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...Jimmy Petrillo's lawyer had gotten together with RCA Boss David Sarnoff, representing the record makers. The compromise was simple: the union musicians relaxed their demands for royalties on all records sold since the Jan. i ban, in return for fatter royalties to come when the presses start cutting records. The new rates: 1% of the retail price of all records selling under $1 and a "slight increase" in royalties on records costing more than...
Actually, both sides had been willing to get together all along, if a nice legal way could be found to do it. In the old days, record makers paid royalties directly into the union's welfare fund, which Petrillo controls. The Taft-Hartley Act stopped that: it forbade the union to have the sole say-so on the fund. Now that everyone was friendly again, neither side expected any trouble in finding a neutral trustee to handle the money, acceptable both to Uncle Sam and to Little Caesar Petrillo...
...while, it had looked as if James Caesar Petrillo and the record companies might kiss, make up and start turning out records again. But by last week the romance had cooled: Jimmy wanted too big a dowry from the record makers. All records now being released are either ten months old, imported, made secretly by anonymous musicians, or accompanied by choral groups, jew's-harps, kazoos, washboards and other instruments not considered musical by the Musicians' Union...
...Pete Petrillo, George Goodrich, and several other Varsity men who didn't win a berth to Cornell switched over to the Jayvees for the afternoon, and all added to Leicester's plight...
...prove her point, she went into a wacky burlesque of it. "Well," said Red, "sing it that way." She did; and every night the boys put in a few more burps and barks. When they decided to record it, they picked out "instruments" they were sure Petrillo had never thought of banning...