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	James Petrillo Information
		James C. Petrillo (March 16, 1892 - October 23, 1984) was the prominent leader of the United States of America's labor union of professional musicians.
		James Caesar Petrillo was born in Chicago, Illinois.
		James Petrillo died at the age of 92.
	www.bookrags.com /James_Petrillo (187 words)

	James Petrillo
		James C. Petrillo (March 16, 1892 - October 23, 1984) was the prominent leader of the United States of America's labor union of professional musicians.
		James Caesar Petrillo was born in Chicago, Illinois.
		Petrillo became president of the Chicago local of the musician's union in 1922, and was president of the American Federation of Musicians from 1940 to 1958.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/James_Petrillo.html (167 words)

	James Caesar Petrillo - Encyclopedia.com
		Petrillo continued to serve (until 1963) as president of the Chicago branch of the AFM after his resignation as national president.
		Petrillo was born in Chicago in 1892 and...
		James Caesar Petrillo was elected president of the...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Petrillo.html (714 words)

	New Jersey Herald: Another faces jail in Byram teen's death
		James Petrillo, 22, was convicted of third-degree perjury after a jury trial last month.
		Petrillo and Saleh, who were not directly involved in the murder, were allegedly part of that wall and were charged with threatening another witness to keep her from testifying.
		Saleh and Petrillo were neighborhood friends of Guica and Russo, and Saleh allegedly told his girlfriend that Russo had "shot someone" the day after the murder, said Jonah Bruno, a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, and warned her not to speak to the police.
	www.njherald.com /secure_story/25519015899289.php (284 words)

	IEEEVM: James Petrillo
		James Petrillo was the leader of the American Federation of Musicians during the 1940s, when he launched "Petrillo's War" Courtesy: Chicago Federation of Musicians - Local 10-208.
		Petrillo also saw a threat in radio, since it could be used to distribute music all across the country.
		When television arrived in 1948, Petrillo sensed another loophole in laws that might have allowed stations to pay musicians only for the time they actually spent performing, even though TV shows were distributed across the country and could be recorded and re-broadcast.
	www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /collection/people.php?id=1234680&lid=1 (569 words)

	Big Band Era Recording Ban Of 1942
		Petrillo pulled bands off the Blue Network earlier in the week, until he was informed that it was NBC, the former Red Network, that he was after.
		Prexy Petrillo has not backed down by his claim that recording was ruining the jobs of 60 percent of the AFM membership and that he meant to do something about it.
		Petrillo then retorted that an investigation was in order when two thirds of his union were out of work due to the actions of a small minority, who in return for $3,000,000, destroyed $100,000,000 worthn of work for the other members.
	www.swingmusic.net /Big_Band_Era_Recording_Ban_Of_1942.html (1838 words)

	James C. Petrillo: The Man Behind the Petrillo Band Shell
		Born in Chicago, James C. Petrillo became active in the Chicago Federation of Musicians, Local 10 of the AFM.
		National president of the AFM from 1940 to 1958, he organized a recording strike during World War II to protest free airplay of recorded pieces.
		In 1935, Petrillo's free concert series in Chicago's Grant Park began, and the park's band shell bore his name.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2452.html (161 words)

	Cereal Kilurz - EFFL Franchise - 1999
		Petrillo added that he was looking forward to the flexibility he would have at the auction thanks to his $77 left under the cap.
		James Thrash (3) caught what appeared to be a TD, but the officials ruled him down a few inches shy of the end zone and the play was not challenged.
		James Thrash (0) was also robbed of a TD for the second straight week, after a pass he caught in the end zone was called back because of an unrelated holding penalty.
	www.canseconet.com /ck_2002.htm (4469 words)

	BackWhen.com - Where Are They Now?
		In 1942, Petrillo said that canned music generated $3 million in revenue to musicians and $100 million to the music firms.
		In any event, Petrillo, who died in 1984, had served the union for almost 50 years and had changed the musical industry for better and for worse.
		His legacy can be seen in many well paid musicians, as opposed to the hand to mouth existence of all but a few, before his tenacity paid off.
	backwhen.com /whereare.asp?WhereID=103 (453 words)

	James Petrillo
		In his youth Petrillo played trumpet (reportedly not particularly well), but made a career out of organizing musicians into the union starting in 1919.
		Petrillo became president of the Chicago local of the musician's union in 1922, and was president of the American Federation of Musicians from 1940 to 1958.
		His most famous actions were banning all commercial recordings by union members from 1942 - 1944 and again in 1948 to presure record companies to give better royalty deals to musicians; these were called the Petrillo Bans.
	www.fastload.org /ja/James_Petrillo.html (206 words)

	PETRILLO, James Caesar : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The suit had been brought by RCA (see Fred Waring) and the decision was wrong, the opposite of the decision preceding the formation of ASCAP (which see), but broadcasting helped to sell records.
		Selvin got a standing ovation, but Petrillo demanded that record companies refuse to allow records to be played on the radio and juke boxes without additional royalties being paid, though they'd already tried and failed to do that; then he ordered musicians to stop recording on 1 Aug. '42.
		Just in case he hadn't done enough damage, Petrillo called a second recording ban in '48, when many of the bands had already folded.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/p/P64.HTM (376 words)

	NIAF MileStones
		James Petrillo, President of American Federation of Musicians, and other notable Italian American labor leaders.
		James joined an independent musicians union until 1918 when he became a member of the American Musicians Union (AMU) that was affiliated with the nationally powerful American Federation of Labor (AFL), becoming president of the Chicago local.
		In 1940 James Petrillo achieved a milestone for Italian Americans when he was elected national president of the American Musicians Union, utilizing that forum to become one of the nation's most powerful labor leaders.
	www.niaf.org /milestones/year_1940.asp (589 words)

	John Kedenburg, SP5, Army, Central Islip NY, 14Jun68 57W017 - The Virtual Wall®
		This morning while visiting the grave of my childhood friend, John James Petrillo, who died in combat in Vietnam on Feb. 6, 1968 I happened upon another grave a short distance from his that arrested my attention.
		The words "Medal of Honor" were written upon the stone and all of the lettering was in gold rather than in the standard fl.
		A Note from The Virtual Wall: SP4 John J. Petrillo, mentioned above, was one of three men from Delta Company, 3rd Bn, 22nd Infantry, killed in action on 06 Feb 1968 in Hau Nghia Province.
	www.virtualwall.org /dk/KedenburgJJ01a.htm (766 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2003041418
		They might have conferred inside the building instead-one of them, James Caesar Petrillo, was the local's vice president-but he thought the walls had ears, and the message he wanted to deliver was confidential.
		To Petrillo, this was tantamount to a declaration of war; he considered the Chinese restaurants his personal fiefdom.
		Petrillo was given the name Caesar at birth, but Stein took it for himself when he was a teenager.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random045/2003041418.html (2142 words)

	About AFM - History
		1940 - James Petrillo was elected AFM President.
		Petrillo struggled to find ways to compensate the thousands of musicians who continued to lose work because of recording.
		In association with other arts groups, the union lobbied for the establishment of a US government department dedicated to conserving the heritage and elevating the position of the arts in America.
	www.afm.org /public/about/history.php (2169 words)

	The Middletown Press - Cromwell teen flips over ATV
		Police said the man, Sturbridge, Mass., native James J. Petrillo, 23, apparently borrowed a Honda Rancher from the TPC course where he worked and went joy riding in the state forest adjacent to the prestigious golf course/development.
		At approximately 4:39 p.m., as Petrillo was riding through the woodlands along the west bank of the Connecticut River when the vehicle flipped over, pinning him in the icy-cold stream at the bottom of a ravine.
		As the rescuers converged on the area, police asked Petrillo’s girlfriend to have him dial police to see if they could hone in on him using a global positioning system that it is increasingly becoming a standard feature on many cell phones.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1645&dept_id=10856&newsid=16107317&PAG=461&rfi=9 (552 words)

	Musical Chairs Part II
		In 1941, James Caesar Petrillo, the outspoken president of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), commissioned a study to determine whether the use of recorded music took away jobs from musicians.
		The survey found that the record companies paid millions of dollars to AFM members and any problems caused by records could not be solved by a musicians strike.
		At the AFM convention on June 8, 1942, Petrillo announced that beginning on August 1, no AFM members would record or contract to record any mechanical music.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/us_history_1929_1945/111188 (372 words)

	American Federation of Musicians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the most famous actions by the AFM was a ban on all commercial recording by members in the 1940s in order to pressure record companies to make a better arrangement for paying royalties to recording artists.
		This was sometimes called the Petrillo Ban, after the longtime powerful leader of the union, James Petrillo.
		Most recently the AFM has been involved in dealing with problems caused by virtual orchestras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Federation_of_Musicians (188 words)

	Reason: The Music Never Stopped: Recordings depend on music, not vice versa.
		What I didn’t know is that my delusional world was the dream of a tough union leader in the first half of the 20th century, James Caesar Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM).
		He saw that recorded music, and the broadcasting of that music on radio and jukeboxes, was a threat to his boys’ jobs (and his).
		There are no more AFM bosses like Petrillo, who in the ’30s had enough clout to make all the radio stations in Chicago hire union musicians to flip records.
	www.reason.com /0403/cr.bd.the.shtml (650 words)

	MP3tunes Music Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The musicians' union chief, James Petrillo, had managed to keep the musicians out on strike against the record companies for more than two years.
		Although the bands were active in movies, on radio, at public appearances and wartime camps, they were not given the opportunity to make records as non-union musicians.
		The bands rushed to the studios and in the space of a few months recorded many of the songs they had been playing for those years on strike.Since they had last recorded, the bands had changed through new ideas.
	www.mp3tunes.com /album_details.php?album_id=29814 (306 words)

	Grant Park Music Festival \| History and Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Petrillo’s motives were twofold - to make classical music available for all Chicagoans, and to provide secure employment for union musicians.
		As Petrillo pursued his dream of a concert series in Grant Park, the area just south of the park was being transformed for the Century of Progress Fair to commemorate Chicago’s 100th anniversary.
		In 1934, Petrillo was appointed to the newly created Park Commission and convinced the commission that a permanent series of open-air symphonic performances in the new shell would benefit the city.
	grantparkmusicfestival.com /history.shtml (1259 words)

	Notable citizens of Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Borow, former State Senator and close friend of President Lincoln
		Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and presidential candidate in 2004
		James W. Cronin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Famous_Chicagoans (364 words)

	The Carl Wilson Foundation: News - Printer Friendly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jimmy Petrillo served as President of the AFM (American Federation of Musicians) from 1940 through 1958.
		This charitable trust fund for disabled musicians was created by James C. Petrillo in 1951 in honor of his son, Lester, who died at the age of thirteen.
		Members may apply for a grant from the Lester Petrillo Fund by completing an application form which may be secured from their local's Secretary.
	www.carlwilsonfoundation.org /petrillo2print.htm (478 words)

	New York Daily News - Crime File - Crime and Local Briefs: Charges stiffened against mom in baby drowning case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Both Tommy Saleh and James Petrillo were acquitted of felonies in the Dec. 20, 2004, incident involving Sara Ayoub, 20.
		Ayoub testified that Petrillo told her that he and Saleh, her then-boyfriend, were taking her "upstate" when they picked her up in a car after learning she spoke to cops about the Oct. 13, 2003, murder of Fisher.
		She immediately linked the threat to a bloodcurdling episode of the HBO series in which a woman is whacked for cooperating with the FBI against the mob.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/372884p-317099c.html (708 words)

	AllRefer.com - James Caesar Petrillo (Labor, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		James Caesar Petrillo[pEtril´O, pi–] Pronunciation Key, 1892–1984, American labor leader, president of the American Federation of Musicians (1940–58), b.
		In 1915 he became president of the American Musicians' Union.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on James Caesar Petrillo
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Petrillo.html (257 words)

	Professional Musicians Local 47 Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On Jan. 23, 1953, Local 47 President John teGroen and I, representing Local 767 as the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, appeared before President James Petrillo and the AFM International Executive Board (IEB) for the purpose of consummating the merger of Locals 767 and 47.
		During this meeting the question arose as to whether the 767 proposal met all the legal requirements of a merger.
		t this point, Assistant to President Petrillo, Rex Ricardi, stated that it was the position of the Federation that the proposal did meet all the legal requirements of a merger.
	www.promusic47.org /benefits/amalgamh.asp (267 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - 'Sopranos' for the prosecution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The jury is weighing charges against Ayoub's then-boyfriend, Tommy Saleh, and his pal James Petrillo.
		Ayoub testified that Saleh and Petrillo picked her up in a car after hearing she spoke to cops about the Oct. 13, 2003, murder of the Connecticut college student.
		Saleh, 23, and Petrillo, 22, are accused of belonging to a street gang called Ghetto Mafia, led by John Guica.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/371253p-315872c.html (493 words)

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