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"The powers of the War Labor Board are not going to be tested this time in court but the power of a President to do any¬ thing he pleases and call it a national labor policy essential to the war effort is to be determined.
"The hands of the Roosevelt administration are not exactly clean when they bring this issue to court. Fbr the War Labor Board directed the union of musicians under James Petrillo to cease its restrictions and strikes in the making of broadcasting transcrip¬ tions. Mr. Petrillo defied the Board and Mr. Roosevelt didn’t do anything about seizing the union’s facilities or breaking up the strike. Instead he answered critics evasively by saying he couldn’t find any law on the subject.
"The War Labor Board, however, had pointed out that many broadcasting stations were necessary to the war effort and that the musicians' strike threatened the existence of these stations.
"Tired of waiting for Government aid in the controversy, tne broadcasting stations surrendered ignominlously. Now the War Labor Board says that the union wasn't penalized because the employ¬ ers ’voluntarily’ agreed to the demands of the union and removed the tnreat to the war effort. The companies settled under duress because Mr. Roosevelt was afraid of the musicians’ union and Mr. Petrillo.
Ke isn't, evidently, afraid of Mr. Avery."
A cartoon in the Washington News ( Scripps-Howard) shows Petrillo talking to Sewall Avery. Petrillo is sitting on a huge money-bag labelled "Four Million Bucks, Yearly, For Defying the Government and getting away with it. " Avery is laughing and saying toPetrOlo, "Whadda You Got That I Haven't Got, Caesar?"
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PRESS WIRELESS BROADCASTS DIRECT FROM WAR ZONE
Direct radio news service between America and the European war zone was amplified Tuesday when Press Wireless began transmitting dispatches from its new, mobile unit, Station PV, somewhere in Holland.
First contact from the new station was made by radiotele¬ graph at 8:07 A.M. , EST. A few minutes later the station was picked up at the press wireless control center in Times Square. Shortly afterward the first news dispatch from the new station was filed by Associated Press Correspondent Wes Gallagher.
Press Wireless already ms operating two similar stations, its Station PX, which began transmitting from the Normandy beachhead a week after the Allied landings and moved eastward with the Ameri¬ can forces, and another established on Leyte shortly after General MacArthur began his invasion of the Philippines.
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