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 433 I omit that. "Is it just to picket during a strike? "Yes, provided it is peaceful picketing. Picketing is merely dramatizing the right of freedom of speech and of assembly. If it means violence, disorder or injury to anyone, it is unjust." Mr. Kearns. There is no answer required. Mr. McCann. No answer. Mr, Kearns. Otherwise, they will be put in the record. We will place them in the record, Mr. LuDDT. Why don't you do that, it is all right with me. Mr. McCann, I am passing all the questions on page 2, That is, we will show them in the record here, but not actually asked. "What is the practical danger in every strike?" "The danger of radical, unprincipled leaders or individuals controlling its technique." Do you agree with the foregoing quoted statement? "What is the Government's duty toward radical leadership?" "While all men may justly strive to better their conditions, neither justice nor the common good allows any individual to seize the property of another, to lay violent hands thereon. While the vast number of workers prefer to better themselves by honest means, there are some who are guided by vicious principles. Their main purpose is to rouse their fellows to disorder, violence, and revolution. Government should intervene to restrain such firebrands, to save the woricers from being led astray ; and to protect lawful owners from spoliation." Do you agree with the foregoing quoted statement? "Did Leo XIII warn against the false leaders of labor?" "Yes," in Christian Democracy (1896), he urged the clergy and all intertested in the labor problem to warn workers 'to beware of sedition and seditious persons wherever found, and to hold inviolable the rights of every one." Do you agree with the foregoing quoted statement? On page 22, the following question and answer appears : "Did any other Pope show his anxiety in this regard?" "Yes, Pius X, in 1903, speaking on Christian social action, stated : 'The obligations of the worker are these : To perform completely and faithfully the work freely and equitably agreed upon; not to injure owners in their property or persons ; to abstain from acts of violence even in the defense of their own rights ; and not to make their demands by disturbing the public peace.' " Do you agree with the foregoing quoted statement? On page 23, the following question and answer appears: "What is the jurisdictional strike?" "A strike caused by a dispute between two unions concerning exclusive jurisdiction over the workers. It is wrong. It unjustly harms management, the public, and even the workers themselves. It is fatal to the interests of sound imionism." Do you agree with the foregoing quoted statement? I will start to read again now, [Reading :] Do you believe that the conduct of the strikers in the fall of 1946 at the studios, insofar as it related to mass picketing and violence, was justified? Father Dunne. You are asking that question ? Mr. McCann, Yes ; I ask that. Father Dunne. I think I can only answer that at some length. The conduct of the pickets during the fall of 1946 does not — is not a blanket pattern Mr. Kearns. I have some questions, too. It is going to take too long here to finish this before the noon hour. I have to get back here for a very important meeting, so we will finish with this at a later time. 67383— 48— vol. 1 29