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378 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
sent out copies then to all of the internationals at the same time you sent a copy to Mr. Green's office.
Mr. Knight. It went in the mail at the same time.
Mr. McCann. That was done on the sole initiatiA'e and the interpretation of the three-man committee, without interference from anyone.
Mr. DoHERTY. That was done on the authority of the directive adopted unanimously by the organizations involved in Cincinnati, October 24, 1945.
Mr. McCann. I wanted to get that in the record. That original decision — no one passed upon whether it satisfied them before you issued it?
Mr. Knight. No one.
Mr. McCann. It was your oAvn product?
Mr. DoiiERTY. Positively, without any equivocation; it was our decision.
Mr. Knight. No one but the committee knew what that decision contained and provided for, w^hen it went into the mail. They didn't know until they got the copy in the mail.
Mr. McCann. After you had made that decision, did that, in your oj^inion, constitute the completion of your work as you were appointed by the council?
Mr. Knight. Yes. We had done this ; we were through.
Mr. McCann. You were through?
Mr. Knight. That was our position.
Mr. DoHERTY. I don't know that I did that, Mr. Chairman, but I certainly assumed our work had been completed, good or bad.
Mr. McCann. That is what we want. Now then, can you tell me, gentlemen, at what time you were first asked to prepare a clarification?
Mr. DoHERTY. That would be most difficult, Mr. Chairman. Let me put it this way, if you will, please : From its inception, the very first meeting of the executive council, which was held, as I recall, in January of 1946, there was considerable discussion relative to the decision handed down on December 26, 1945.
Mr. McCann. That was approximately 20 days after you had handed it down, as I remember.
Mr. DoHERTY'. Somewhere in the range ; yes. I think that is fair. And in every quarterly meeting of the executive council since that time this subject has been cussed and discussed. So it would be very difficult, as a matter of fact, to earmark just when the first protest on our directive came into existence.
I would say probably at that first meeting of the executive council following handing down the decision.
Mr. Kearns. Mr. Doherty, may I ask who requested the directive or the clarification? Was it industry or the unions, or do you recall? Or was it together — did they do it together ?
Mr. DoiiERTY. As I recall, there was a considerable part of the directive which was not entirely satisfactory to several unions.
Mr. Kearns. I see. How about management on that?
Mr. DoHERTY. Management, as I recall, had had some contacts with the leaders of the American Federation of Labor and had expressed themselves, as I recall — I am quoting from memory — and they probably protested, too, but decided to stay out of it officially for the same reason we handed down the decision.