Jurisdictional disputes in the motion-picture Industry : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first-session, pursuant to H. Res. 111 (1948)

MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 365 it seemed to him that she was growing taller. When the waltz was over, he said, "I beg your pardon. I want to know if I am suffering from a hallucination. You know, when we started, I recall you came up to the tip of my ear. Now you stand half a head taller." She said, "It is a bit embarrassing to tell you the truth. I have a wooden leg and you have been turning me the wrong way all during the dance." [Laughter.] I listened with a great deal of interest to the nonpartisan speech of my good friend, Jesse Donaldson [laughter], and I am going to be equally nonpartisan. [Laughter.] By the way, have you noticed that, since June 30, members of the administra tion and the Democrats, in particular, have started to talk about butcher shops and butter? [Laughter.] I am glad to hear what the Postmaster General is in favor of. You know, incidentally, I have been a member of the House for 18 years; 16 of those years I have been a member of the minority party. It is getting darn monotonous. [Laughter and applause.] Just when all the polls predict there is going to be a change, we don't have a Post Othce and Post Roads Committee. I just want to sa this in passing, however : I have said what I have said in all good nature and in all good will. All of my 18 years I have been a member of the Post Office and Post Roads Ck)mmittee, and I don't recall any time when there was a real political difference within that committee. Like the Postmaster General, or as the Assistant Postmaster General said, "I won't care how you vote, as long as you vote Republican." [Laughter.] But I will make an exception ; I will go a^ step further than he did. I will say, if your Democratic Congressman voted for your interest, then vote to return him. [Applause and cheers.] I think he mentioned something about loyalty to friends. [Ringing sound from microphone.] I'm being heckled. [Laughter.] That's right,. Bill; there must be a Democrat outside. [Laughter and applause.] I thought they only did that in New Jersey and Chicago. [Laughter.] The Assistant Postmaster General spoke about loyalty. Let me say this to every member of this convention present today : If the postal employees, the carriers and all the rest of the postal employees of New Jersey can be taken as an example, the postal employees know their friends, and I can testify to that. [Applause.] I have had quite a number of fights ; as a matter of fact, I have had a fight every campaign I have been in [laughter], both primary and the general elections as well. There are some Republicans that don't like me, too. [Lavighter.] But let me say this, in one particular fight — I am going back to 1942 — I had a tough fight on my hands. As a matter of fact, I wound np winning by only 52 votes. That is how tough it was. And if ever a fellow needed a friend, I did. I recall one afternoon in particular — a Saturday afternoon — when there was an outing of the postal employees; I think the carriers were responsible for it, an outing at an outing place in New JeiTsey. In spite of the fact there was no labor issue involved at all, there was a threat of a picket line around the party. Your president,. Bill Doherty, and your other officers, Clarence Stinson, and many others, and all of my postal friends in New Jersey, went up to that grove, and the attendance was twice as big as it would have been if the pickets hadn't been threatened. How do you like that? [Applause.] I said a moment ago there hasn't been any politics in the Post Office and Post Roads Committee. Let me say this — and I think you will agree with me when I say it : During the past 2 years, in particular, under the leadership of now Senator Burch, of Virginia, the House Post Office and Post Roads Committee has reported more legislation beneficial to the postal system and the postal employees than in any corresponding period in its entire history. [Applause.] There is an old Chinese proverb which says : "Whenever an uncle kisses his nephew for the fiiist time, there shall he gain special attainment. If he kisses him on the head, he becomes a great thinker ; if he kisses him on the lips, he becomes a great speaker ; if he kisses him on the throat, he becomes a great singer." I don't know where Tom Burch's uncle kissed him for the first time, but he certainly made a wonderful chairman of our committee. [Laughter and applaiise.] Don't explain that. [Laughter.] May I also add that, in my opinion, Tom Burch has joined with men like Clyde Kelly and Jim Mead as great friends of the postal employees. [Applause and cheers.]