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18 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
the producers at the suggestion of ]\Ir. Sorrell, wouhl furnish an effective sohition to the machinist problem, but such was not the case.
On June 30, 1946, Mr, Sorrell furnished the producers with a memorandum of CSU demands, wdiich must be met if CSU were not to strike on the following day.
Some of these demands related to wage increases for the period commencing January 1, 194G, the various increases which had been granted earlier in the year having been retroactive increases for periods preceding that date. But one of these demands was that the producers would not hire any more machinists pending the decision of the National Labor Relations Board on the petition filed by the producers. Although all of the other demands in the June 30 ultimatum were promptly accepted on that day, the producers could not agree to this condition.
Mr. McCann, Why? •
Mr, Kahane. The next line tells you that. They obviously could not operate without the opportunity and privilege of hiring replacement workers and additional workers who would certainly be needed during the weeks, and probably months, required to complete the hearing. Also assuming that while this hearing was proceeding before the National Labor Relations Board, which might take weeks and might take months, that we could not replace any man working for us if he died, if he got sick, if he quit — we would just have to leave the job undone,
Mr. McCann, That was after this requirement?
Mr, Kahane, Yes, sir,
Mr. McCann, Go ahead, sir.
Mr. Kahane. Apparently this reply of the producers was unacceptable to the CSU because on July 1, 1946, the CSU, including the International Association of Machinists, went on strike.
In an effort to terminate this strike as quickly as possible, a mass meeting was arranged for the afternoon of July 2, 1946, at Beverly Hills, and at this meeting were representatives of virtually all of the motion-picture unions, including the CSU, its constituent unions, the lATSE, the Screen Actors Guild, and others, and the major motion-picture producers. Out of that meeting issued what has been called the treaty of Beverly Hills,
The treaty of Beverly Hills sent the strikers back to work and reaffirmed the agreement made earlier on June 25, 1946, that bargaining in respect to machinists should be postponed until the National Labor Relations Board had determined the appropriate bargaining representative on the petition filed by the producers.
Mr. McCann, And that gave you the right to employ necessary machinists in the interim?
Mr. Kahane. Well, you will get just how we handled that,
Mr. McCann, All right.
Mr. Kahane. By that document, the parties agreed on various matters relating to wages and working conditions; they agreed to await and abide the result of the NLRB hearing on machinists and publicists, and they agreed with respect to jurisdictional disputes as
follows :
Arbitration
CSU, as a body consisting of several locals, will pledge itself to an arbitration procedure. If any of its members who subscribe to this plan fails to accept and