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Show MUSICIANS WILL BAN RECORDS AFTER JULY 31st The American Federation of Musicians Mu-sicians has informed record manufacturers manu-facturers that after July 31st, none of its 140,000 members will make "records, electrical transcriptions, or any other form of electrical reproductions." re-productions." The union offers to make transcriptions tran-scriptions for the army, navy, and other government agencies and says that it will not object to continued con-tinued production of records for home use if it could obtain clad guarantee that , , J a" I'm would not b.pJ or in juke boxes. The union says that c 800 radio stations in t, f States and Canada w Unite ; music. "They just a ' Hv( sic twenty-four hours it is "a question of who . y" we or they." wtl 'Ufvive The manufacturers ,t they cannot legally enf0 striction on the use f ?8" the hands of merchants " years, records designed .for use have borne a notati . 0n,e ding its use over the a ir V' prohibition has uttle J' u The same observation aDn,i t0e' regulations prohibiting thT to records in juke boxes ot The position of the "unin. 8,000 musicians could b work in places which now rPe ! juke boxes. This seems to n look the possibility that T'' small places would be conli do without music if it S:'t0 cessary to employ musicians!! over, the union position run against public sentiment! the desire of top-rankmg band, i |