Word: petrillos
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...Seattle last week, a convention of the potent, closed-shop American Federation of Musicians unanimously blew a corporate kiss to its boss, James Caesar Petrillo. Blanket approval was voted for all of Boss Petrillo's executive acts of the year past...
There were many to approve. Just before the Seattle convention Jimmy Petrillo had forbidden NBC, in its broadcast of the launching of the U.S.S. South Dakota (TIME, June 16), to air so much as one toot by the high-school band from Sioux Falls, S. Dak. that played for the occasion. It took appeals from the State's Governor and two Senators, and finally a telephone call from A.F. of L.'s William Green to placate Boss Petrillo...
James Caesar Petrillo, tough, grey little boss of the powerful, closed-shop American Federation of Musicians, has long been accustomed to tell employers what's what...
Last week in Manhattan. Boss Petrillo for once got some of his own medicine...
...teamsters' demand was as reasonable as Boss Petrillo's "standby" system by which radio stations and theaters using canned music must hire union men to stand by and do nothing. But Boss Petrillo would not take the medicine. The Manhattan local brushed off the teamsters' local. Thereupon teamsters picketed theaters with "Unfair" signs, announced that they would move no scenery until the dispute was settled...