POWER, REUTHER HAIL FILM CO-OP

Power, Reuther Hail Film Co-Op A host of film, labor and community leaders, including Tyrone Power and Victor Reuther, have rallied to the support of the National Film Cooperative plan...

...Since we apparently don't know the score anyway, there's no point trying to stop the music...
...The motion picture is the most powerful medium of expression today and the forces of democracy should make full use of it in their fight against totalitarianism...
...I must certainly agree with the purpose of this plan and promise you any support that is in my power to give...
...Among the organizations that have already pledged funds for the establishment of the Film Co-op are the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, AFL...
...and the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers, AFL...
...The Russian's capacity to withstand pain is explained by Prokoiiefft admission for the second time in a year that his music is tainted by bourgeois formalism...
...He obviously envelops robustness by beating his breasts so long and so often...
...Only when the withdrawals are complete unll the Koreans beacount with them, even temporarily...
...Eft The plan also received favorsaN comment from two experts at a Ithn Leader-sponsored radio forum on'M 8, in which Mr...
...National Cooperatives, Inc...
...the Jewish Labor Committee...
...Several educators commented favorably on the plan...
...It should ame give realX aistanee to those colleges end mun» . slftes which sponsor various types « union training programs...
...Our reply to Russian overtures is that we are not willing to settle for a song...
...the International Alliance of Hotel and Restaurant Workers, AFL...
...A coordinating body such as the National Film Co-operative is the ideal agent tax stimulating »r*eduction and distribution of labor-related films...
...Pen Points Britons think Truman has no basis 'whatsoever in fact for his assertion that some Russian leaders are sanxiour for peace...
...In developing a 'public service' program through cooperation in film production and circulation, we shall probably be doing the greater service to our own organisations...
...Screen star Tyrone Power endorsed the film co-op in this statement: I read the plan for a National Film Co-operative with interest and believe it is an idea worth developing...
...the Georgia Workers Education Service...
...proposed establishment of a National Film Co-op to combine public service movie-making and distribution ventures by labor unions, fraternal organizations, and enducational groups...
...Delson . participate These were Robert Cooper, technljj consultant for the widely-heraldat documentary, "The Quiet One," tni Joseph Wohlhandler, of the public relations division of United Artiste...
...Morris I. Chapman...
...the Textile Workers Union of America, CIO...
...Our labor and liberal groups nave yet to take full advantage of See film medium tn accord with our responsibility to keep the general public socially and economically informed...
...I think your group has worked out a very comprehensive and remarkably workable plan for a National Film Co-op...
...Among the-other interesting comments was this one by famous screen writer Art Arthur...
...The article, entitled "The Movies: Public Service or Hollywood Monopoly...
...There is hope the Allies will exact a Stiff price in exchange for lifting their counter-blockade of the Soviet tone...
...director of education for the United Automobile Workers of America, CIO, declared: "I cannot fully express the urgency and need for more cooperation among our liberal groups...
...Power, Reuther Hail Film Co-Op A host of film, labor and community leaders, including Tyrone Power and Victor Reuther, have rallied to the support of the National Film Cooperative plan advanced in a New Leader article by Robert Delson and Albert Hemsing on May 28...
...the AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'rith...
...Like shrewd ¦traders, they are discounting his statement liberally...
...Among them was Charles A. Meyers, 'Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at MaseaehejsZ Institute of Technology, who raid: W 'The proposed National film M Operative is certamly an organiw Meat weigh would Sanest the ateeS and osncer training programs of bats, unions...
...We frequently underestimate the importance of giving our own members the broad labor-related picture of the purpose und function of our individual organisation...
...The Soviet can probably justify Its export of Shostakovilch's music, declared decadent, to the US...
...The whole 'thing reflects painstaking oare...
...Victor O. ReuHter...
...The film medium needs the leadership of Labor for the production and circulation of significant films...
...South Korea is skeptical of Russian claims of thorough troop evacuation...
...thorough research and honest recognition of the facts—a rare combination...
...the American Newspaper Guild, CIO...

Vol. 32 • June 1949 • No. 25


 
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