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Deadline 3.22.13: Stage Managers and Equity

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VEsherry:
Wow! Thank you everyone so much for all of this information! I now have history of the AEA, Why people join equity, and found some things about stage managers and different unions.

But, I am missing one tiny bit of information I find crucial to this assignment.
When did Stage managers become apart of the AEA?
I continue reading about the strike, negotiations with the Syndicate, and how the union has  supported the actors and stage managers, but nothing about how or why stage managers are apart of equity.

I feel my information is beginning to allude that SMs and Actors were joined at the beginning of AEA, but since I dont have information to prove or disprove that theory, I'm somewhat stuck.

Where stage managers in mind when the actors rallied up in 1913? Where they brought into equity after the association was created?  Is it because actors and stage managers work so closely together they should be in the union together? Or could it be that the director needed someone in equity to communicate with that was not an actor?

Samazon:
Going along with the part about Equity's history with directors, perhaps you would like this:
http://www.actorsequity.org/AboutEquity/timeline/timeline_1920.html
While it deals mostly with history that you might have already seen, there is an entry in 1928 that is interesting.

I also have no idea of precisely when stage managers joined Equity (there was record of a group of stage managers pushing for set pay rates for everyone in 1940) perhaps the titles of these records could shed some light.
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/wag_011/dscref257.html#ref258

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