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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 417
reading it over tlie plione to the operator, as I recall, I interlaced possibly two or three additional sentences, I remember very distinctly.
Mr. Kearns. We can't put it in the record unless it is an exact copy.
Father Dunne. May I read the gist of it?
Mr. Kearns. You may read the gist of it, but I don't want it in the record.
P'ather Dunne. I believe Mr. Casey has the exact copy.
Mr. Kearns. I will be glad to put the exact copy in.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Casey, do you have an exact copy ?
Mr. Casey. If I have, I will produce it.
Mr. McCann. Tell us what the gist of the telegram was.
Father Dunne. The gist of the telegram was simply a repetition of these five proposals made at the meeting and a statement of the Conference of Studio Unions that they had accepted them without qualification, and a challenge to the producers and the lATSE to expi'ess their willingness to negotiate on this basis as described in the proposals, and a statement that, in my opinion, if we evaded these proposals or refused to, it would confirm or would indicate an unwillingness to take any steps to settle this on a just and equitable basis. And it would, therefore, make clear what side was unwilling to settle find what side was willing to settle.
Mr. McCann. What was the answer you received?
Father Dunne. I received no direct answer.
Mr. McCann. Did you receive any answer from the Screen Actors Guild?
lather Dunne. I didn't send a copy to the Screen Actors Guild.
Mr. McCann. Oh.
Father Dunne. I sent a copy to Mr. Casey for the producers and Mr. Walsh and Mr. Brewer for the lATSE.
Mr. McCann. What answer did you receive from Mr. Walsh and Mr. Brewer?
Father Dunne. The only answer I received was a letter from Mr. Walsh's secretary in New York, telling me the telegTam was there and Mr. Walsh was presently out of the city. On his return, he would, no doubt, give serious consideration to it and communicate with me; he never did.
Another reaction to this which I thought significant was an effort — I cannot name the individuals — an effort that was made to have me cease my activities in trying to settle this thing through my ecclesiastical superiors.
I sent that telegram one night and the following day, before the cfternoon, there had been telephone calls made to the superior of our high school in the city, apparently upon the false assumption the high school and the university was under the same superior. This call came from Paramount studios.
There were telephone calls made to the university to the effect that the producers were furious. There was a man who was employed at Twentieth Century-Fox, in I think a rather important position, Mr. Robert Fenton, assistant to Colonel Joy. He telephoned me and came out to see me that morning. He is a man I had known for many years — I had not seen him for about 20 — he told me that morning in
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