The Nation - News from Jan. 9, 1985

The Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity asked President Reagan to reverse the decision to use 200 non-union performers without pay at his inaugural celebration. Equity’s executive council also authorized the use of emergency funds to mount a demonstration in Washington if Reagan does not intercede, Dick Moore, the union’s spokesman, said in New York. In Washington, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan, a former guild president, “certainly supports the union” and had been unaware of the inaugural committee’s call for singers and dancers to perform for free.