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)

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Title:
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
Date:
1948
Publisher:
Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Volume:
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 (Eightieth Congress)
Leaf #:
000154
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Boston Public Library
Sponsor:
Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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132 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES [Western Union] Hollywood, Calif., February 12, lOJ/G. Mr. H. K. SoHRKix, Los Angeles, Calif.: Your toloj?rain received. Will be glad to resume discussion at 2 p. m. Thursday, same place. B. B. Kahane, Chairman, Producers' Labor Committee. (Fast wire.) Hollywood, Calif., February 12, 1946. William .T. Bassett, Central Labor Council, Los Angeles, Calif.: We have received your request relative to our future position in view of the notification given to us by the representatives of moving picture painters, local 644; studio carpenters, local 94G ; studio machinists, local 1185; studio electricians, local 40 ; studio sheet metal workers, local 108 ; studio blacksmiths, local 212 ; studio molders, local 374 ; studio plumbers, local 78 ; Screen Office Employees Guild, local 1391; building service employees, local 193; building service employees, local 278 ; Screen Story Analysts Guild, local 1488 ; Screen Publicists Guild, local 1489, threatening a strike in the studios on February 16. It is our unqualified position that we wish to continue the production of pictures in our studios and request that, in accordance with our collective-bargaining agreements and our understanding with the various unions and councils, that you continue to supply employees for the continuation of production. We wish further to advise that we stand ready and willing to continue negotiations with any of the A. F. of L. unions whose wage negotiations are now pending (all lATSE unions in the motion picture industry and the following basis agreement crafts ; Culinary workers, teamsters, studio plasterers, local 755, and studio utility employees, local 724), and that we shall make every reasonable effort to bring these negotiations to a successful and speedy conclusion. We are also ready to agree that any settlement oi" agreement arrived at as result of such negotiations will be retroactive to January 1, 1946. B. B. Kahane, Chairman. Producers' Labor Com^mittee. (Charge fast wire.) Hollywood, Calif. Lloyd Mashbt^rn, Building Trades Council, Los Angeles, Calif.: W^e have received your request relative to our future position in view of the notification given to us by the representatives of moving picture painters, local 644 ; studio carpenters, local 946 ; studio machinists, local 118."> ; studio electricians, local 40; studio sheet metal workers, local 108; studio blacksmiths, local 212; studio molders, local 374; studio plumbers, local 78; Screen Office Employees Guild, local 1391; building service employees, local 193; building service employees, local 278; Screen Story Analysts Guild, local 148S; Screen Publicists Guild, local 1489, threatening a strike in the studios on February 16. It is our unqualified position that we wish to continue the production of pictures in our studios and request that, in accordance with our collective-bargaining agreements an dour understanding with the various unions and councils, that you continue to supply employees for the continuation of production. We wisli further to advis(> that we stand ready and willing to continue negotiations with any of the A. F. of L. unions whose wage negotiations are now pending (all lATSE unions in the motion picture industry and the following basic-agreement crafts: Culinary workers, teamsters, studio plasterers, local 75;";, and studio utility employees, local 724), and that we shall make every reasonable effort to bring these negotiations to a successful and speedy conclusion. We are also ready to agree that any settlement or agreement arrived at as result of such negotiations will be retroactive to January 1, 1946. B. B. Kahane, Chairman, Producers' Labor Committee.