How to break the Screen Actors Guild

The Los Angeles television station KTLA is reporting on its website tonight that the heads of the eight major Hollywood studios have purchased a full-page ad in Monday's Los Angeles Times, in which they slam the contract demands of the Screen Actors Guild.

"SAG is demanding that the entire industry literally throw out all its hard work because it believes it deserves more than the 230,000 other working people in the industry," the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said, following last week's breakdown of federally-mediated talks with SAG.

It's lucky for the Screen Actors Guild that the AMPTP doesn't know how to break the union.

It's lucky for the Screen Actors Guild that America Wants To Know won't tell them, not for a penny less than a considerable amount more than they'd be likely to pay.

It's lucky for America Wants To Know that Chet Migden, SAG's former executive director, isn't alive to see us offering to sell out the union after he was so generous with his time when we wrote a history of the 1978-79 Screen Actors Guild commercials strike.

Just lucky all around.

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