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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 265
and investigate the situation as it existed and also to have handed down a directive under the date of December 26, 1945.
Mr. McCann. Just a moment, please. Was that executed by those organizations to which you referred, sir — that paper
Mr. DoHERTT. All seven unions involved.
Mr. McCann. Did they sign that ?
Mr. DoHERTT. I cannot say that. They were parties to the agreement. I assume they signed it.
Mr. McCann. I am only trying to get at this — I think that document is in the record — ^but I want to find out whether these unions that authorized your efforts here or whatever you call it — did they execute an agreement with the American Federation of Labor ?
]Mr. DoHERTY. I am reasonably certain, Mr. Chairman, that all of the unions involved signed that agreement. However, whether it is written — or rather, whether it is signed or not — is beside the point. The big thing is that all of the representatives of those unions were in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time, as was Mr. Eric Johnston and Mr. Donald Nelson, and the situation out here had become so acute and chaotic that it became incumbent upon the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to take specific action, and the agreement was agreed to by all parties. As to whether it was signed or not, I am not sure. The records will be found in the American Federation of Labor office in AVashington, D. C.
Mr. McCann. That is all, sir. and I want, Mr. Chairman, for the witness to proceed, now that we have had this authorization clarified, with his statement, and give him a chance to make that statement without interruption,
Mr. DoHERTY. Thank you. Now, Mr. Chairman, in behalf of Chairman Felix Knight, my colleague, Mr. William C. Birthright, and myself, I desire to make the following statement. Before so doing, I want to make it clear to counsel and to the distinguished chairman of this subcommittee that the chairman of our American Federation of Labor committee has recently undergone several major operations, and for that reason alone he has asked me to give the record and the happenings as they occurred insofar as our committee is concerned.
Our attention has been called to a "smear" article which appears in the August 15, 1917, edition of the New York Times. Since the New York Times is one of the world's most reputable newspapers, it is reasonable to assume that Congressman Carroll D. Kearns, chairman of the subcommittee. House Committee on Education and Labor, which is currently investigating the Hollywood jurisdictional dispute, has been correctly quoted. The article in question reads as follows :
Witnesses Balk Over Film Inquiry
kearns, committee chairman, says high atl officials seek to avoid talking
(By Gladwin Hill)
[Special to New York Times]
Los Angeles, Aug. 14.— Representative Carroll Kearns, chairman of the House Labor Subcommittee investigating the 10-mouth American J'ederation of Labor jurisdictional strike in Hollywood, asserted today that high-ranking AFL officials were trying to get out of testifying at hearings here, but that their efforts would prove futile.