese inventions than the hand eopylsts had hgAlnst the printing preSs. tho farm hand against thl harvosleE, tho carriage maker against ihe automobile, RNd kbl weaver against the peNer leoln1, Moreover q asAiAA "eE, fsiktli