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eg sae Se 2 et “Ra ailing: ‘Against Sites Tite Tele Room Holmes : ‘ We Gandy “Man OF awesome courage, usually a gentle chap, Ow is roused and rallying forces in the State, r and Justice Depts, to stand off another Beatle ‘invasion in May and August—moments for which. the ; tlemaniacs have been ltving. ~::2.-s.:0-eruee © |'m This fellow is Herman successor to James C. “Petrillo as president of ‘American Federation of Mu-- -siclans. Mr. Kenin just doesn't belfeve the Béatles are culture. 7"“"“The Beatles are mot immortal to us,” Kenin said the iether day. “We don't consider them unique. They are suusi- -@idns and enly sing incidentally. We ean ge to Yenkers or ;, Tennessee’ and pick up four kids who can do this kind of | be. “Of eeurse, we bave a cultural exchange with other Se rBouintries, but this ts not caltare. If they do get back inte. * the evortry*they’re going to have to leave their instruments - ~ gt home, because there are enough musicians in the U.S. and #400 many of them are unemployed. They were here before: ewe realized what happened, but it won't happen again.” + Mr. Kenin and his colleagues are incensed. They say " that the Britishers ean come in only if there is a reciprocal | * @rrangement and American musicians . are booked into. i ‘Britain... - } This exchange arrangement was made some years ago ‘when Stan Kenton, purveyor of progressive jazz, wanted < ‘to swing a tour through England. The London musicians *union and the government would have turned him down * unless the US. took some players from England. Mr. Pe-. * trillo, who was AFM president then, countered with a pro- : posal that the gates be swung wide open to both countries. ‘The British refused and insis' on @ man-for-man swap. “The pact was made. Only such artists as Jascha Heifetz or j Arthur Rubinstein were to be allowed free entry. P . —— : The agreement was monitored by the Immigration an ae “ Naturalization Service and the U.S. Labor Dept. on this side The Washington Post and ‘ of the Atlantic. All went smoothly until the Beatles swarmed, Times Herald Aa carer cme eee reece” Lento the horizon. They claimed they were singers and were The Washington Daily News iin the country before the AFM could protest that they were The Evening Star clans, and, therefore, should have come under the man- or-man arrangement. 2 . New York Herald Tribune _..___ Bo Kenin wrote to the British Musicians Union. Back New York Journal-American =} reame a reply agreeing that the Beatles are primarily mu- New York Mirror eer “We are entirely in aympathy .. wrote Harry Francis, New York Daily News Fassistant seeretary of the English union. “. . . It is troe a New York Post !that the Beatles and Dave Clark Five are members ef Tmusicians union. But felther group submitted the pontractaRO™ ‘ The New York Times 72- f- The Worker ffer their American visits to ws for approval r. k. “Having now received your official complaint, we shall 1 boat The New Lecder ‘arrange to publish = statement in the trade press that in NOT RECORIM the Wall Street Journal june future British beat groups performing in the U.S. may 8 1964 @ Wall Street Jo x@o eo enly in reciprocal exchange for the performance of . 46 APR 3 The National Observer >American musicians in Britain.” ; People’s World ; Having whored tp the nternational. front Mr. Kents : —_—— ro his wrath gpon our own Government. He protested, ———ae CES Date — ‘to the Labor Dept. Secretary Willard Wirtz, agreed to ex- SFL tend to tors Tr entertainers an tmmigration clear- - . ’ tance order which it or virtualy al] other occupations. - PUnder this p must approve the entry’ . Ap