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Congress thought earlier this year that it was cutting James Caesar Petrillo down to size with the Lea act, which made it a federal crime to force radio stations to hire unwanted help. After talking with his lawyers, Caesar thought otherwise, trumpeted: "I will fight the Lea bill right up to the Supreme Court...
...Congress passed the Lea Bill to try to control the labor practices...
...music was a possible $1,000 fine or one year's imprisonment for violation of the Lea ("anti-Petrillo") bill recently passed by Congress (TIME, April 15). The bill forbids any attempt to compel radio broadcasters to hire more people than they need. Contemptuous of the law of the land, Caesar ruled that Chicago's station WAAF, a one-kilowatt independent, should double its uncomplaining staff of three record librarians. When the station demurred, Caesar informed the three union members that they were henceforth on strike...
...Congress is working for special interests . . . the National Association of Broadcasters ... big business and Wall Street. . . . The Lea bill was conceived in malice and anger resulting from one of the most expensive and bitter anti-labor propaganda campaigns in the history of our country...
...will fight the Lea bill right up to the Supreme Court," he cried. "Thank God for the Supreme Court...