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He ini Radio News Service
6/5/46
Macon Reed, at the Statler Hotel, seized opportunity to bring A. F, Whitney, head of striking unions, to Mutual microphones in Statler Hotel and three minutes after President finished, Whitney reported exclusively over the WOL-MBS microphone to the nation and striking brotherhoods.
WOL Washington coverage for Mutual was achieved by Albert Warner, William Hillman, Ray Henle, Russell Turner, Macon Reed, Loren Pope, Lou Brott, Dale Morgan, Bill Brundige, Jack Paige, Myra Wilkins and Helen Keller. 11
June 5, 1946
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PRESS AGAIN JUMPS PETRILLO; CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT DEFIANCE
In one of the many editorials it has printed against labor dictators in general and Petrillo in particular, the New York Times said today (Wednesday, June 5th):
"In recent months the signs have become increasingly plain that some labor leaders in this country now feel themselves to be not only stronger than any employer, or than employers collectively, but stronger than the Government itself. This has been illustrated with¬ in the last few weeks by the action of the engineer and trainmen leaders in calling a strike against the award of the President’s emergency fact-finding board and by the arrogant tone of their letter to the president. It has been illustrated even more clearly in the last few days by the actions of union leaders in several different fields. * * * *
•Marne s C. Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians, to cite an example, warns the Supreme Court that if it holds the Lea Act constitutional he will strike against the national radio networks and order a complete stoppage in the manufacture of phonograph records and transcriptions. Meanwhile he announces: ’I'm now waiting for a marshal of the United States to arrest me because I intentionally violated the Lea Bill (law) in Chicago last week *
"What Mr. Petrillo and some other labor leaders persistently fail to mention in their public statements is that their own present power has been to a major extent conferred upon them by Federal law and court decisions. If Congress wished to do so, it could reply to Mr. Petrillo* s simple little letter by a few simple little changes in existing law. For it is the Wagner Act, as it stands at present, which makes Mr. Petrillo' s power possible. Under that Act he is not obliged to deal with anybody, but everyone who employs musicians is compelled to deal with or through him. Because of this, individual musicians are as much victimized as employers. They are compelled to Join his union and to obey his dictates if they hope to make a living. Mr. Petrillo, who is so free in his defiance of Federal laws, is him¬ self the creature of one of them. He will tolerate no restrictions on unions or on himself; but he has forgotten, as Congress itself seems to have forgotten, that his present power exists only because
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