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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 75
Mr. McCann. They are all in the one local?
Mr. Caset. That is right.
Mr. McCann. I have heard somewhere that a person who sewed on a button could not fasten the button.
Mr. Casey. Oh, I don't believe that stuff.
Mr. McCann. You don't think that is true?
Mr. Casey. No ; I do not.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Cecil DeMille told of a leading; lady who had her dress torn and the seamstress mended the dress but she could not fasten the dress, and that cost a lot of money. Could you explain that?
Mr. Casey. I never heard of it.
Mr. McCann. We will have to have Mr. DeMille tell us about that •dress.
Mr. Casey. That is right.
Mr. McCann. The lATSE has a local made up of all of these hairdressers ?
Mr. Casey. Right.
Mr. McCann. Face
Mr. Casey. Body make-up, make-up, and hairdressers.
Mr. McCann. Is that a new local, or how long has that existed?
Mr. Casey. Oh, no; that has been in existence for a long, long while.
Mr. McCann. It is an old local ?
Mr. Caset. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCann. Now, you have given us all those in the conference union. Have there been any other locals that have been chartered by the conference group ?
Mr. Casey. I don't think so.
]Mr. McCann. Do those locals that are in the painters' group give you any trouble over their jurisdictional rights ?
Mr. Casey. Well, they had the strike over jurisdictional rights between the interior decorators and some that local 40 of the lATSE claimed.
Mr. ]\IcCann. Tell us about that. I want to get all the facts on these things.
Mr. Casey. Well, we originally made a contract with the interior decorators, which was a society.
Mr. McCann. It was not then
Mr. Casey. Not affiliated with any union at all. That contract was for 5 years, and I think it was from 1939 or 1940 — anyway along in there somewhere — for a 5-year period.
In 1942, at our negotiations in New York City, local 40 of the lATSE claimed jurisdiction over those people.
Mr. McCann. You mean 44?
Mr. Casey. No ; I mean '42.
Mr. MoCann. I say, do you mean local 44 of the lATSE
Mr. Casey. Yes.
Mr. McCann. Claimed jurisdiction in 1942?
Mr. Casey. That is correct. That is correct.
Mr. McCann. Go ahead, now ; let's get the story.
Mr. Casey. Now, the contract with the society at that time had a clause to the effect that if the society joined with any other organiza