Word: petrillos
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...Petrillo v. the Children...
...time for all parents to rise in disgust when "Czar" Petrillo goes so far as to ban high-school students from playing over the air (TIME, Feb. 19). I am writing to my Congressman. . . . Petrillo may defy the President, but he cannot defy the parents of the nation if they are sufficiently roused...
...watched apprehensively. Many guessed that John Lewis would try to wreck the Little Steel formula in one massive plunge for higher wages. But the miners' boss had something vastly more revolutionary in mind; he lost no time telling the country what it was. Borrowing from Jimmy Petrillo's book, he told the operators he wanted them to pay his union a royalty of 10? for every ton of soft coal mined...
What Now? Hundreds of other U.S. employers watched all this uneasily. Most of them had shrugged off Jimmy Petrillo's royalty on phonograph records (TIME, Nov. 20) as a lamentable freak. But if the coal industry began paying royalties into the treasury of the United Mine Workers, labor royalties would be a freak no longer. Other unions would soon be asking for royalties on automobiles, furniture, shoes and a thousand other manufactured products...
...Remedy? Said KSTP President Stanley E. Hubbard last week: "Petrillo has demonstrated to the world that he has more power [than the War Labor Board]. . . . We therefore have capitulated . . . to his demands that we employ men under contract regardless of whether or not we need them. . . . The remedy to this situation lies in the legislative branch of our government...