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...Niles Trammell. the softspoken, spectacled head of the National Broad casting Co., calling from New York. He begged to speak to Mr. Petrillo...
Sitting at his gigantic mahogany desk (the biggest he could buy at Marshall Field's), stub-legged James Caesar Petrillo, czar of U.S. musicians, picked up the receiver. Mr. Trammell said he would like to see Mr. Petrillo soon in New York. Barked Caesar Petrillo: "I'll come only if you're ready to sign. I'm damned tired of all the meetings we've had in the last 28 months...
Thus the beginning of the end for the long ban on new recordings by Columbia and victor, producers of two-thirds of the nation's 150,000,000 new records annually. The ban had begun in August 1942, when Petrillo demanded that the record companies pay his union treasury a small tribute on every record made. Since then, Little Caesar had won every battle. He had split the solid record-company front by signing up Decca (and 100-odd small-fry companies) a year ago. Then he defied the War Labor Board, boldly ignored an appeal by President Roosevelt...
...Slaveowners." Two days after the phone call. Caesar Petrillo sat in another of his offices, this time on the 34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...
...told "no" by James Caesar Petrillo, boss of all U.S. musicians, after he politely asked Mr. Petrillo to stop the two-year-old ban against making phonograph records. (RCA Victor and Columbia, which make two-thirds of U.S. phonograph records, have refused to pay Petrillo's union a tribute for each record-which for the entire industry would total from $500,000 to $3,000,000 a year to the union treasury.) Some Republicans howled that the President sent troops in to haul out obstinate employers, but was humble before Labor Boss Petrillo. Some suspected that Mr. Roosevelt...