Kiss for Petrillo

In Seattle last week, a convention of the potent, closed-shop American Federation of Musicians unanimously blew a corporate kiss to its boss, James Caesar Petrillo. Blanket approval was voted for all of Boss Petrillo's executive acts of the year past.

There were many to approve. Just before the Seattle convention Jimmy Petrillo had forbidden NBC, in its broadcast of the launching of the U.S.S. South Dakota (TIME, June 16), to air so much as one toot by the high-school band from Sioux Falls, S. Dak. that played for the occasion. It took appeals from the State's Governor and two Senators, and finally a telephone call from A.F. of L.'s William Green to placate Boss Petrillo.

To quash competition in the future, the A.F. of M. convention passed a resolution providing that State legislation be sponsored by which school bands would be forbidden to play commercially.

> Another resolution adopted urged formation of "a great band, orchestra and chorus which shall soften human hearts."

> A.F. of M.'s executive board was authorized to bar union musicians from making phonograph records. It may also levy a tax on 400,000 jukeboxes.

> Boss Petrillo told his men that they could walk through certain picket lines. Example: those thrown up by Manhattan teamsters, who last month demanded the right to carry musicians' instruments at $10 per piccolo per day, $20 per night (TIME, June 2).

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