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188 MOTIOX-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Mr. BoREN. Yes.
Mr. JMcCann. If you were bound by the judgment of the board appointed by the A. F. of L., can you tell me why you shouldn't be bound by the clarification of the same board, issued subsequently?
]Mr. Price. Calling for a conclusion. I will be glad to answer you.
Mr. McCann. I will let you answer it in your turn, sir. I want to ask him now as a layman. I am asking him as a laj^man for his opinion here for what it is worth.
Mr. BoREX. As I understood it, the directive was final and binding on all parties. The committee was dissolved — didn't have any more standing. They had completed their job.
ISIr. McCaxx. They completed their job on the 26th of December?
Mr. BoKEX. Right.
Mr. McCaxx. 1945, didn't they?
Mr. BoREN. Right.
Mr. McCann. And yet the group all got in a plane and went down to Miami ?
Mr. BoREx. Yes.
Mr. McCaxx. And a month later they were instructed that this was the rule that was to be followed ?
Mr. BoREX. That is right.
Mr. McCaxx^. So while they had done the job on the 26th, you didn't pay any attention to what was done on the 26th until it was reaffirmed on the 26th of the next month, did you ?
Mr. LuDDY. Mr. McCann, it wasn't on the 26th of February they went to Miami. It was on the 26th of February when they put the directive
Mr. Price. Of January.
Mr. LuDDY. Of January. It was early in January they went down to Miami.
Mr. McCaxx. I understand they went down to Miami, though, because they weren't satisfied with the directive.
Mr. Price. That is not right.
Mr. BoREX. No.
Mr. McCaxx. Tell me what the facts are.
Mr. BoREX. They went down to Miami because they did not want to have any other work stoppage in the studios, because we understood that Mr. Hutcheson was not going to obey that directive. We wanted to be certain that we had the full backing of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, We had it reaffirmed down there and they told us that directive was final and binding — that the committee had been disestablished, as I am told.
Mr. McCaxx. The committee had been disestablished ?
Mr. BoREX^. Right,
Mr. McCaxx. That is what they told you in Miami ?
Mr. BoREX. Didn't tell me that. Mr. McCaxx. Did they tell the other group that? Mr. BoREX. That is my understanding— that that is the document, and to put it into effect.
Mr. McCaxx, This reminds me, Mr. Boren, of going to a justice-ofthe-peace court and then going to the district court for a review of the justice-of-the-peace court, and then having the district court pass an opinion that the justice of the peace was right, and going back and