Musicmen
Unite
to lay foundation for
strong organization.
LOS ANGELES .-Many of the pre-
viously e xis ting differe nce s between
phonograph operators of Southern Cali-
fornia were forgotten during the course
of an important me e ting held at the
Clark Hotel, January 4, w h e n prominent
musicmen from all ove r this sector
gathered a s a nucleus for the formation
of the California division of the Inter-
national Association of Automa tic Phon-
ograph Owners, whose main headquar-
ters are in Chicago. The California di-
vision will be divided into Locals , and
each region may have its own Loca l
and s elect its own officers, but all Lo-
cals will be branches of the California
Stat e Association.
William Nathans on, who w a s a ssigned
to organize Southern California, in ad-
dressing the gathering gave a full re-
port of how such major cities a s New
York Chicago, Philadelphia and St.
Loui~ have been fully organized and
are , at present, receiving increased re-
venues from phonographs on the basis
of an e stablished minimum scale of
collections : $7 minimum for new models
and 35 % on all money in the cashbox
above that figure to the location; a
$6 minimum on machines a year old,
and 35% on excess to the location; $5
minimum for two-year-old models, and
50 % to the location, and so on.
In order to give REVIEW-readers a
clear picture of what is now transpiring
in the Southern California phonograph
business , there is quoted here a por-
tion of one of Nathanson's letters to
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E. C . Steffens, president of the Inter-
na tional Association, in which he ex-
plains his belief that the new Associ-
ation will be succe ssful:
"I pers onally (Nathanson _ wrote)
have s pent large s um s of mo ney and a
whole lot of my time to organize music
operators in Los Angeles. There w e re
four such attempts made in the pas t,
and the chief reason we w ere not s uc-
cessful heretofore lies in the fa ct that
the strength of a national organization
is required to combat the obstacles in
:he music business. I am therefore
happy to state my conviction that the
pres ent organization we are to promote
will meet with s uccess, and the chief
rea son for thi s s u ccess will be our
affiliation with s uch a national organ-
ization as yours. In other words, if our
Local were not to be conne cted with a
national group, I, for my part, would
never make another attempt to organize
Southe rn California. It is therefore clear
to me that you and your a ssociates in
the International deserve all th e credit
for developing a nucleus that will
LEAD, GUIDE and PROTECT the music
operators' business."
Acting a s chairman of the meeting
was Curley Robinson,· managing direc-
tor of the Associated Operators of Los
Angeles County's organization, who in-
troduced speakers-and him s elf spoke
interestingly and to the point-among
whom were Vance Mape of San Fran-
cis co, Milton Lange of Glendale , Dick
Talbert of Fresno, Joe Richarme of Long
Beach and A. D. O s b orn of Los Angeles.
Attendance of nearly a hundred mu-
sicmen made it a representative gath-
ering, and this meeting was the first of
a s eries that will be held to organize
the entire state of California in an asso-
ciation that will affiliate with the
IAAPO . William Nathanson of Los An-
geles and William Corcoran and Vance
Mape of San Francisco are acting as
organizers for the group . until the a sso-
ciation starts moving under its own
power. Those pre sent at the Los An-
geles meeting were much enthused by
the n e ws that the leading manufactur-
e rs of phonographs have promis ed their
full support and cooperation to mu sic
operators who will affiliat e with good,
organized· a ssociations .
Homer Capehart, Wurlitzer vice-presi-
dent , David C. Rockola, president of
the firm bearing his name, H. T. Roberts,
salesmanager for the J. P. Seeburg
Corp., and E. C. Steffens, president of
the International, s e nt telegrams of
greeting and this same ass urance of
cooperation. The wires of Roberts and
Rockola were read at the gathering,
while those of Capehart and Steffens,
received late·, will be read at the next
regular meeting of musicmen at the
Clark Hotel, here, January 18.
The year 1939, those present felt , has
something good in store for the music
indus try , and they acclaime d a s good
news the probability that at las t the
music business will return lo normal. e
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