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)

540 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Mr. McCaxx. All right. I want to read, Mr. Chairman, two or three excerpts from these records. There is a special meeting called on April 4, 11)46. and the purpose is — To elect delesates to repi-esent local union No. 940 in conference of studio unions. A. V. Scliiavone and Ralph Haley elected as delegates. I'uipose : To elect a negotiating committee for the purpose of obtaining contract and agreement with the motion-picture producers. J. R. Burdick. T. B. Conley, Fred I'aige, ami William Donovan elected. At the general election .June 12 and 13, 1046. William Donovan and A. Y. Schiavone elected delegates to Conference of Studio Unions. Now, Mr. Chairman. I want to I'ead then a short section of the minutes of the September 8, 1946, meeting: Representatives' reports: International Representative Cambiano and Business Agent Skelton gave comprehensive reports and review of the acceptance of <lirective clarification and .iurisdiction of local union No. 046 in tlie motion-picture industries that was handed down b.v the executive council of the American Federation of Labor at its session recently held in Chicago. Now. that is all I want to read at this time from these excerpts, but I would like to have the full minutes photostated for the record. Mr. Skeltox". I Avill request that that be done. (The minutes referred to Avill be found in the files of the committee.) Mr. McC.vxx'. After the original directive came down in December of 1945, I would like to have a record — if you can't answer it personally—as to the number of times, if any, that a committee of the carpenters attempted to negotiate on the directive with the producers. Do you get that i That is one thing. Mr. Skeltox. It seems to me. too. at one meeting I told the producers tliat we were going to work under the directive as handed down under protest, and that we woidd use every legal means that we had at our disposal to see that a clarification of the directive was handed down. And I vigorously pit)tested to our international president, and from that, as has been rejiorted here. Dan Flanagan was sent in here to investigate. The brief that I submitted to him is in evidence here, and explained to him how it came about, of the meetings we had, and so forth. Out of that, at the next executive-board meeting, came the clarification. As far as I can remember at the present time, we had only the one meeting with the producers after the clarification had been handed down. Aiul that was on September 11, when Mv. Cambiano and the negotiating conmiittee went before the producers and asked them to ])ut into operation tlie clarification, Mr. McCanx. All right. Now, that still doesn't answer the question that is in my mind. Following the meeting of September 11, which has been termed an tdtimatmu here by the ju'oducers and some of the witnesses, the lockout or the strike, whichever is correct, continued until the present time. Now, then, starting about September 23? Mr. Skef-ton. That is right. I was going to sa}' Mr. McCaxn. Now, what T am driving at is, how many times from September 23, 1946, to the present time has the conference of studio unions, representing 946, or 946 as an entity in itself, sought a conference with the producers for the purpose of working out the problems that existed ?