Word: petrillos
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...pitch was petulant, as usual, but the lines had the lingering quality of an old torch song at midnight. "It's never, never, never," intoned James Caesar Petrillo. "That's all there is to it." And at midnight on New Year's Eve that was all there...
...single record was cut thereafter by any one of the 216,000 members of Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians for any one of the 771 U.S. recording and transcription companies. Tired but outwardly happy, the musicians sat back to wait for Jimmy's next move. Nobody believed Jimmy's refrain, but everybody knew that some time would elapse before he stopped chanting...
River to Cross. The radio networks, which rebroadcast some of their shows to iron out time differences over the country, won a grudging reprieve. They would be permitted to make program transcriptions until Jan. 31, when their contracts with A.F.M. end. Petrillo and the broadcasters would start discussing new contracts next week in Manhattan. It was anybody's guess whether they would come to terms or whether every musician would be yanked...
...week's end the musicians' potato-faced little boss had one more river to cross. He had stood trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago on charges of violating the Lea Act, a law designed specifically to keep Petrillo from forcing radio stations to hire more musicians than they need. The station in this case was Chicago's one-kilowatt independent, WAAF...
Meanwhile Rex Riccardi, vice-president of the American Federation of Musicians, admitted "I don't believe there is anything we can do against the Band." Previous to Petrillo's January 1 ban against union-made records, the AFM was able to block the Band by boycotting stores which distributed non-Union dises...