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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 73
ducers are concerned, they will welcome arbitration. They have openly stated that they will pay all the expenses of arbitration. They would AA'elcome anything tliat didn't stop work.
Mr. McCann. Has it ever occurred to you that it might be possible, under your contracts, or have you ever attempted it, where two unions refused to do a job or refused to allow the other to do the job, that the emjDloyer should proceed and employ someone else to do it?
Mr. Casey. You mean should he be allowed to do that under a contract?
ISIr. McCanx. Yes ; I am trying to get at some things here which will help to cure this situation.
Mr. Casey. All right, sir.
Mr. McCann. Under an open shop, if employee A said, "It is my job," and employee B said, "It is my job. If you don't allow me to do it, A and all his group will do it." And if B isn't allowed to do it, all of his group will go out. Under that you will have C to do it.
Mr. Casey. That is right.
Mr. McCann. Why don't you insist on that in your contract?
Mr. Casey. Because I don't think any labor union, to my knowledge, would accei^t such a contract.
Mr. McCann. After the 21st day of August there will be no more closed shops.
Mr. Casey. That is a different story. After the 21st of August I think you could put a lot of things in the contract you couldn't put in before.
Mr. McCann. Don't you think they will be doing a lot to restore the right of workingmen to work?
Mr. Casey. I certainly do. Perhaps, Mr. McCann, you would be interested — in all my experience I have never known where the American Federation of Labor, unless within the last year or two, has ever allowed the people to put an arbitration clause in their contracts. They have never stood for arbitration — let's put it that way — to my knowledge.
Mr. McCann. I believe you testified, when you were before this committee previously, you never in your experience had known of an agreement to settle a jurisdictional strike.
Mr. Casey. There never has been, in my experience. I know, of no case where the American Federation of Labor have ever settled a jurisdictional dispute. They may have made decisions, but I have yet to find the fellow that lived up to them.
Mr. McCann. Now, let's go on from 1939, when local 37 was split up into all these units, and tell me whether there have been any more creation of unions by the lATSE out there.
Mr. Casey. I don't think so, until this last strike.
Mr. McCann. Well, as I read the record, there have been about two more locals created, and I think Mr. Walsh testified this morning that the American Federation of Labor required him to do away with one of those locals, at least.
Mr. Casey. I think, Mr. McCann, those locals were formed and those charters were given since the strike.
Mr. ]\IcCann. I believe 3'ou are right. How many did they create since the strike ?