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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 539
Another reason why we feel that way is we know that in many cases where the studios kept their enii)hjyees on Satunhiy and Snnday overtime, to write ont the checks for the carpenters, and the Uttle time that they had worked on this particular da}^, they were paid off in cash and put off the lots.
Many of our men — and we have hundreds of affidavits, that they were not asked to work on any hot sets — were just simply handed their check and said, That's it."
For those reasons we feel we were locked out. We never called a strike. We did, however, have a meeting on the 25th of September at the American Legion Stadium, and at that time we agreed to establish picket lines.
From that time on it is more or less an open book, until— there is one other thing I would like to speak about, and that is, in July of 1946 there was a 2-day strike. We felt that that was a strike for wages and a contract. And at the Beverly Hills meeting, which has been told about here before, we were given an interagreement hj the producers, of which we were working under; that agreement was for 2 years, and anything that wasn't in that agreement was contrary to the terms of our last agreement with the studios. This was to be in full force and effect, of the terms we were to work under.
As I understood the agreement at that time, the interagreement was made there and the boys returned to work the following day. There was no serious thing happened in the studios. We were working under the interagreement where we received a 25-percent increase in wages, retroactive until January 1, 1946. And we were Avorking under that agreement and so far as I know it was in full force and effect until the time we were locked out.
Mr. Kearns. The reason I questioned you is, I am interested in 3'our application of the definition of the term "lock-out."
Mr. Skelton. Well, the superintendent — I will just name one instance— the superintendent at Pathe. they told the men there was plenty of work to do if they wanted to work.
Some 30 or 35 — I don't know the exact number of our men — returned to Pathe's 40 acres the following morning for the purpose of going to work, and were not permitted to go to work. And that and other things that have happened, we definitely feel that our people have been locked out.
We never took any strike action, other than to agree or decided that we would establish a iDicket line as a protest against the producers locking us out, and other people were taking — were taken in and being put on our jobs.
Mr. McCann. Now, Mr. Chairman, I would like to refer to the minutes which have been furnished to me by Mr. Cobb. I would like to make a request of Mr. Skelton, if he will do so, to have a photostat made of each of these minutes referring to your strike, from the very beginning here to the end.
I don't want excerpts, I want originals. And they will be received as an exhibit for reference purposes.
Now. this is, of your own knowledge, an accurate record, is it, of 3" our minutes?
Mr. Skeltox. As far as I know, Mr. Counsel, that is. And the secretary of our local told me that was it.