Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1943)

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9/21/43 PETRILLO PARTIALLY LIFTS BAN ON RECORD MAKING As a result of an agreement reached last Saturday in Chicago by Decca Records, Inc., and its transcription subsidiary World Broadcasting System with James C. Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians these concerns v/ill be allowed to resume the making of records and transcriptions. The terms of the agreement were not made public. A. Walter Socolow, counsel for six transcription com¬ panies still under the Petrillo ban, said that "no direct offer" has been made to his clients by Mr. Petrillo, but that the latter Intimated last week that any agreement with one transcription company would be available to all of them.. "We will be eager and willing to make a deal that will allow the men to return to work promptly," Mr. Socolow said, add¬ ing that "we want to know what the deal ls--whether we’re paying the men or the union — and what the principle is." The War Labor Board’s hearing on the Petrillo case ad¬ journed Monday in New York after a short session evidently to give the parties in the controversy a chance to confer further as a result of the Decca settlement. Joseph A. Padway, attorney for the union, and Milton Diamond, counsel to Decca, refused to make oublic details of their pact until it had been reduced to legal form, a fact that, tem¬ porarily at least, delayed efforts toward a general settlement of the strike with other concerns. As Decca and its transcription subsidiary. World Broad¬ casting System, resumed business operations, Mr. Socolow sought to have the musicians return to y/ork immediately for his clients at whatever fees the Decca deal provided. Mr. Padway rejected the request on the ground that the concerns could build up a backlog of discs and then, if they wish¬ ed, refuse the Decca terms as a permanent settlement. Reports circulated meanwhile in the hearing room accord¬ ing to the New York Times that Mr. Petrillo had won a major victory under the Decca contract. Contrary to reports last week from Chicago, it viras said that the contract provided for payment of fees directly to the naticmal union’s headquarters, as Mr. Petrillo had demanded from the first. X X X X X X WHEN THE TWOSTATION "CHAIN" BROADCAST WORLD SERIES Chain broadcasting, which has made radio the educational and entertaining medium that it is today, has come a long way from the first chain program, which broadcast the World Series ball games direct from the playing field in New York in 1922, to this day when world-wide hookups are not uncommon to the listening public, according to Kolin Hager, manager of General Electric’s station WGY which, with WJZ in New York, introduced and pioneered in chain broadcasting 21 years ago. -10