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Cracks were opening this week in A.F. of M. Boss Petrillo's dam against phonograph recording (TIME, June 22, 1942). Decca records tried a new wrinkle. Decca's idea was to have vocal soloists accompanied, not by the usual dance band, but by an all-vocal (hence nonunion) ensemble. Decca issued two trial records by Vocalist Dick Haymes with singing support: It Can't Be Wrong and In My Arms; You'll Never Know and Wait For Me Mary. Columbia, working on a similar plan, was about to release two orchestra-less Sinatra recordings...
Rich. In Portland a new nonunion worker pays $20 (helpers) to $30 (mechanics) as initiation fee, then $3 to $3.50 a month dues. In other cities fees and dues are almost as large. So, with perhaps 175,000 initiates since the war boom began, the union's take would be about...
...union, to hire all its employees through the union if the latter is able to fill the position within 48 hours to the satisfaction of the University, and in case the University employs a non union member he must join the union within 21 days, whereas students have a nonunion status...
...Hill was forced to vacate. After officially firing every man jack in the place, Colonel Jones and officers of the Air Corps began rehiring workers from the sober crowd which stood outside, picking those who were on the payroll before the strike on Sept. 30, whether union or nonunion. By afternoon, half the plant's normal personnel had been restored and work was humming...
Although the patrician Boston Symphony, one of the world's three or four greatest orchestras, sounds sweet to most U. S. citizens, it grates on the ears of James Caesar Petrillo, new boss of the American Federation of Musicians. For the Boston Symphony is the only big nonunion orchestra in the U. S. Because of the A. F. of M. hold on the radio chains, the Boston Symphony has not broadcast in more than a year. Last fortnight tough Boss Petrillo forbade RCA Victor to make any more Boston Symphony recordings. "They're through," explained Mr. Petrillo...