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olson Belmont Mohr Caspen Callgnan VICTOR RIESEL: Conrad DeLoach INSIDE LABOR Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan Rallies Against Beatles .. Tavel Trotter MAN OF awesome courage, usually' gentle chap. Tele Room now is roused and rallying forces in the State. Holmes Labor and Justice Depts. to stand'off another Beatle Gandy invasion in May and August moments for whichthe Beatlemanlacs have been ltving.... This felow is Herman Kenin, successor to James C. -Petrmo as president of thc American Federation of Mu- sicjans.Mr.Kenin just doesn't believe the Beatles are cuiture The Beatles are mot tmmortal to us." Kenin said the cins and enly sing incidentally. We can g to Yenkers Tennessee and pick sp foar kids who can do this kind stuff. Gaitars are now in the ascendancy tn this country ponntrles, but this.ts.pot.culture._If they .do get back tnto the coantry,they're going to have to leave their imtraments at hame, because there are enough musicians in the U.S.and too many of them are mnemployed. They were here before we realized what happened, but it won't happen again." Mr. Kenin and his colleagues are incensed. They say that the Britishers can come in only if there is a reciprocal arrangement and American musicians.are booked into 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 umion and the government would have turned him down unless the US.took some players from England. Mr. Pe- posal that the gates be swung wide open to both countries The British refused and insisted on man-for-man swap. The pact was made. Only such artists as Jascha Heifetz or Arthur Rubinstein were to be allowed free entry. The agreement was monitored by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.s. Labor Dept. on this side The Washington Post an of the Atlantic. All went smoothly until the Beatles swarmed. Times Herald onto tbe horison. They claimed they were gngers and were The Washington Daily News In the country before the AFM could protest that they were musiclans, and, therefare, should have come under the man- The Evening Star for-man arrangement. New York Herald Tribune Bo Kenin wrote to te British Musicians Union. Back New Yort Journal-American. alcians. New York Mirror New Yort Daily News assistant secretary of the English anion. .. It is true New Yort Post musicians wnlon. But Seither group sabmitted the contract The New York Times Fhor their American visits to s for approval. 62 -92 492-1 The Worker "Having now received your official complaint, we shall Not Recorn?- The New Leader arrange to publish s statement in the trade press that in the futare British beat groups performing in the U.S. may The Wall Street Journal fdo co enly in reciprocal exchange for the performance ef 46 APR 3 1964 American musicians in Britan." People's Warld Baving sbored tp the International.front Mr.Kentn tuned his wratb opon our own Government. He protested Date to the Labor Dept. Becretery Willard Wirtz. agreed to er- tend to actors and Atrr entertainers an immigration clear-. ance order which it lsgzefor sirtualy all other occupations: IAR Under thisproce must approve the entry 6 .Stch admission is re Amec Thus,