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You most likely have all read about their plans for the coming year. To fill in some of their background: Artists Equity, during the summer, wrote Mr. Henry Francis Taylor, Director of the Museum asking for an appointment to discuss the using of the monies of the Hearn Fund. This resulted in Mr. Taylor inviting an interim committee of Messrs. Kroll, Walker, Poor, Speicher, Biddle and Kuniyoshi, to discuss a national democratic show, based on Artists for Victory. By mutual agreement the committee is to be enlarged and broadened to represent all aesthetic tendencies. We spoke of a large democratic show which would be either an annual or biannual and to include sculpture and graphic arts. Equity would not run the exhibition but indicated its willingness to cooperate to the best of its ability. 

This meeting was followed by the Metropolitan's announcement on December 7th of the appointment of Mr. Robert Hale as Associate Curator in charge of a new department of American Art. 

The following quotation from the press release is, I believe, very significant. It indicates the growing effectiveness of Equity in representing the interests of all artists.