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)

550 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES some 2,000 carpentors, -vtIio are members of local 946, and who have worked in the studios. I appreciate it also for their families who have been the innocent victims of all this trouble. Now, Mr. Chairman, may I ask your consideration of these questions : While you have planned to bring about an equitable and just settlement in Holh'wood, have 3'ou ever been informed that the lATSE was planning during all of these hearings to apply to the National Labor Relations Board, or that they had applied to the Board, for certification as bargaining agent for all "Carpenters, millwrights, woodworking machine men?'' Mr. Chairman, we feel that the carpenters have not been getting a square deal from the lATSE or the companies. I now take the liberty of asking whether you think your committee is getting a sc^uare deal. Mr. Kearns. The engineers have a little difficulty this morning with the air conditioning because of circulation, and I am going to ask that while the place is aired, we sta}^ away from these ventilators that are located in the walls, and that we clear the courtroom here for about 10 minutes, so that this air may circulate, and then we may come back again. I will ask ever^^body to leave the courtroom. (Short recess taken.) Mr. Kearns. The hearing will come to order. Mr. McCanx. Does that finish your statement, Mr. Cambiano? Mr. Cambiano. No, Mr. Chairman. Since the adjournment of this hearing last Friday, it was brought to my attention that lA's had signed an agreement with set erectors. I personally asked Mr. Charles Boren out in the hallway if such was the case, and he said yes. I would request at this time that a copy of that agreement be brought here as a matter of record. Mr. jSIcCann. INIay we ask if a copy of the agreement entered into on Thursday night will be produced? Mr. Price. Yes; I will produce one. Each studio entered into a separate one, but they are identical in terms. I presume one will be sufficient? Mr. McCann. Yes. We can have that when ? Mr. Price. I will call Mr. Boren during the noon hour, and he may be able to get it here then, and if not, during the afternoon. Mr. McCann. We will see that it goes into the record, not as an exhibit, but a part of the record. If it comes this afternoon, we will try to put it at the end of your statement, sir. Mr. Cambiano. Thank you. I am going to try to be very brief here, to show the part I personally tried to play in the interest of trying to bring peace and harmony in the motion-picture industry, so far as the carpenters were concerned. After the directive or the appointing of the three-man committee, we were asked to sit down to negotiate whatever differences there were between us. Brother Skelton or Jim Skelton went into that to some extent. I want to bring out this point here with reference to the meeting we had with the Grips local 80. because it has been said here that the international did not sign or approve that ai^reement. Now, that is not exactly correct. After we sit ii^ M-ith President AValsh and his committee and we had arrived at a satisfactory understanding, the two local groups signed the agreement. The only