Jurisdictional disputes in the motion-picture Industry : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first-session, pursuant to H. Res. 111 (1948)

288 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES I will have more to say when I have calmed down, when my judgment is under a more peaceful situation than it is at the present time. It is only out of respect to you. Mi'. Chairman, and the honorable work you are engaged in, and the duties that you have to perform that I do not call counsel on the outside to Hni.sh thtit which he started here. I wish he would accept the challenge of that kind. I don't make it in this room at this moment because if I did and I went out with him. he would be torn to pieces by the men who it is my honor to represent. Why does this gentleman call himself a lawyer? Does this gentleman call himself a man who understands procedure? Does this man call himself — I beg your pardon for even using the term "gentleman.'^ To understand what is required, he should set the example of the decorum and procedure, not only for the lawyers who are here, but for the others who are around. He has degraded and debased and insulted the Congress of the United States. You, as chairman, members of the bar, the American Federation of Labor and its representatives, I regret to have to make that statement as part of this record. It is a disgraceful proceeding ; one that he should be thoroughly ashamed of, Mr. Kearns. Mr. Padway, members of the bar, witnesses, and those in the courtroom this morning: Naturally, as chairman, I am sorry about the incident. Many of these things go back and back a longtime that none of us know anything about. However, we all, in trying circumstances, regardless of how serious they may be, must always be ladies and gentlemen. I think that these things occur lots of times on the impulse of emotion, and Mr. INIcCann, I know, has been under a great strain here, as we all have. I should have a full committee here ; instead I have to go along alone. I hope that all of you will think of this situation as history. Mr. Padway and Mr. McCann, I hope that we can proceed with the rest of the hearing under a normal situation and process the business we have to do. Mr. Padway. Mr. Chairman, you have my promise with respect to that in the courtroom here and in the proceedings. But with respect to Mr. McCann, I want the record to show I think he is the man he is,, and not a gentleman. Mr. Kearns. Mr. McCann. Mr. McCann. Yes, sir. Mr. Kearns. You are willing to proceed with the witnesses? Mr. McCann. Delighted, sir. Mr. Chairman, there is only one thing I request, and none of this would have happened had Mr. Padway acceded to your repeated requests to follow the procedure which all of the members of the bar have followed during the past 2 weeks. I have no desire to have any words with any counsel, and I think that we have enjoyed an unusually pleasant and agreeable hearing here for a matter of 2 weeks. I am not concerned about the opinion of Mr. Padway nor his effort to threaten me, because I have tried at every moment of the proceedings to act in a manner that was truly representative of a counsel trying to do an honest job. Now, Mr. Chairman, T have nothing further to say, except I very much regret the incident. I assure you it wouldn't have happened if Mr. Padway had ceased talking when you directed him to do so and had he not made a i)ersonal reference to me, which no man has ever