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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 231
Mr. McCann. That perniiinent arbitration machinery should be set up to handle all future disputes in Hollywood?
Mr. Reagan. Yes.
Mr. McCann. Have they set it up ?
Mr. Reagan. No, sir.
Mr. McCann. What is wrong with the A. F. of L. ?
Mr. Reagan. Sir, that is calling for a conclusion on the part of the witness.
Mr. Arnold. May I add that later on there was a conference called in Washington by the American Federation of Labor, at which I was present. Mr. Somerset was present. It was to try and set up some sort of machinery. When we were called to Washington I happened to be there. They asked me to stay. We were called, and Pat came on. We thought that the machinerj^ had already been set up, but nothing had been done about it.
Mr. McCann. W^hen were you in Washington, Mr. Arnold ?
Mr. Arnold. That was in May — around the first week in May.
Mr, McCann. They hadn't done anything then ?
Mr. Arnold. No, sir.
Mr. McCann. They haven't done anything since ?
Mr. Arnold. A committee was appointed and they had been working on it. I understand Mr. Walsh had gone to Europe on some labor trouble over there, too.
Mr. Somerset. I might add there, Mr. McCann, if I may, one of the reasons that the meeting attended by Mr. Arnold and myself in May did not turn out successfully was that the only international president that didn't show or didn't send a representative was Mr. Hutcheson of the carpenters. He is first vice president of the American Federation of Labor.
Mr. Hutcheson had sat in at these various conferences of the executive board who had authorized this meeting to be called when Green snt out the notices of the meeting. Everyone in the motion-picture industry, every union, every international of every union, was represented by either its president or by a representative, except the carpenters, who were not represented at all. ,
Mr. McCann. You man at this Washington meeting?
Mr. Somerset. At the Washington meeting.
Mr. McCann. Yet nothing was done ?
Mr. Somerset. Nothing was done. One of the most important people did not show.
Mr. McCann. I don't see any justification for not doing something just because somebody didn't show, when you had the resolution authorizing that machinery should be set up.
Mr. Arnold. That wasn't in our lap ; that was in their laps.
Mr. INIcCann. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a system that would allow a resolution of this kind, so important, to go for nearly a ,year, with the livelihood of the people in Hollywood at stake, and numerous other disputes taking place out here, besides these two disputes, and nothing having been done by the American Federation of Labor. I think the American Federation of Labor is a great organization, but some of its leaders are in their dotage and they should change their leaders.
Mr. Beilenson. I would like the resolution to go in the record.