Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done it. He beamed happily, thumbs in suspenders (see cut), over having beaten the rap in a Chicago federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing him to trial for making radio stations hire standby musicians. He was also negotiating a new contract with the major U.S. radio networks, a process which involved the threat of a walkout by his musicians...
...didn't have to make them. The musician is being asked to destroy himself." In 1936, unabashed by the fact that he was simply the head of one local union, he announced that union musicians would no longer make records in Chicago. He also forced radio stations to hire standby workers-i.e., extra musicians they did not need...
...week's end the musicians' potato-faced little boss had one more river to cross. He had stood trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago on charges of violating the Lea Act, a law designed specifically to keep Petrillo from forcing radio stations to hire more musicians than they need. The station in this case was Chicago's one-kilowatt independent, WAAF...
Before & after the wage increases, management argued that the U.S. was still getting no full dividend from full employment (60,000,000 jobs). Shortages tended to choke the full flow of production, and many a worker was so little worthy of his hire-and so little worried about losing his job-that productivity per worker was little if any better than in 1946. In short, 1947 could have been still better if everybody had worked harder and more efficiently...
Says Tagliavini: "Some married singers I have known are so jealous of each other that they hire separate claques. That will never happen in my family...