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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 355
Mr. McCann. Do you, Mr. Somerset?
Mr. Somerset. Yes, sir. I think that is true of our international as well as our union.
Mr. McCann. Do you know any means of bringing about a prompt arbitration of this matter ?
Mr. Reagan. Well, sir, this matter has been arbitrated. That seems to be what all the fuss is about.
Mr. McCann. The final question : If no other means is available, would you favor arbitration by the courts ?
Mr. Keagan. AVell, now, sir ; you are asking us a question here that would take a little study. I don't believe that I am qualified to answer right now. I don't know how far you can go in rearbitrating an arbitration.
Mr. McCann. Is that your answer ?
Mr. Arnold. That is my answer.
Mr. McCann. Is that your answer, too, Mr. Somerset ? _
Mr. Somerset. When once a thing is arbitrated, and it is in the record, and it is final and binding, I don't see any possibility of rearbitrating.
Mr. Arnold. Every one of us sitting here at this table who have been in an arbitration, and those that have sat in there, Mr. Chairman — I don't ever remember being asked for a clarification. I Avill tell you, Mr. Counsel, that we have always come out on top, and I have been very fair with it, and never in the 10 or 12 that I have sat in in the 12 or 14 years I have been a member of the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild has there ever been a clarification asked for.
Mr. McCann. Gentlemen, this question is submitted by Mr. Averill Burman : Why does Mr. Reagan insist on the validity of the 1945 award as against the later clarification ?
Mr. Reagan. Mr. McCann, in the last line of the clarification it still says that the clarification is in no way intended to change the December 26, 1945, decision.
Mr. McCann. Any further questions ?
Mr. Cobb has another one.
Gentlemen, there are two 'parts to this question, which I will read as one so that you can dispose of them with one answer.
Do you believe somebody should have the power to enforce arbitration decisions ; and, if no other means is available, would you favor enforcement by our Federal courts ?
Mr. Reagan. Now, you have taken us from being carpenters to being lawyers, Mr. McCann. I don't" know all the rules and regulations concerning arbitration. I asked Mr. Hutcheson once, when he asked us in his hotel room, how we would enforce an arbitration award if we had it, and we told him we believed, in America, when you decided to play ball and had an umpire, that you accepted his decision, whether you agreed with it or not, and that you didn't need a policeman to make you accept it.
Mr. McCann. And what did he say to that ?
Mr. Reagan. Mr. Hutcheson changed the subject.
Mr. McCann. Do you have the same answer, Mr. Arnold ?
Mr. Arnold. I don't think it is fair to ask us the question.
Mr. McCann. What is your response, Mr. Somerset?
Mr. Somerset. Exactly the same. I don't know the answer.