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Heinl Radio News Service
6/5/46
them merely standing by doing nothing. He also emphasized that the station's current contract with the Union contains a no-strike clause, also that it permits the station to accept remote programs without using its own engineer.
Mr. Atlas s and members of his family recently sold a 42$ interest in Station WIND to John S. Knight, publisher of the Chicago Daily News for $818,958.
Mr, Atlas s has defied the labor unions on numerous occa¬ sions and as far as this writer knows, is, with a possible exception, the only broadcaster in the United States who, single-handed, has had the courage to stand up and fight James C. Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians.
In 1944 before Mr. Atlass sold Station WJJD to Marshall Field, when Mr. Petrillo ordered WJJD to hire additional and unneeded musicians, Mr. Atlass decided to go direct to headquarters. He tele¬ graphed William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor to reconcile the musicians' walkout with the nostrike guarantee, Mr. Green replied with the following sharp rebuke to Petrillo:
"Regret to learn of strike of musicians employed in your radio station. Such strike cannot be authorized by the American Federation of Labor. It is in violation of the no-strike pledge. Grievances should be taken up for settlement through agencies created for settling controversies which may arise between employer and employee. Will call upon officers of the musicians' international union to instruct musicians to return to work and settle grievance as herein suggested. "
Following this the War Labor Board in Washington ordered the Chicago local to direct their members to return to work immed¬ iately. The case was referred to the Regional War Labor Board in Chicago for disposal.
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WORLD FREE INFORMATION URGED BY STANTON; RECEIVES LAW DEGREE
The free flow of information as a fundamental goal of edu¬ cation and basis for intelligent democratic action was emphasized by Dr. Frank Stanton, President of the Columbia Broadcasting System, last Sunday, in an address before the graduating class of BirminghemSoutnern College. Dr. Stanton received the degree of Doctor of Laws at the college commencement exercises in Birmingham, Alabama, and delivered the Commencement address.
Pointing out the increasing importance of effective commun¬ ications in the period immediately ahead, Dr. Stanton said, "Our civilization desperately needs an uninterrupted period of accelerated intellectual growth to catch up with the advances of science, as well as to make up for what we have been through in the recent past; and to prepare itself to meet the critical problems growing out of the war. "
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