Radio Writers Guild records

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unitid

{"value"=>"21254", "type"=>"local_mss"}

origination

{"value"=>"Radio Writers Guild", "type"=>"corpname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Radio Writers Guild records"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1930-1958", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1930/1958"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"37.5 lin. ft., (90 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}

arrangement

{"value"=>"Chronological"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Register available, includes contents page: iii, 199 p. Was cataloged as 8-MWEZ + n.c. 27,178-27,249A; 27,370-27,374; 27,377</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"THE"}

{"date"=>"05/--/77", "source"=>"Authors League of America, Inc.: Irwin Karp, counsel", "method"=>"Gift", "owner"=>"Authors League of America, Inc.", "value"=>"<p>Gift, Authors League of America, Inc.: Irwin Karp, counsel, 05/--/77</p>"}

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physloc

{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1977-001", "type"=>"local_call"}

repository

{"value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10023."}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The Radio Writers Guild Records consist of correspondence, contracts and minutes for the years 1930 to 1958. The materials regarding the RWG is limited to the Guild as a national organization and to the activities of the Eastern Region. While there are some contracts between the Western Region and their local radio stations, there is little correspondence within the Western Region and almost none within the Mid Region. The membership records of the Western and Mid Regions, in this collection, only reflect transfers of Mid Region and Western Region members to and from the Eastern Region.</p><p>The RWG Records include correspondence regarding the Authors League of America, Inc. and the Authors League Bulletin, most of which is unrelated to the Radio Writers Guild.</p>"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>The Radio Writers Guild (RWG) was founded in 1937, as a subordinate organization to the Authors League of America, Inc. Its purpose was to protect the literary rights of staff writers on radio shows and networks, and freelance radio writers. It was a sister guild to the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and the (later and briefly conceived) Television Writers Guild. (The Screen Writers Guild was not under the jurisdiction of the Authors League.).</p><p>The RWG made New York City its headquarters in 1937, with the Guild only overseeing the northeast coast. In 1939, when the Los Angeles radio writers split from the American Federation of Radio Artists, the radio writers created a Western Region for the RWG. Soon after, also in 1939, radio writers within Chicago created the Mid-West Region (or the Mid Region) of the RWG. Since the Guild was now a national union organization, the east coast headquarters became the national headquarters as well as the home base for the newly-created Eastern Region of the Guild. Kenneth Webb was the Guild's first president.</p><p>In 1947, the RWG conceived the Network-Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA) to protect the rights of radio writers from radio networks. In 1949, the Guild created the Agency-MBA to protect the rights of radio writers from agents who worked in the radio field and from program packagers.</p><p>When television was introduced as a new medium for entertainment, there were political differences between the Screen Writers Guild, the Radio Writers Guild, and the television writers and their new guild. The developments made the Authors League restructure the guild system for all writers. As of 1954 on, there have been two writers guilds within the Authors League of America: the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America, Inc. The Writers Guild is split into two divisions: East and West. Due to the restructuring, the Radio Writers Guild ceased to exist in September, 1954.</p>"}

date_inclusive_start

1930

date_inclusive_end

1958

keydate

1930

extent_statement

37.5 linear feet, (90 boxes)

prefercite

{"value"=>"Radio Writers Guild records, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" The Radio Writers Guild Records consist of correspondence, contracts and minutes for the years 1930 to 1958. The materials regarding the RWG is limited to the Guild as a national organization and to the activities of the Eastern Region. While there are some contracts between the Western Region and their local radio stations, there is little correspondence within the Western Region and almost none within the Mid Region. The membership records of the Western and Mid Regions, in this collection, only reflect transfers of Mid Region and Western Region members to and from the Eastern Region.", "generated"=>true}

date_start

1930

date_end

1958

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1. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence
2. National Council: correspondence
3. National Council/National Executive Council: correspondence, etc
4. National Council, Annual Meeting
5. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
6. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence
7. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
8. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
9. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
10. National Council, Annual Meeting
11. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
12. National Council/National Executive Committee, correspondence, etc
13. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
14. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
15. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
16. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
17. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence
18. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence
19. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence
20. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence
21. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence
22. National Council/National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc
23. Form letters to the general membership of RWG
24. National Executive Committee: meeting
25. National Executive Committee: materials and accounts re Los Angeles meeting; includes correspondence
26. National Executive Committee: materials and correspondence for meetings
27. National Council, Annual Meeting: correspondence, etc
28. National Executive Committee: correspondence, etc. for meeting
29. National Executive Committee meeting
30. National Executive Committee, minutes of meetings
31. Unprepared, preliminary, and undated minutes for the National Council
32. National Council: minutes for meeting of
33. National Council: minutes of meetings
34. National Council: minutes of meetings
35. National Executive Committee: resolutions [various dates and no dates]
36. Annual report by Katherine Seymour
37. Annual report by Peter Lyon
38. Classification system for RWG filing system
39. Contest rules for radio in Philadelphia and San Francisco
40. Contest rules for radio in Beverly Hills/Hollywood area
41. Contest rules for radio in Chicago
42. Contest rules for radio in New York City
43. Credits Information letter, sent to members
44. General goals, history, and standards of RWG
45. Correspondence, re Lea Bill
46. nothing catalogued/ outstanding
47. President's reports
48. Radio Annual information [handwritten notes]
49. Staff news writers contract information: general and comparative information
50. Financial Statements
51. Financial Statements
52. Financial Statements
53. Financial Statements
54. Financial Statements
55. Financial Statements
56. Financial Statements
57. Financial Statements
58. Financial Statements
59. Financial Statements
60. Financial Statements
61. Financial Statements
62. Financial statements
63. Amalgamated Bank of New York, bank statements
64. Banker's Trust Company: correspondence, charts, receipts, etc
65. Petty cash information: receipts and vouchers, various dates
66. Postage stamps - financial records, various dates
67. Miscellaneous cost and statements, various dates
68. Social Security time books
69. RWG salaried employees: correspondence, records, etc
70. RWG Blue Cross Coverage: correspondence, records, etc
71. RWG Blue Cross Coverage: contact and payment cards
72. RWG Blue Cross coverage: quarterly bills
73. 24) RWG Blue Cross coverage: quarterly bills
74. 25) RWG Blue Cross coverage: quarterly bills
75. 26) Taxation - U. S.: correspondence, statements, etc
76. Bills and receipts, with correspondence with RWG [110/1]
77. DUES INFORMATION [4/1]
78. RADIO - INSURANCE [13/1]
79. RWG MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION AND CORRESPONDENCE [41/1]
80. EASTERN REGION INDIVIDUAL MEMBER FILES [1459/1]
81. 1) Mid region: membership lists, with correspondence [13/1]
82. 2) Western Region: membership lists [95/1]
83. EASTERN REGION INDIVIDUAL MEMBER FILES IN LEGAL-SIZE FOLDERS AND BOXES [87/1]
84. Radio [12/1]
85. MINIMUM BASIC AGREEMENT [26/1]
86. FREELANCE WRITERS (MBA) [19/1]
87. BALLOTS [23/1]
88. STRIKES AND STRIKE INFORMATION [4/1]
89. STRIKE ASSESSMENTS [2/1]
90. MONEY COMMITTEES [6/1]
91. ENTERTAINMENT/ARRANGEMENT/PARTY COMMITTEES [7/1]
92. MISCELLANEOUS COMMITTEES: A-Q [27/1]
93. MISCELLANEOUS COMMITTEES: R [14/1]
94. MISCELLANEOUS COMMITTEES (continued) : S-Z [9/1]
95. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE [87/1]
96. JOINT ADJUSTMENT BOARD (MBA arbitration and complaints) [8/1]
97. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE (continued) [6/1]
98. MISCELLANEOUS LEGAL-SIZED FOLDERS [61/1]
99. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. BETWEEN RWG AND OTHERS (AGENCIES, PRODUCERS, RADIO SHOWS, ETC.: in letter-sized folders) [415/1]
100. NON-CATALOGUED MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE [12/1]
101. CATALOGUED CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. OF INDIVIDUAL RWG MEMBERS [144/1]
102. MAY BOLHOWER CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [20/1]
103. DOROTHY BRYANT CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [16/1]
104. HECTOR CHEVIGNY CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [40/1]
105. MICHAEL (MIKE) DAVIDSON CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [17/1]
106. Sidney to Fleischer Correspondence, etc [15/1]
107. PAUL FRANKLIN CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [5/1]
108. ROY LANGHAM CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [8/1]
109. PETEB LYON [R. N.: ROBERT CRAWFORD LYON] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [9/1]
110. IRA MARION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [8/1]
111. JAMES A. STABILE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC [18/1]
112. THE SCRIPTWRITER (Eastern Region periodical) [7/1]
113. EASTERN REGION [11/1]
114. EASTERN REGION MINUTES [18/1]
115. MID REGION [46/1]
116. WESTERN REGION [6/1]
117. MID REGION MINUTES [3/1]
118. WESTERN REGION MINUTES [19/1]
119. EASTERN REGION FINANCIAL STATEMENTS [8/1]
120. MID REGION FINANCIAL STATEMENTS [1/1]
121. WESTERN REGION FINANCIAL STATEMENTS [3/1]
122. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. RE BLACKLISTING, COMMUNISM, AND POLITICAL INVESTIGATIONS [20/1]
123. WE THE UNDERSIGNED [organization within the RWG presumably against communism] [8/1]
124. TELEVISION [20/1]
125. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD: (NLRB) [8/1]
126. AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC [25/1]
127. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC [32/1]
128. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC. DRAMATIC AND CONTINUITY WRITERS DEPARTMENT [7/1]
129. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC. LONG WAVE AND SHORT WAVE INFORMATION [21/1]
130. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC [15/1]
131. MUTUAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC. / BAMBERGER BROADCASTING SERVICE, INC. / WOR (New York/New Jersey) [8/1]
132. NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC [30/1]
133. NBC SHORT WAVE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION [8/1]
134. NBC: BLUE NETWORK [4/1]
135. NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.: NEW YORK WRITERS [3/1]
136. NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC. (legal-sized folders) [18/1]
137. AMERICAN FEDERATION CF RADIO ARTISTS (AFRA) / AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS (AFTRA) [6/1]
138. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCAST UNIONS AND GUILDS [2/1]
139. AUTHORS LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC.: [includes Authors League Council material] [22/1]
140. LUISE M. SILLCOX (executive secretary) [18/1]
141. REX STOUT (president of ALA in the early 1950s) [7/1]
142. AUTHORS LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC.: AUTHORS LEAGUE BULLETIN: (catalogued items) [69/1]
143. AUTHORS LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC.: AUTHORS LEAGUE BULLETIN (non-catalogued material) [240/1]
144. FILM WRITERS ORGANIZATIONS [5/1]