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)

388 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Fortunately being an old telegraph operator, I have some knowledge of the use of a typewriter, and I typed it. Is that what Mr. Sketton means ? Mr. McCann. I don't know, but I think that will explain it. Then, in other words, the language of the thing was agreed on between the three of you, and you did the manual work of typing it; is that what you mean ? Mr. DoHERTY. Definitely. Mr. McCann. In what city was that directive written ? Mr. DoiiERTY. Most of it was written in Hollywood, Calif. We had a typewriter in our room, and I better put in the record that I belong even now to the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America and I have a right to use a typewriter. On the way back to Washington we went over and over the record, the decision that was finally handed down, correcting to the best of our knowledge and ability with our limited educations the document that we were going to hand down, and I would not know the exact date that the whole thing was in its final form, Mr. Chairman, I would not remember that, but it was ready by December 26, 1945. Mr. McCann. And it was written here in Hollywood and on the train. And where else did you go then, to Chicago and Indianapolis, and stay there until you issued it, or where did you go? Mr. DoHERTY. I think it was completed — 99.44 of it completed right in Hollywood at the Roosevelt Hotel. Mr. McCann. Were any legal counsel present when it was written, and if so, who ? Mr. DoHERTY. None whatsoever, Mr. McCann. That completes Mr. Skelton's question. There is one other question here I have from Mel Young, and someone else. I can't read this. He is a technician, Mr. Doherty, did you know the grips who had an agreement with the carpenters were the only lATSE local at that time in the studios doing w^ork comparable to carpenters on sets on stages? Mr. DoHERTY. I think that came out, Mr. Chairman, during the testimony by these various groups that came before us in the Roosevelt Hotel durino; our hearings. And it is all a matter of record here and could be found in this voluminous docinnent. Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, that completes the questions I have to ask Mr. Doherty, Mr. DoiiERTY. Now, Mr. Chairman, I would like to say something in behalf of the three committee members, since two of us have been excused with the permission of the Chair and must catch our trains tonight. In behalf of the committee, I want the record to show that the three committee members hold the chairman of this subcommittee in highest esteem and that we think he is a definite credit to the greatest legislative body on the face of the earth. We wish him every possible success in everything that he aspires to do in life. He has been l)reeminently fair all through the thing, with the three vice presidents of the American Federation of Labor, I want the record also to show that the three A. F. of L vice presidents submitted no questions whatsoever through counsel, in keeping with the procedure which had been established here. We were of the