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434 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, may I say one word in regard to these questions? Several of them, as I have indicated, I hardly feel are appropriate, but we want to prevent any representative of any group here from feeling that we are shutting them off from a full presentation of their evidence. I feel apologetic in asking some of the questions. I feel I must yield to counsel's desires.
Mr. Kearns. We will recall Father Dunne to the stand at the time I tell him. Now I want to make this announcement : I am going to call what I term an executive session at 2 p. m. today of all those who visited the studios with me yesterday. I mean the representative groups of labor and their associates. I would like to have the counsel of these various groups appear.
I would very much like to have Mr. Knight be present. I would like Mr. Boren to be there. I would like Mr. Casey, because of his past experience in the industry, to be present.
The purpose of this meeting is so I can be afforded the opportunity of discussing with them some things that I observed yesterday and a word or two I would like to leave with them over the week end, before we probably get into the factual testimony on the labor picture from the labor standpoint.
We will end this executive session by 5 minutes to 3 and continue with the open hearing at 3 p. m., with Father Dunne the first witness.
We stand adjourned, the whole assembly, until 3 o'clock. The executive session, which I am sorry will not include anybody but those mentioned, will meet at 2.
(At 12 : 05 p. m., a recess was taken until 3 p. m. of the same day.)
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Mr. Kearns. Well, gentlemen, I asked you to come in here this afternoon to give you an idea of what I have observed, knowing you since I have been here, and also because of your tour together yesterday in the studios, and the purpose of this meeting is in no way to be misunderstood.
I do not have you here to argue about anything, nor do I bring you here to have an interdiscussion among yourselves. I don't want that. I just merely wanted to expound to you a few of my theories about this type of thing, and you can take that for what it is worth.
I think one thing which should be remembered here is the fact that the reason we have had many of these investigations throughout the country is because we on the labor committee have felt that the public have a right to know why disputes like this one, those that we have had all throughout the country, exist, who is to blame for it, and after all, the public itself eventually are the real group of people that suffer from it, besides the worries and cares that come to the men themselves or the industry where there are strikes involved.
I have always been a very forceful exponent of labor. I have worked all my life since the time I was a kid. My father gave me $25 to go to college with, and I think that is the last dollar I ever had anyone give me, and I worked my way through college. I have always worked.
I have the greatest respect for unions. I think that the unions and organization through unions have done more for the industrial growth