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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 351
lished procedure by which all matters of vital importance are submitted to the union in Avriting and a secret ballot made by the membership of your union on the question at issue. Is that correct ?
Mr. Reagan. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Reagan, at that time I believe I asked you if you had any suggestion to offer for the solution of such problems as had arisen in Hollywood, I believe that you stated to me it was your opinion that if unions generally adopted the policy of submitting a matter of importance to their membership, and had the membership vote on it by secret ballot, that most of the union problems of this country would be cured. Have I correctly quoted you?
Mr. Reagan. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, I think that that is a very important contribution from the Screen Actors Guild.
Are there any questions which any of you have to ask of these actors?
Mr. Chairman, I hold in my hand some questions submitted by Mr. Luddy, to be asked individually of Mr. Reagan, Mr. Arnold, and Mr. Somerset.
You were present during the time that Messrs. Doherty, Birthright, and Knight testified, were you not ?
Mr. Reagan. Yes, sir.
Mr. Arnold. Yes, sir.
Mr. Somerset. Yes.
Mr. McCann. They all three answer affirmatively. In view of the fact the testimony given by these three men is directly contrary, in many important particulars, to the testimony which you previously gave on the witness stand, do you now desire to in any fashion change the testimony you previously gave?
Mr. Reagan. No, sir.
Mr, Arnold. No, sir.
Mr. Somerset. No.
Mr. McCann. They all answer in the negative. A question submitted, to be asked Mr. Somerset.
At the May meeting in Washington with the A. F. of L. executive council, was Hutcheson present?
Mr. Somerset. No ; no, he was not.
Mr. Arnold. Mr. Somerset and I were there. He was not there.
Mr. McCann. What was the occasion for your committee being in Washington at that time, Mr. Somerset?
Mr. Somerset. It was a direct call of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, to try to set up permanent arbitration machinery for the motion-picture industry, in accordance with the resolution that had been passed at the Chicago convention the year previously.
Mr. McCann. Is that correct, Mr. Arnold?
Mr, Arnold. Yes; the convention authorized the executive council to set up the arbitration machinery for the motion-picture industry alone. Of course, I happened to be in Washington and they asked me to attend the meeting. I went there, thinking that the machinery had already been set up, but in the meantime nothing had been done. There was quite a hullabaloo about it.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Somerset, was any explanation given for Hutcheson's absence?