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...Other toppers on the U.S. labor movement's wage scale: the Railway Clerks' George Harrison, $60,000 a year; the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, $50,000; the Musicians' James Petrillo, $46,000; the Steelworkers' Dave McDonald, $40,000; A.F.L. President George Meany, $35,000; the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther (who gets no salary as president of the C.I.O...
...Carvalho wrote the second Reuther cover, his researcher also was Blanche Finn. In between, she worked on cover stories about the A.F.L.'s late President WILLIAM GREEN, the C.I.O.'s late President PHILIP MURRAY, the A.F.L.'s new President GEORGE MEANY, the Musicians' JAMES C. PETRILLO and the Maritime Union's JOE CURRAN, among others. As a result, she is on a first-name basis with most of the U.S.'s top labor leaders and has picked up a journeyman's knowledge of half a dozen trades...
...breezy deck of the liner Queen Elizabeth, just before they sailed for Europe, Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, loud-tooting czar of the A.F.L. musicians, shot the breeze with one of his most distinguished rank-and-filers, Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin. Subject oft their chat: the merits of forming a United Nations orchestra. Petrillo was heading for an international labor powwow in Vienna; Menuhin, between concerts in Europe, could get in some hot licks on a forthcoming book about his recent odyssey. Tentative title: Around the World on a G-String...
...Musicians. On a convention platform bristling microphones, while some 1,100 professional musicians grinned and bore it, Amateur Pianist Truman banged out Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Here on the gift instrument, with the nation's most loose-lipped trumpeter, Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, bleating what passed for the south half of a duet going north. Then Truman tinkled through a performance of Paderewski's Minuet in G, later lauded by a Chicago musicritic as "recognizable." But the worst of his week was yet to come...
...Petrillo (Eddie Oliver and the Oliver Twisters; Allied). ''Everybody blames poor Petrillo," chant these singers in what sounds like a peace overture between the vocalists' union and Petrillo's A.F.M. The lament is lamented in close harmony...