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428 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Father Dunne. That is all ri^ht. I am not aware that — I never heard that before. I was in the East. I don't know what transpired at the meeting. I don't think there is any significance to the remark. Mr. Sorrell has more than once said to me jocularly, because he has been called a Red, as I have, too, falsely, and he has used the expression to me, "We Reds" jokingly; it doesn't surprise me at all.
Mr. McCann. Are you aware that at a meeting of the Conference of Studio Unions held on July 16, 1947, Charles Sproul, in the absence of Mr. Sorrell, made a report and stated that Mr. Sorrell had told him he, Sorrell, had talked long distance with Father Dunne in Washington ?
Father Dunne. I am sure that is in the testimony.
Mr. LuDDT. I don't care about it.
Mr. McCann. That goes out.
Are you aware that at the same meeting Mr. Sproul stated that the Conference of Studio Unions "had sent Father Dunne to Washington to make contacts on its behalf" ?
He has answered they did.
Are you aware that at the same meeting Mr. Sproul stated that Father Dunne had said he had talked with Lindelhof and Hutcheson during the executive board session, as well as with Senator Taft and Congressman Hartley ?
Mr. LuDDY. Already in the record.
Mr. McCann. All right.
Are you aware that at a meeting held on July 23, 1947, on the Conference of Studio Unions, Mr. Skelton reported to the members that "reports coming from Father Dunne in New York have been most encouraging," and that Mr. Skelton also stated that Father Dunne had been given a list of names by the CSU to contact ?
Mr. LuDDY. Already answered.
Mr. McCann. Are you aware that at that meeting on July 23, 1947, Mr. Skelton stated that Father Dunne had reported having met with most of the ])oople who were on the list given him by the CSU and that he. Father Dunne, had given them very convincing talks on behalf of the CSU?
Mr. LuDDY. Likewise, it has been answered.
Mr. McCann. Did you on Sunday night, February 1, 1947, speak from the same platform to a meeting of the strikers with Vincente Toledano, the well-known Communist leader of Mexican trade-unions, and did you begin your speech by saying :
Speaking here on the same platform with Mr. Toledano is like coming into the big leagues ; I cannot help but feel that I have stepped out of my class.
Father Dunne. In answering that question, I should like to explain.
Mr. McCann. You are free to do so.
Father Dunne. The answer is "Yes" ; I spoke at that meeting with Mr. Vincente Toledano. I did make that remark. The imputation, of course, of the question and the inference which has been drawn from this is that recently I got a very vicious attack on me in a column of the Hollywood Citizen News which indicated I run Avith the Communists or I associate with them or I approve of Mr. Toledano's philosophy.
This is what happened : I had spoken the previous Sunday night at the Conference of Studio Unions' meeting. They had asked me to return the following Sunday night and speak. I said I would.