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)

MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 429 Mr. Toledano, who is president of the LatinAmerican Federation of Trade Unions, and vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions, and official delegate to the International Labor Office, formerly a part of the League of Nations and now a part of the United Nations— he happened to be in Los Angeles that week attending a conference between management and labor, representing all petroleumproducing countries. Somebody, I don't know who, in the conference, because of his prominence as a labor leader, because of his influence in LatinAmerican circles, asked him to speak at this meeting. I learned Mr. Toledano was to speak at the meeting, so the question arose in my mind, "Should I appear at the meeting or should I stay away simply because he was there?" I saw no reason then and I see no reason now for staying away. As a matter of principle, I am not afraid of Communists. I am not a Communist. I am not a Communist fellow-traveler. I sympathize with them. I sympathize with Communists. I sympathize with anybody that is intellectually confused. I subscribe to the doctrine that we cannot hate anybody. I don't hate Communists. We must love, not only our neighbor but our enemy, assuming the Communist is our ■ enemy. I have no hatred for him. I maintain personal relations of the friendliest kind with Communists, or anybody else. That is part of my philosophy. There is no reason why I should stay away from a meeting simply because Communists are there. There were thousands of people there. The reason I appeared that evening along with Mr. Toledano, was that thousands of people going home afterward would say to themselves, "The Communists aren't the only people interested in justice. They are not our only friends. Here is somebody else that is a friend of ours," so far as any bad effect of it is concerned. The remark I made about Mr. Toledano, yes, I made that remark. First of all, let me say this : I don't know if Mr, Toledano is a Communist. He has been said to be a Communist. He has denied it. I talked with Mr. Toledano after the meeting that night and I thought some of his remarks rather interesting, in any case. The fact that I made this remark in no way indicated that I agree with his particular political philosophy. We might be poles apart politically. The introductory remark was a gracious remark to a man who might differ with me politically and philosophically and socially and every other way. Nevertheless, he is a world figure. I am a nobody. I am a little fish in the stream. Consequently, Mr. Toledano is in the "big league," speaking in the vernacular. He is a man of world prominence. I am a nobody. That is simply the sense I used the term in. Mr. McCann. I think that is adequate. Let's go ahead. Did you on March 9, 1947, at a mass meeting of the strikers held in the Olympic Auditorium speak from the same platform with Philip Connelly, secretary of the CIO in Los Angeles, Averil Berman, and Herbert Sorrell? Father Dunne. I did, and I have spoken from the same platform on other occassions. Mr. McCann. When were you ordained a priest? Father Dunne. On June i9, 1936.