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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 387
the time that erection and construction and building were synonymous terms.'' Are you still proceeding on that assumption?
Mr. KxiGTiT. Well, in shop language, if somebody in authority out there had that table to build and he took the blueprint and the dimensions of it and he went down and said "Joe, build this table," Joe would go out and he would get the material and he would take it to the mill to be milled and he would put it together. Tomorrow he might want another table, and he would take the dimensions or blueprint and go down and say, "John, erect this." John would go out and get the material and go to the mill and get it milled and he would put it together.
The next day he would go and say, "Sam, construct this ; here are the dimensions." Sam would go out and get the lumber and have it taken to the mill to be milled and he would put it together.
Mr. MgCann. You still are of the same opinion ?
Mr. KxiGiiT. I have talked to the men at the studio and they say yes, they use the language out there — build, erect — if they want something made.
The}^ might say, "Go out here and make this." It all means the same to the men in the shop that have got to make it, if he has the dimensions.
Mr. Kearns. Mr. Counsel, let's hold Mr. Knight's question and finish with Mr. Doherty. I want him to get out of here in 5 minutes, anyway, because he has to catch his train.
Mr. McCann. All right. Any questions for ^Ir. Doherty?
A question from Mr. Luddy for Mr. Dohert}^: If at the time of your 1045 decision you thought the 1926 agreement was in force, and if, as you say, you did not learn until later that it was not in effect, what did you mean in your 1945 decision when you said, "The 1926 agreement to be placed in full force and effect immediately" ?
yir. Doherty. We meant exactly what we said there.
Mr. ^McCakn. Mr. Cobb wishes the record to show the respect in wliich he liolds each of you and Mr. Birthright. One, isn't it a fact that you intended the December decision and the August clarification to mean the same thing?
Mr. Doherty. Certainly.
yir. McCann. Two, didn't you intend in both that the carpenters and the lATSE should each keep the work they had respectively been doing?
Mr. Doherty. Havent we already testified over and over again on that subject, Mr. Chairman, and the answer has been yes?
Mr. McCann. One more question by Mr. Luddy : If it was in effect, and he refers to the 1926 agreement, why direct it to be put into effect immediately ?
Mr. Doherty. Because we were handing down a decision — a directive as it has been called — and we were ordering that particular agreement put into effect immediately so there would not be any question of doubt as to our intention or our meaning.
Mr. McCann. These questions are for Mr. Doherty by Mr. Skelton : "Which member of the three-man A. F. of L. committee wrote the December 1945 directive?
Mr. Doherty. All three members write the directive. I think in fairness that I may say probably Mr. Skelton means who prepared it.