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310 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Mr. DoHERTY. Mr. Chairman
Mr. Keakns. Now, wait a minute.
Mr. DoHERTY. Certainly.
Mr. Kearns. I have invited thcgeneral counsel in there with certain people. After all, I am runnino; this investigation. Don't blame the counsel for everything. I am the Member of Congress running the investigation.
Mr. Dohertt. Mr. Chairman, I want to make the record clear, that you, as chairman of this subcommittee, have been preeminently fair, and I make that statement in behalf of my colleagues on the A. F. of L. committee. Your counsel, however, has been unfair, and I make that statement for the record. Last night after you recessed this meeting, Mr. Chairman, the records wliich were ])laced into the record of this meeting by motion of counsel were here unjirotected and unguarded, and I attempted to enter this anteroom wherein Mr. Sorrell of the Conference of Studio Unions and the representatives of the Screen Actors Guild were present. I was denied admission to tliat anteroom, and eventually, after much struggle, I finally got the records in the hands of general counsel.
Mr. Kearns. Mr. Doherty, may I correct you there, please ? I had invited Mr. Sorrell and these gentlemen there that were appearing for the industry and the various labor groups. We were trying to provide a larger place for these hearings, and that is how I happened to meet with those groups back there in that room last night.
Mr. Doherty. Last night.
Mr. Kearns. Last night. You came to the door and knocked and Mr. McCann told you that he would take care of theni if you placed them on the counsel table ; isn't that correct ?
Mr. Doherty. And he did not admit me to the room. He denied me that right. And I still think it was a right.
Mr. Kearns. I invited those people to meet for a discussion about where we would hold these hearings.
Mr. Doherty. All right, Mr. Chairman, but all through these hearings, up until now, General Counsel McCann has taken advice from lawyers on all sides of him. They have prompted him repeatedly and we of the committee have not taken exception.
Mr. Kearns, All right, just a minute. I will excuse these three men from the stand right now. All three are excused. ]Mr. Luddy, will you take the witness stand?
TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL G. LUDDY— Recalled
Mr. Kearns. You have been sworn, have you not?
Mr. Luddy. Yes, sir.
Mr. Kearns. I would like to have you state for the record whether or not you have been able to give counsel to the counsel for the Labor Committee without writing questions and submitting them to him for answer by the witness who was on the stand.
Mr. LuDDY. I have not.
Mr. Kearns. That is all, Mr. Luddy.
Mr. Price.
Mr. Benjamin. Mr. Price is out.
Mr. Keaijns. All right, you may substitute for him. You may represent him. I will call him wlien he does come into the room.