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2 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Mr. McCann lias an announcement to make, and then we will call the first witness. Mr. McCann.
Mr. McCaxn. Mr. Chairman, I would like for the record to show that Messrs. Barry Price, Maurice Benjamin, and Burton A, Zorn are appearinjj today as counsel 'for the Motion Picture Producers, and that Mr. Michael Luddy is appearing as counsel for the lATSE, and Mr. Zach Cobb as counsel for the carpenters. If there is anyone else in the room who purports to represent any other party in interest, 1 wish they would make themselves known at this time.
Mr. Chairman, the first witness will be Mr. B. B. Kahane, vice president of Columbia Pictures Corp.
Mr. Kearxs. Mr. Kahane, will you please raise your right hand? Do 3^ou solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. Kahane. I do.
TESTIMONY OF B. B. KAHANE, VICE PRESIDENT, COLUMBIA PICTURES CORP., LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
Mr. McCaxx. Will you please state your full name?
Mr. Kahaxe. Benjamin B. Kahane.
Mr. McCaxx. Where do you reside?
Mr. Kahaxe. Beverly Hills, Calif.
Mr. McCaxx. What official position, if any, do you hold?
Mr. Kahaxe. I am vice president of Columbia Pictures Corp.
Mr. McCaxx. Please state for the record your telephone number?
Mr. Kahaxe. Home?
Mr. McCAXX^ Home and place of business.
Mr. Kahaxe. Home, Crestview 6-7758 ; office, Hollywood 3181.
Mr. McCaxx. How long have you been in motion pictures?
Mr. Kahaxe. Since 1920.
Mr. McCaxx. How long have you been a vice president of Columbia Pictures Corp.?
Mr. Kahaxe. Eleven years.
Mr. McCaxx. I note that in the memorandum which has been furnished me you are referred to as chairman of the subcommittee of the producers' labor connnittee, which subcommittee was in active charge of negotiations during the recent strikes and jurisdictional troubles in Hollywood; is that correct?
Mr. Kahaxe. Well, I assumed to act as spokesman or chairman for the committee for a few years.
Mr. McCaxx. Tell the chairman exactly what your status is, whether you just assumed something or whether you actually held an official position as chairman of a subcommittee.
Mr. Kahaxe. There was never any official position created, because it was necessary or advisable to have a spokesman or chairman at meetings and 1 was selected more frequently than the others, so I assumed to act almost entirely during the critical negotiations in 1945 and '4G.
Mr. McCaxx. Now, tell us just what the organizational set-up of the industry was within which you became an acting chairman of a subcommittee.