Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1939 June - Page 25
Champs for the second consecutive year in the Tonawanda Industrial League, Wur-
litzer workers prove they can do other things as expertly as they make phonographs.
This champwnship team has lost only two games in two seasons of play. Composed of
former scholastic and semi-pro stars, the group is colorful and brilliant in action. In
business suit, on the left, is Coach Mike Vona; on the right stands Promoter G. E. Diel.
Injunction Denied
in union phono case
picketing
HOUSTON (RC) - On May 11 Dis-
trict Judge Ben F. Wilson denied an in-
junction to stop picketing a local cafe,
and held that the removal of a union
phonograph and the replacement with
a non-union machine was the same as
replacing a union member with a non-
union man. He further ruled that sec-
ondary picketing was legal since a
bona fide labor dispute was involved.
The meeting on May 4 dealt mostly
with outside loud speakers. Police of-
ficials have reported numerous com-
plaints about the speakers, As sociation
officials state, and have asked support
from the organization in suppressing
unnecessary noise. Considerable dis-
cussion followed with the majority of
members apparently favoring complete
elimination of outside speakers. No of-
ficial action was taken.
A prominent operator-member of the
Association was accused of selling a
phonograph to a location, and another
operator, also a member, was charged
with having knowledge of the transac-
tion and witnessing the signature of the
seller. Both men denied the charges
and contended that signatures on the
document were not their own. After a
lengthy and heated discussion the mat-
ter was turned back to the Grievance
Committee.
Walter A. Niemackl resigned as elt-
ecutive secretary. M. M. Simpson was
employed by the Board of Directors to
succeed him.
Music Operators' Association,
Inc. of Houston
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EVERYTHING
YOU WANT
IN AN AUTOMATIC
PHONO NEEDLE
SAMPLE J5c
President-F. S. CLANCY: Vice-President, SAM
AYO: Treasurer-LESTER HEARN: Secretary-
M. M. SIMPSON, 518 Anita Street, Houston,
Texas.
By JOHN G. WRIGHT
May was a quiet month for the Music
Operators' Association of Houston. Two
business meetings, each followed by
lunch and refreshments, were held at
the Milam Building on the ·first and third
Thursdays of the month.
See Your
Distributor
or
D/6,
Write
THE
ELDEEN CO.
176 W.
Wi sconsin
Milwaukee, Wis.
PLAYS
25
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
Operator George W . Wrenn, who em-
ployed only union service man, was
original holder of the spot. A second
firm of operators, who are not connected
with the union and hire no service men
as they do all the work on their routes
themselves, placed one of their ma-
•c hines in the spot, forcing Wrenn's
phonograph out.
Negotiations between location owner
and local union officials failed and pick-
ets were placed around the location.
Location owner, together with the two
operators, sought an injunction against
.Electrical Workers Local 716 in connec-
tion with the picketing.
They sought to prove, among other
things, that secondary picketing was
not legal as no bona fide labor dispute
was involved, because they employed
no help and consequently were not
,g uilty of unfairness to organized labor;
that servicing and operating a phono-
graph was not skilled electrical work;
that a collusion existed between Music
Operators Association, Inc., of Houston
and the local I. B. E. W.
The defense simply proved that when
Wrenn's machine was displaced his
service man, a union member, was de-
prived of a certain amount of his wages;
and that the Music Operators' Associa-
tion was an organization of phonograph
owners and operators in no way con-
nected with the union except that they
had, as a group, agreed to employ only
union service men.
The Association was not concerned
in the case except in its own defense.
e
W . E. SIMMONS
California
Rooms 1401-4-5
Phone GRanite 4148
Nevada
San
Francisco
Office
Hollywood, Calif.
Arizona
1268 Folsom St.
Phone: HE. 7694
1025 North Highland Ave.
FRED FIELDS
3127 Western Ave.
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Seattle, Wash.
R.
Q.
KRAMER
Shirley Savoy Hotel
Denver, Colo.
Western Montana
Eastern Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
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litzer workers prove they can do other things as expertly as they make phonographs.
This champwnship team has lost only two games in two seasons of play. Composed of
former scholastic and semi-pro stars, the group is colorful and brilliant in action. In
business suit, on the left, is Coach Mike Vona; on the right stands Promoter G. E. Diel.
Injunction Denied
in union phono case
picketing
HOUSTON (RC) - On May 11 Dis-
trict Judge Ben F. Wilson denied an in-
junction to stop picketing a local cafe,
and held that the removal of a union
phonograph and the replacement with
a non-union machine was the same as
replacing a union member with a non-
union man. He further ruled that sec-
ondary picketing was legal since a
bona fide labor dispute was involved.
The meeting on May 4 dealt mostly
with outside loud speakers. Police of-
ficials have reported numerous com-
plaints about the speakers, As sociation
officials state, and have asked support
from the organization in suppressing
unnecessary noise. Considerable dis-
cussion followed with the majority of
members apparently favoring complete
elimination of outside speakers. No of-
ficial action was taken.
A prominent operator-member of the
Association was accused of selling a
phonograph to a location, and another
operator, also a member, was charged
with having knowledge of the transac-
tion and witnessing the signature of the
seller. Both men denied the charges
and contended that signatures on the
document were not their own. After a
lengthy and heated discussion the mat-
ter was turned back to the Grievance
Committee.
Walter A. Niemackl resigned as elt-
ecutive secretary. M. M. Simpson was
employed by the Board of Directors to
succeed him.
Music Operators' Association,
Inc. of Houston
e
EVERYTHING
YOU WANT
IN AN AUTOMATIC
PHONO NEEDLE
SAMPLE J5c
President-F. S. CLANCY: Vice-President, SAM
AYO: Treasurer-LESTER HEARN: Secretary-
M. M. SIMPSON, 518 Anita Street, Houston,
Texas.
By JOHN G. WRIGHT
May was a quiet month for the Music
Operators' Association of Houston. Two
business meetings, each followed by
lunch and refreshments, were held at
the Milam Building on the ·first and third
Thursdays of the month.
See Your
Distributor
or
D/6,
Write
THE
ELDEEN CO.
176 W.
Wi sconsin
Milwaukee, Wis.
PLAYS
25
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
Operator George W . Wrenn, who em-
ployed only union service man, was
original holder of the spot. A second
firm of operators, who are not connected
with the union and hire no service men
as they do all the work on their routes
themselves, placed one of their ma-
•c hines in the spot, forcing Wrenn's
phonograph out.
Negotiations between location owner
and local union officials failed and pick-
ets were placed around the location.
Location owner, together with the two
operators, sought an injunction against
.Electrical Workers Local 716 in connec-
tion with the picketing.
They sought to prove, among other
things, that secondary picketing was
not legal as no bona fide labor dispute
was involved, because they employed
no help and consequently were not
,g uilty of unfairness to organized labor;
that servicing and operating a phono-
graph was not skilled electrical work;
that a collusion existed between Music
Operators Association, Inc., of Houston
and the local I. B. E. W.
The defense simply proved that when
Wrenn's machine was displaced his
service man, a union member, was de-
prived of a certain amount of his wages;
and that the Music Operators' Associa-
tion was an organization of phonograph
owners and operators in no way con-
nected with the union except that they
had, as a group, agreed to employ only
union service men.
The Association was not concerned
in the case except in its own defense.
e
W . E. SIMMONS
California
Rooms 1401-4-5
Phone GRanite 4148
Nevada
San
Francisco
Office
Hollywood, Calif.
Arizona
1268 Folsom St.
Phone: HE. 7694
1025 North Highland Ave.
FRED FIELDS
3127 Western Ave.
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Seattle, Wash.
R.
Q.
KRAMER
Shirley Savoy Hotel
Denver, Colo.
Western Montana
Eastern Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
SOLD EXCLUSIVELY TO OPERATORS
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
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