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 135 counterproposals in your office by 12 noon Saturday, and we are desirous of meeting witli you continuously through Saturday and Sunday if necessary, or until satisfactory agreements are arrived at and signed. On July 1, 8 months will have elapsed since we returned to work. We now demand the security of signed contracts, also wage increases in keeping with today's living costs, if we are to continue work. Herbert K. SoBREa:,L, President, Conference of Studio Unions. Mr, Price. The next document is a copy of the treaty of Beverly Hills, which is already in the record. Mr. McCann. Let's take out that document from the set. It is rather a substantial document, isn't it? Was all of it read into the record ? Mr. Price. No, sir ; I believe not — I think only through the arbitration portions, but: the rest of that was not read. The next is a letter dated September 17, 1946, addressed to local 644 of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers. Mr. McCann. Just a moment, before you do that, I will just pass this to Mr. Casey and ask him, if he will, to identify this as a full and complete copy of the Beverly Hills agreement. I don't believe it is entirely in the record. Let's put the whole thing in instead of the other contract originally received and marked "Exhibit No. 3." Mr. Price. That is, the latter portion, you mean ? Mr. McCann. No; all of it. Mr. Casey. Yes, sir. Mr. McCann. Let's put this in in place of the other contract, because this is a signed copy, and we will have it received in evidence as a complete thing. Proceed. (The signed copy of the so-called treaty of Beverly Hills appears in the appendix as exhibit No. 3 in lieu of the agreement originally received.) Mr. Price. Do you want me to read it? Mr. McCann. No ; don't read it. Mr. Price (reading) : Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., Hollywood 28, Calif., September 11, 1946. Local Union 644 op the Brothebhood of Painters, Decorators, and Papee HANGE31S of AMERIOA, Los Angeles 5, Calif. Gentlemen : During the afternoon of September 11, 1946, we were notified by the United Bi-otherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, local 946, that unless all construction and erection of sets in the studios of the undersig^ied producers of motion pictures should be i)erformed by members of said local union, it would declare such sets "hot" and refuse to perform work upon them. On the same day we replied to this demand by forwarding a letter to the representatives of said union, a copy of which is enclosed herewith. We have today sent to the same union a telegram of which a copy is also enclosed. In the meantime, your members have refused to perform work upon sets declared "hot" by the earijenters. Unless your members resume the performance of such work for the undersigned, we will use every legal and reasonable means to have such work performed by other employees. Yours truly, Columbia Pictures Corp. ; Samuel Goldwyn Studios ; Loew's Inc. ; Paramount Pictures, Inc. ; RKO-Radio Pictures, Inc. ; Republic Productions, Inc. ; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. ; Universal Pif'tiires Co., Inc.; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Hal E. Roach Studios, Inc.