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...immediately drew fire from New Jersey's redheaded Congressman Fred Hartley, committee chairman and coauthor of the Taft-Hartley Act. Hartley's voice trembled with outrage as he cried: "Do you know that the London Gramophone Corp. is flying records to the United States, and that it brought in twelve tons this week and that 250,000 more records are on the way? These British companies will make lots of "money...
...hours, the fascinated committee was gazing at Petrillo like high-school sophomores watching a juggling act. One member, Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman Carroll D. Kearns, a member of the union, suggested amending the Taft-Hartley Act to authorize royalties on records sold for commercial use. The hearing ended. Further hearings were postponed. Everyone-including James Caesar Petrillo-seemed very, very happy...
...good will among his membership stood him in good stead. He had announced that the musicians were out of the recording business for good & all. This could be interpreted as meaning that he wanted the companies to discover a way of giving him royalties (now forbidden by the Taft-Hartley Act), and of shouldering the responsibility of suggesting it. Whatever happened would not happen soon. Last week nothing would have horrified the big record producers more than an end to the ban. They had built up huge stockpiles of master recordings, a great many of which fell far short...
...HYRC will appear again on the WHDH forum February 12, when it will take a pro stand on the Taft-Hartley bill...
Artillery. Republican Congressmen listened to the President in frigid silence. In Harry Truman's 43 minutes on the Speaker's rostrum, G.O.P. applause spattered forth only twice: when he promised to enforce the Taft-Hartley Act, when he urged "strong armed forces." After it was over, one newsman noted: "They had to cut a hole in the ice to get him out of the Chamber...