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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180 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Mr. Casey. No ; I have not. Mr. McCanx. You have referred in your testimony to a contract which was entered into between the carpenters and local 80. Is that local 80 of the lATSE? INIr. Casey. Yes, sir. Mr. INIcCann. And I believe that has been received in evidence? Mv. LuDDY. Yes. Mr. Price. That is exhibit 6. Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, since this is going to be an exhibit, has been received in evidence as an exhibit, I am going to ask the reporter not to copy it in the record, and let me read it to everyone concerned. (Exhibit 6 was here read by Mr. McCann and will be found reproduced in the appendix.) Mr. McCann. Now, Mr. Casey, I have a few more questions to ask you. Did you, yesterday, hear the testimony of the two representatives from Warner Bros, and from Columbia Studios with respect to the orders which they received from your office concerning the discharge of carpenters who refused to do their work? Mr. Casey. I did. Mr. McCann. Did you give any such orders from your office to these men who testified yesterday ? Mr. Casey. I did not. Mr. McCann. There were no instructions issued from your office at all? Mr. Casey. Not from my office, sir. Mr. McCann. To Mr. Sax? Mr. Casey. No, sir. Mr. McCann. Or to Mr. Hopkins? Mr. Casey. No, sir. Mr. McCann. They were to discharge carpenters who did not do their work? Mr. Casey. No instructions from me. Mr. McCann. Well, did it come out of your office from anyone in your office? Mr. Casey. Not that I know of. Mr. McCann. That was what they said yesterday, wasn't it? Mr. Casey. I believe it was. Mr. McCann. Were you ever present at any meetings between the executive board and the producers ? Mr. Casey. Executive board Mr. McCann. Executive board — it must be of the producers. Mr. Casey. Yes; I was present sometimes. Mr. McCann. Were you present at meetings between — I don't know what this executive board question suggested here is. Mr. Casey. It probably means the labor board — labor committee. Mr. McCann. Were you ever present at any meetings between the producers and the labor committee you mean? . Mr. Casey. Yes, sir. Mr. McCann. Whom do you mean by the labor committee? Mr. Casey. Mr. Kahane, Mr. Mannix, ]\Ir. Freeman, Mr. Work, and, I think, Mr. Ezzell, and four or five other men connected with the studios.