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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 137
conferences, we believe that we have no choice but to follow its provisions as we agreed to do.
The enforcement of your demands may result in throwing approximately 30,000 employees in Hollywood out of work. We deplore this situation and its gravity and we trust that you and the other unions involved may find a means of settling your differences whicli we are powerless to determine. Yours truly,
Pat Casey, Chairman, Producers' Labor Committee.
[Telegram]
September 17, 1946. Mr. Joseph F. Cambiano,
International Representative of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; Mr. C. A. Sproul,
President of Local 9.'i6 of the Brotherhood; Mr. J. W. Vance,
Recording Secretary of Local DJ/G,
Los Angeles, Calif. In the afternoon of September 11, 1946, you notified us tlmt unless, commencing at 6 a. ni. on the following day, all construction and erection of sets should be performed by members of your union you would declare such sets "hot" and refuse to allow your members to perform work upon them. On the day we received this notice from you we sent you a letter through Pat Casey, chairman of our labor committee, setting forth the reason why we could not accede to your ultimatum. Since receiving our letter your union has authorized that certain sets erected, other than in accordance with your demands, be declared "hot" and your members have refused to perform the work that we have justifiably required them to do thereon.
As stated to you, we deplore the situation which you have thus created and we desire to continue the operation of our studios and the employment of those who have heretofore performed services for us. We hope that to avoid the strife and conflict which will otherwise result you will recede from the position that you have taken, and we also hope that you and the other unions involved in this jurisdictional dispute may settle your differences which we are powerless to determine.
However, unless your members *esume the performance of their work immediately tlie vindersigned will use every legal and i-easonable means to have such work performed by other employees.
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 Pictures Co., Inc. ; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. ; Hal Yj. Roach Studios, Inc.
[Telegram]
September 18, 1946. Pat Casey,
Chairman, Producers Labor Committee,
Hollijivood, Calif.:
In reply to your wire of September 17, 1946, local 644 of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, hereby informs you that, pursuant to the recommendation of the CoTiference of Studio Unions, local 644, will support the carpenters in their effort to force the producers to comply with the directive of tlie American Federation of Labor executive council. We urge that you live up to your word and duty to abide by the American Federation of Labor directive order and thus eliminate the present crisis.
Herbert K. Sorkell.