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MOTIOX-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 283
"Now, that doesn't mean that if the stagehands, in putting up scenery, have to drive a nail here or there to hold it together that makes it carpenter work. But that's the trouble with these building trades. If a nail has to be driven they claim it's carpenter work."
Then Father Dunne continued :
"I said to Mr. Birthright : 'But that's not what the dispute is about out there, Mr. Birthright. The carpenters have not objected to the driving of a nail liere and there to hold scenery together. They allege that the lATSE is actually constructing scenery on the stages — ^building it.'
"And Mr. Birthright's reply was : 'Nobody has ever told me that'."
Is that correct. Mr. Birthright?
Mr. Birthright. That is correct.
Mr. McCann. Now, Mr. Chairman, it is now 4 :15. May we have a shoi't recess before continuing ^
Ml'. Kearns. Yes. We will take a 5-minute recess.
( Short recess taken. )
Mr. Kearns. I find it most imperative that some of the testimony which has been given here today be gone over very carefully before we can proceed much further with the questioning of this three-man committee.
However, before adjourning this meeting for today, I want to make a few statements in clarification of the statements made by Mr, Doherty at the beginning of the afternoon.
iNlr. Padway. Mr. Chairman, before you do that
Mr, Kearns. Mr. Padwaj^, I am addressing
Mr. Padway. I am asking the chairman for permission to speak.
Mr. Kearns. I will give you every opportunity that you may desire.
JNIr. Padway. But before you close the hearing, will you give me that opportunity ?
Mr. Kearns. I am afraid that will not be possible today.
Mr. Padavay. Suppose I said this to you : Mr. Doherty wants to make a correction in his testimony with respect to his resignation — —
Mr. Kearns. I think that can be corrected, if you will give it to me in writing,
Mr. Padway. I just don't want it to be said that the witness came back the next day and changed his testimony after thinking it over.
Mr. Kearns. I will be very glad to accept that testimony tomorrow,
Mr, Padway. Thank you, sir,
Mr. Kearns. I want to say that I consider it a very great honor and privilege to be a member of the greatest legislative body of the greatest country in the world. That body is known as the United States Congress, and I was assigned this job of carrying on this investigation by the Honorable Fred A. Hartley, Jr., who is chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor.
I carry with me the credentials of my appointment, and in those credentials it is definitely stated that I have the right of a subchairman to carry on an investigation, to go any place and anywhere that I deem necessary in order to gatlier information pertaining to situations that exist in the discharge of my commission that will be informative to the United States Congress iii future legislation that might correct some of the existing evils, and so when I was sent out here to California I didn't know the entire picture until after I arrived here.