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He Ini Radio News Service
5/29/46
to the prejudice and immeasurable harm of the workingmen and women in that industry.
"We cannot conceive how and by what reasoning the Con¬ stitution of the United States can be said to support this law. Under this law, this Chicago station can overwork its employees; it can unfairly deny employment to three deserving musicians; it can amass thousands upon thousands of dollars of profits, most of which are the result of music, yet spend a mere pittance on music.
"No reasonable person can justify such a law. Under this self-same law workers who quit work in an attempt to obtain fair working conditions and to secure what the union deems vital to its survival and growth are denounced as criminals and subject¬ ed to long imprisonment and a heavy fine.
"We sincerely believe that the right to a peaceful strike and to peaceful picketing is among the sacred freedoms eternally protected by our Constitution. We sincerely believe that the guardians of the Constitution, the Supreme Court of the United States, will not yield to the malicious pressure of a raanuf acture d campaign of lies and vilification.
"My union, and I as its president, are fully and irrev¬ ocably committed to the protection and preservation of the rights of our thousands of members who are so brutally and unjustly jeopardized by this law, as well as the rights of all organized American workers whose unions are directly assaulted by the phil¬ osophy of this monstrous legislation.
"My union and I are, therefore, committed to the absolute policy of utilizing all its energies and resources to resist this vicious law, unless and until we are told by the Supreme Court of the United States that the Eill of Rights and the abolition of slavery do not apply to American musicians, and that I do not be¬ lieve the United States Supreme Court will ever do. "
In a press interview prior to giving out his formal state ment, Mr. Petrillo said that WAAF, which broadcasts with 1,000 watts, daytime only, was a "canned music" station that didn’t use any "live" musicians and that it makes $$200,000 a year profits. He charged that Congress was working for special interests and when asked to specify replied, "The National Association of Broadcasters bit business and Wall Street." He was quoted as saying:
"We have had enough of governmental regulation during the war and if anyone thinks labor is going to stand aside and lose all its privileges it has gained during the last thirty years, he is wrong. All labor will be cemented together as never before. We’ve got to be save our owi hides. "
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