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JUEISDICTIONAL DISPUTES IN THE MOTION-PICTURE
INDUSTRY
MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1947
House of Representatives, Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor,
Lo^ Angeles, Calif.
The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., in room 324, United States Post Office Building and Courthouse, the Honorable Carroll D. Kearns (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.
Mr. Kearns. The hearing will come to order, and I would like to make this opening statement. It was originally planned to commence this hearing with certain public witnesses, with the idea that the committee might secure as quickly as possible an over-all view of the Holly wood jurisdictional strife from an impartial point of view. Since arriving in Los Angeles we have had so many conflicting reports with respect to the real issues which are involved that the committee has decided to hear industry witnesses first, and, if possible, to follow those witnesses with the local labor leaders and complainants of the warring factions in Hollywood. It seems to me that it will be better to have the public witnesses follow rather than go before industry and labor. In this was, it is hoped, we will be able to secure a more impartial summary of the facts by the public witnesses.
Now, I want this hearing to be conducted in a most orderly fashion, so that we can expedite our job here as much as possible, and I am going to ask the wholehearted cooperation of all the witnesses and members of the various organizations, and their friends, and the interested public that attend these hearings, so that you might have an over-all picture that this is not a trial, but an investigation. I want you to understand that the counsel for either industry, or any of the labor organizations, or the public, will have an opportunity to have questions asked, but only by following this procedure :
As you will note, there will be counsel surrounding the committee's counsel, Mr. Irving G. McCann, at the counsel table; and when the counsel wish to have the witness questioned, they will write out the question and submit it to the secretary, Mrs. Locher, and she will pass the question on to the committee's counsel, who will ask the witness the question tendered by the counsel of the interested groups. ■ I also want to request that all those in the hearing room refrain from any expression of sentiment during this hearing, because you must bear in mind at all times that we must be impartial and we do not want any expressions by those attending the hearing to have any influence upon the testimony. I hope that all in the courtroom will obey the signs, "Positively no smoking," and we will proceed at once with the witness.
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