New details have emerged regarding the latest proposal offered to the WGA from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. EW has obtained an exclusive memo that was circulated Friday by the AMPTP to all of the member companies outlining the “New Economic Partnership” it presented to the writers late Thursday before talks were postponed until Dec. 4. Along with explaining how the new offer would deliver more than $130 million in additional compensation “above and beyond the more than $1.3 billion working writers already receive each year,” the letter said the average pay for a working writer could increase up to $31,000 over the three-year life of the contract, which would be “on top of the current average writer’s compensation of more than $200,000 a year.”

“With these improvements, writers remain among the highest paid employees in America,” the letter said. “This more than $130 million increase is believed to be one of the largest compensation increases of any major union contract negotiated in recent American history.”

The AMPTP also tried to indicate that it had negotiated in good faith by withdrawing 29 proposals from its original plan and offering to remove another six, including an idea to pay residuals to writers only after the companies recovered their basic costs.

After talks broke off Thursday, the WGA distributed a detailed memo of its own that not only crunched the numbers but argued that the new proposal amounted to a “massive rollback.” The AMPTP argued in its letter that the offer to increase writers compensation by a total of $130 million is “in fact a very big ‘roll’ forward.’”

Now that the negotiations between the AMPTP and the WGA have been postponed and the muzzles have been removed, accusations of malfeasance and plain old dirty pool are flying as both sides try to comprehend why no deal had been made after four days at the table. On Friday morning, scribes like Without a Trace creator Hank Steinberg began circulating emails to the WGA membership accusing the moguls of spreading disinformation — primarily via Nikki Finke’s blog — to “get us psychologically used to the idea that the strike will end, and then dash those hopes.” (Finke wasn’t the only one reporting optimism on the producers’ side; several network and TV studio insiders, as well as showrunners, told EW that everyone was feeling hopeful that a deal could be ironed out this week.) In his emails, Steinberg rallied his colleagues to stay strong and keep holding their placards high. “The idea of picketing for a couple of more weeks doesn’t sound particularly glamorous to any of us,” he wrote. “We’re still in good shape to make a fair deal and we shouldn’t allow their tactics to dampen our spirits or forget what it is we’re striking over in the first place.”

Meanwhile, folks within the AMPTP camp were grousing today that the WGA refused to resume negotiations once the producers presented their new proposal to writers yesterday at an undisclosed hotel. According to one source close to the AMPTP, the producers were willing to continue negotiations through the night and weekend, but the WGA elected to resume talks on Dec. 4 instead. In the meantime, the WGA had plans to accommodate “Hollywood’s Golden Age” on the pickets line today by inviting veterans like Christopher Knopf (The Big Valley), Millard Kaufman (Mr. Magoo) and Tom Mankiewicz (Live and Let Die) to join the march.