Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1946)

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Helnl Radio News Service 7/3/46 : : : SCISSORS AND PASTE : : Asserts Petrlllo Right In Test Of Law Aimed At Him C David Lawrence in "Washington Star Whatever may be the merits of the labor controversies which James C. Petrillo, head of the musicians' union, is engaged in with broadcasting companies, he is certainly within his rights in refusing to obey a law of Congress aimed at his union alone. This is but another way of saying, however, that he must be pretty sure the law will be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States or else he will face the penal¬ ties of the law even though his purpose may be merely to test the validity of the law and not Just to flout it. Many persons who read about Mr. Petrillo' s defiance of the statute immediately jumped to the conclusion that he was doing something improper or rebellious. Actually there is no way by which any law of the United States with criminal provisos in it affecting a citizen can be tested as to its constitutionality unless a citizen chooses to challenge that statute by violating it or ref¬ using to abide by its provisions.* * * If the Supreme Court does invalidate the Petrillo law as unconstitutional, the country will be faced with a continuance of the coercive practices complained of, or else Congress will have to make such things unlawful as applied to all industries or business¬ es and all unions. Mr. Petrillo is probably taking no chances in disregarding the law and at the same" time he will be inadvertently rendering a service exposing the negligence of duty by the Congress of the United States. Petrillo pictured Ambitious To Be No. 1 U. S. Labor Leader ~T" Variety '*) The manner in which James C. Petrillo was swept back into the presidency of the American Federation of Musicians by unanimous vote and thunderous ovation of the AFM delegates assembled in con¬ vention in Florida, was only one of a number of significant events pointing up that the next 12 months may well be the most turbulent in the battle of Petrillo vs, the entertainment industry* What the convention served to illustrate, for one tiling, is that petrillo is more firmly entrenched within the expanding ranks of the AM, with its nearly 200,000 membership, than ever be¬ fore. But even beyond that, there emerged a Petrillo whose power may even transcend that of AFM prexy and who may eventually step forth as the key figure in the nation's overall labor picture. 13