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344 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
TESTIMONY OF RONALD REAGAN, EDWARD ARNOLD, AND PAT
SOMERSET— Recalled
Mr. McCann. Have you gentlemen been sworn?
Mr. Somerset. Yes, sir ; we have.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Reagan
Mr. Ivearns. Pardon me just a minute. Mr. Knight, any testimony given by any of these gentlemen referring to conversations or meetings with you that you would like to question them about, you have the full privilege of writing your question out and submitting it to the counsel, and 3'our question will be asked.
Mr. Knight. Does that apply to the other two members of the committee, Mr. Chairman ?
Mr, Kearns. Yes, sir; they may all give written questions to the counsel.
Mr. Knight. Thank you.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Reagan, you have previously testified before the committee that you and your associates visted Chicago at a convention of the American Federation of Labor in the fall of 1946, for the purpose of securing the passage of a resolution setting up a permanent arbitration machinery to settle labor disputes in Hollywood, and for other purposes. Is that accurate ?
Mr. Reagan. Yes, sir.
Mv. McCann. You have further testified before the committee that on that occasion you and your associates visited the three members of the committee appointed by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor who had issued a decision in December 1945 purporting to make a final determination of the strike which then existed in Hollywood, and who had subsequently, in August of 1946, issued a clarification. Is that accurate?
Mr. Reagan. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCann. As I recall your previous testimony, Mr. Reagan^ you and your associates have said something about pressure having been brought to bear upon these three men, and you have purported to give to this committee in substance the words which were used by the three men in explaining why they made the clarification of August 1946. Will you now repeat what was then said to you?
Mr. Reagan. Mr. Chairman and INIr. Counsel, I think it should be made clear that I am not attempting to quote. There are certain phrases and certain expressions that stick out in my mind. I am putting those into my own words, to give you the gist of what was told to us, and the gist was that those men had been subjected to almost ceaseless pressure for 8 months to get them to change their December directive.
Mr. McCann. Did they state by whom the pressure had been applied?
Mr. Reagan. Yes, sir; by Mr. William (Big Bill) Hutcheson, international president of the carpenters' union.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Arnold, is that correct?
Mr. Arnold. I don't remember the Hutcheson phrase, but I assume that he was probably responsible for it at the time this was said. His name was mentioned, and I assumed at the time that the pressure was brought probably on the executive council through Mr. Hutcheson^ and then, in turn, was brought on the three men.