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MOTIOX-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 267
Committee. His modest request was so preeminently just that the committee staff immediately forwarded the following telegram to the subcommittee :
Washington, D. C, August IS, 1947. Hon. Caeroix, D. Keiarns,
Room 32/f, Post Office and Courthouse Building,
Los Angeles, Calif.:
W. C. Doherty, served subpena today, now requests opportunity to appear before your committee in Washington. Speaking engagements and convention plans will be disrupted if he and William C. Birthright, of Indianapolis, must appear in Los Angeles. He offers to bring Birthright and Felix Knight to Washington for full cooperation at some September date. Please wire answer to committee.
W. Manly Sheppard, Clerk, Edtimtion and Lahor Committee.
Despite the A. F. of L. committee's unqualified pledge of full cooperation, the following telegraphic reply was received in Washington :
Los Angeles, Calif., August IS, 19Jf7. W. Manly Sheppard,
Clerk, Education and Labor Committee,
House of Representatives, Washington, D. C:
The request of W. C. Doherty is denied by order of Chairman Kearns.
Irving G. McCann,
General Counsel.
At no time did Vice Presidents Doherty or Birthright "try to get out of testifying," as Chairman Kearns alleges in his statement to the Xew York Times.
Mr. McCann. Now, Mr. Chairman
Mr. Doherty. Ma}' I complete my statement, Mr. Counsel?
Mr. Kearxs. I rule that this witness, Mr. Doherty, has the right to complete this statement. I can take the statement sitting down or standing up — either one.
Mr. Doherty. I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for vou: fair play.
Mr. McCann. I would just like to say this, Mr. dhairman : It occurs to me that we are having a record made here which is unduly long on a matter which does not contribute to the solution of the problem which we are here on, that you are spending a lot of our time, and we have no objection to what you have said — we have not interrupted your statement with respect to the chairman or to me — but Mr. Chairman, I regret to say I think it is unwise to clutter up the record with such a long personal explanation. It could all have been said in one word, "We have not tried to evade service and we are here ready to answer any questions."
But instead of that we are listening to a treatise in which a long article from the New York Times is quoted, and you are still continuing not to deal once with the subject involved, but to make an attack upon the chairman and on this counsel.
Mr. Chairman, as far as I am concerned, I believe this is a matter over which you can spend the afternoon listening to this, if you want to do that, but we are not getting to the meat of the coconut at all, and we do want to get down to the problem of what did they do about the job that we came to Los Angeles to investigate, and that is what we wanted to hear from the committee, and that is what I thought I was giving you an opportunity to make a statement on — what that committee did with the assignment which they received, but instead of