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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 541
]\rr. Skfxtox. On at least six or seven times we requested meetings with the producers for that purpose.
Mr. McCann. All right. Now-, stop right there. I want a record if you have it in the minutes of the Conference of Studio Unions, of those occasions that you asked for a conference.
]Mr. Skelton. AVe liave those, and their returned answers.
iNIr. jNIcCann. We want those. Now. at some point in the evidence it seems to me, Mr. Skelton, there has been a statement that on one occasion, after many montlis, the producers did agree to meet with the representatives of the striking employees or those who were locked out. XoAv, I Avant the record of that time.
Mr. Skeltox. We have that. I don't have the exact date at present, but there was a meeting called and we received a telegram from the producers after a meetiiig had been held in New York, where Charley Boren and Mr. Freeman and Mr, ^lannix and a few others had a jueeting with what we understood to be the presidents of the companies.
Soon after their return here they sent us a telegram saying they would like to meet with us for the purpose of collective bargaining.
Mr. McCann. All right. Xow I w-ant that telegram. It may be in the record.
Mr. Skelton. We can furnish that telegram.
Mr. McCann. I understand it is in the record.
Mr. Skelton. That was sent to Mr. Cambiano.
Mr. McCann. I want the date on which it was agreed to meet with you, and I understand they did meet with you twice, is that correct?
Mr. Skelton. That is correct,
Mr, McCann. Do you recall what month that was?
Mr. Skelton. No ; I can't. It was about 2 months ago, I just don't remember the date, but I have that information here and I will get it for you before we finish.
Mr. McCann. Now^, I W' ant to ask what resulted from these two conferences you had with the producers.
Mr. Skelton. Well, there was a representative — mostl}', I would say, labor relations men — from each one of the major studios present, and the negotiating committee from 946, Mr. Cambiano, w^ent before the producers, and the conversation started off in general, "What have you got on your mind?"
Mr. Cambiano says, "Well, you called for the meeting. What have 3'ou got on your mind ?"
So they said that they would — not
Mr. McCann. Just a moment. Let me stop you there. Were you present at those meetings ?
Mr. Skelton. Yes, I was.
Mr. McCann. Go ahead. You can tell about them.
Mr. Skelton. Mr. Boren said he called us for — because he felt, if this thing was ever going to come to an end, that we would have to sit down and start talking about it. And they laid down the terms on which they could talk about it. One was that we received from President Hutcheson that he would accept the 1945 directive, and that we would have to have a contract with a no-strike clause in it.
At that particular point I recall I asked the producers if they wanted us to write a new section to the Constitution of the country, too, be