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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 323
]Mr. Keakxs. I have one question I would like to ask the committee.
Do you feel that probably the interpretation in the clarification pertaining to the grips and the jurisdiction of the grips and the duties of the group so known as the grips, probably in great part is responsible for some of the misunderstandings in the present jurisdictional strike ?
Mr. DoHERTY. Yes ; I feel that is a fair statement, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Kearns. You may or may not answer this question, but I would like to throw it out to you for consideration.
]\Ir, DoHERTY. We will be honored to answer any question that the chairman of this distinguished committee asks us.
Mr. Kearns. I have served on a lot of committees, and many times, after you write a decision and then probably a clarification of the decision, after time has elapsed and you sit clown and study it carefully and try to evaluate it, it is like reading a book three or four times, you get a different meaning of it.
Possibly, with a restudy of some of the fine provisions that you submittecl to this committee in the settlement you made here, if you thought about it after the lapse of time, would it be possible that, if 3'ou had to make recommendations again, you might change your opinion i
Mr. DoHERTY. I doubt it, Mr. Chairman, speaking only for myself.
Mr. Kearns. Yes, sir.
Mr. DoHERTY. And I pray to Almighty God I will never have to make another interpretation or clarification or decision in anything having to do with Hollvwood.
Mr. McCann. I have one other question, Mr. Chairman. I would like -to pass a few of these temporarily, if Ave might have a recess and come back in for them, if you please, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Kearns. Just a miiuite. I was not through.
Mr. McCann. Oh, I am sorry, sir.
Mr. Ivearns. I can appreciate your stand there in the answer to my question. However, I believe that the findings of your committee are most valuable to me, and I feel truly that you approached the job in all sincerity to do a job that was right and just.
However, I feel that you still have an important part to play — that you have invested the time and done all this research — and I personally want you to consider that as we go along in this investigation that we feel that you are of necessity part of the developments that we may run into in this unfolding of this testimony, Mr. Doherty.
]\Ir. Doherty. Mr. Chairman, my first responsibility is to the most intelligent group of people in America, the United States letter carriers.
yiv. Kearns. Well, I say that you have served them well, sir.
Mr. Doherty. And I shall not attempt to do anything that will take me away from them during my term of office. They are poorly paid. They are only realizing, as everyone else is now, 47 cents on a dollar. They need a raise in pay, and you, Mr. Chairman, might do something about that in the next session of Congress.
Mr. Kearns. I have heard all about it.
Mr. Doherty. But I want to say, Mr. Chairman, because you have been so preeminently fair, I will repeat in behalf of the committee, with their permission, that you and the members of your committee