These cutrate foreignmade recordings harm grievously cultural development in America and evade the spirit of a Federal law that bars instrumental musicians from coming into the United States to compete at substandard wage rates with American musicians. These socalled mechanical wetbacks in the form of recorded reproductions of musical instruments are masqueraded as art and culture. Instead they undermine our own resident artists and evade existing immigration restrictions on imports intended to protect and foster music and musicians in this country. My bill would stop the importation of mechanical or electronic reproductions of instrumental music intended for use as background sound effects in commercial television and moving pictures. Such banned tape music would have been originally performed outside the United States and reproduced by persons who at the time of such original performance were not eligible under the Immigration and Nationality Act to themselves enter and perform in person in the United States. As one who for years was active in support of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and likewise as an honorary member of Local 76. A.F. of M..
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