Jurisdictional disputes in the motion-picture Industry : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first-session, pursuant to H. Res. 111 (1948)

MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 19 to be guided by any arbitration award, he will not receive the support of the CSU in its position. Tliis applies to studio jurisdiction only and between locals. Local No. 946 agrees to bind itself to the CSU arbitration agreement and will find out if it can secure permission from its international to sign such an agreement as a local. All contracts will contain this arbitration clause verbatim in each contract. Mr. McCann. May I ask there, was local 946 a member of the Conference of Studio Unions ? Mr. Kahane. Yes, sir. Mr. McCann. Didn't that apply to the unions that are affiliated with the Conference of Studio Unions, so that they would be bound by what the CSU did? Mr. Kahane. I don't know wdtat the rules may be, but I know that local 94C and the Carpenters would not take any action without the approval of Mr. William Hutcheson, the international president. Mr. McCann. So CSU, as a body, voted to pledge itself to an arbitration procedure ? Mr. Kahane. On the local level. Mr. McCann. Btit local 946, a member of CSU, refused to do so until approved by the international? Mr. Kahane. They didn't refuse ; they said that they would undertake to get such approval, and I think they tried to. Mr. ]\IcCann. All right, proceed. Mr. Kahane (continuing reading) : Any dispute other than wages should be submitted to arbitration. Skelton and Brewer will get together and make an agreement covering arbitration. Basis of arbitration will be the A. F. of L. three-man directive. Any machinery set up for arbitration will not require the electricians to withdraw their court action already started. It was agreed to let each studio int'^rpret the directive and award the work wliere in its judgment it belongs under tlie directive and no work stoppage will be ordered for next 30 days or until the arbitration machinery is set up. Unfortunately, however, the proposed arbitration agreement between the CSU and the IxlTSE was never concluded or made effective. I might interrupt myself in the reading of this report to say, in answer to the question you asked me before, that this memorandum of agreement which I have in ray file here specifically disposed of the matter of replacements and provided that, if a studio needed a replacement, they could hire anybody they pleased, and not through their organization, but independently — anyone they could get — they were entirely free to go ahead and get them. Mr. McCann. As I understand it, you have now terminated the treaty of Beverly Hills as an arbitration proceeding with its rejection ; is that right ? Mr. Kahane. Well, at that meeting, Mr. McCann, another appeal was made to these factions to try to get together and set up some arbitration machinery, but there had been previous discussions of arbitration machinery, and that last trip to Hollywood covered the whole arbitration machinery, including all the conference unions and all the lATSE locals, and then the stumbling block is in the international, I think, Mr. McCann. Do you know who was the chief mogul or spokesman at the Beverly Hills meeting — who was in charge of that meeting or presided? Mr. Kahane. I don't like the characterization, but I was the gentleman.