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He ini Radio News Se rvice
6/11/47
PETRILLO TIMING POOR DEFYING CONGRESS WITH LAEOR BILL UP
Defying President Roosevelt (in wartime at that ) having left a bad taste in the mouth of the Administration, it seemed to be the opinion in official Washington that James C. Petrillo picked a poor time this week to threaten Representative Carroll D. Kearns, Republican, and indirectly to attack Congress. Especially so since Representative Kearns is the Chairman of the House subcommittee which is preparing to investigate Petrillo, since the Labor Bill which has a featherbedding clause in it aimed at Petrillo is now before the President, and the Supreme Court is Just due to hand down a decision on the constitutionality of the anti-Petrillo bill. Mr. Kearns1 hearings will begin on the first Monday after the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the bill (Lea Act) which is directed against Petrillo^ practice of insisting upon ” standby 11 employees in radio,
Kearns, who at one time was a music teacher by profession and a member of Petrillo* s union, had accepted an invitation to conduct the students orchestra July 4 of Dr, Joseph Maddy at Interlochen, Michigan, which Petrillo had ruled off the air.
MI warn you, Congressman Kearns, we are going to drop you right in Maddy1 s lap if you pick up that baton on July 4 and we are going to e xpel you from this organization11, Mr. Petrillo declared at an AFM convention in Detroit Monday.
Replying to this the Pennsylvania Congressman said that the Petrillo Congressional investigation would take about ten days or two weeks and that if he could complete this work before July 4 he would go to Interlochen, Mich., to conduct the Maddy Orchestra.
"I am interested in what is being done up there”, he added. ”1 will go up if I can get away. ”
He said that the announcement of Mr. Petrillo in Detroit yesterday was ”a little premature”.
nI am not worried about the toss, anyhow”, Mr, Kearns asserted in reference to Mr. Petrillo*s threat.
The Representative formerly taught music, but he became Superintendent of Schools in his home town several years ago. He Indicated that the loss of his union card would not worry him,
”Like a lot of others”, Mr. Kearns said, ”1 don*t make my living at it, ” He added that he did not believe that more than 9 or 10 per cent of the AM members depended on music as their principal source of income, ”
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