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)

506 MOTIOX-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES (c) The building, manufacture, and maintenance of all flats, cut-outs, profile backings, hard wall backings, etc., which are made of wood or wood substitutes, also wild walls, units, drapery frames, diffusing, tarpaulin frames, etc., floors and sidewalls for tents (emergency repairs excepted). ((/) Installing, maintenance, and striking of all permanent and set hardware. Cutting, storing, grinding, and glazing of all glass. (e) The laying of all track, wood, or otherwise, for the traveling of units, sets, or parts of sets within scope of the camera (camera and dolly tracks excepted, floor or overhead). (/) The moving, loading, and unloading of all sets from mill to stage or location and the moving of all sets before they have been shot. {g) The building of working scaffolds for carpenters, painters, plasterers, electricians, tinners, etc. (the assembling of patented or tubular scaffolds excepted ) . (/() Men are to work with other craftsmen involved in their respective jurisdictions in all work connected with high lifts. (i) The laying out, placing, setting, erection, or building of all sets, interior and exterior, at studio or on location, new work, revamp or retake and all foundations, underpinning, flooring, bracing, and nailing together regardless of kind of material used. Fitting and hanging of all sash, doors, and gates, stairs and hand railing, frames for ceilings, fit and placed, mill, trim, and carpenter work on same. (;■) The operation and maintenance of all woodworking machinery in the making of all furniture, fixtures, trim, etc. All saw filing. (k) The manufacture and/or maintenance of all practical household and/or ofiice furniture and the making and/or maintenance of all crating for furniture and machinery — fixtures, or other articles for .shipping, hauling, or storage. il) The manufacturing, remodeling, building, and maintenance of such articles, items, and objects listed in this section which are made in whole of wood or wood substitutes, also those sections or parts of sections which are made of wood or wood substitutes when made in connection with other materials. Stationary and rolling platform for sets, parts of sets, and units. Airplanes, boats, ships, boxes, benches, bridges, bars and back bars, casements, cupboards, cabinets, built in seats, derricks, docks, doors, dredges, elevators and cabs, excalators, flumes, fences, fixtures, diving boards, gang planks and grills, gallows, hitching posts and rails, hoppers, hurdles, lampposts, locomotives and tenders, lockers, logs, looms, machinery, meat blocks and boards, mill wheels, mangers, phone booths, platforms, pontoons, pulpits, pyramids, railway cars and coaches, rocks, rafts, reed and rattan work, radio towers, ramps, slides, shutters, sash, signs, signals, sluice gates, submarines, streetcars, showcases, shelves, tanks, troughs, trailers, towers, tombstones, built-up tree trunks, telescopes, stables, stalls, setting of seats, trams, turrets, turntables, wind mills, winches, water chutes, wood letters, any item or objects which are now or may be used in the future in the studios which are here omitted shall be made in accordance with conditions covering above-named articles and items. (w) Wood carving, both hand and machine. The removal and replacing of portable floors, waterproofing of sets, floors, tanks, rivers, and units, etc. {n) Reed and rattan work when used as set, parts of sets, furniture, fixtures, trim, etc. (o) .Jurisdiction of coordinators, technical men (often referred to as unit or follow-up men). (p) Breakaways: such sets, parts of sets, units, items, and articles as herein listed and specified shall be built by the carpenters except those parts or portions which are to be made for the purpose of breakaway. (r/) The application of all brick, stone, tree bark, molding, etc.. to any or all of the articles, items, set. or units herein listed as may be required which is made of "staff" or other substitutes. (r) The laying out and building of all interior or exterior "mountains," concaves, or terraces. (s) The aging of all sets, items, units, and articles within our own jurisdiction. (t) All such work that comes under this jurisdiction which is to be done during "shooting" is to be done by carpentei's. Either stand-by or called. in) None of the above allocated work is to be built or done in the studio or on location by outside men, nor shall it be contracted to outside persons or firms.