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)

556 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Coiiiniittees were appointed, and we sat doAvn and we oaine to an understanding after a number of meetings over all the jurisdiction that we had between the two organizations. The committee had approved it, and we were waitmg for the approval of the executive board of the lATSE. The election returns were over, and the American Federation of Labor groups won, and that was the end of our jurisdictional settlement. There never was a — it was not signed by their executive board, and that was the end of the picture. Mr. JVIcCann. What do you mean by the American Federation of Labor group won ? Mr. Cambiano. All of the groups here. There was an internal group going on, as I read in here, known as the CIO, and so forth, and we were out to keep the industry from going into their hands. Mr. McCann. I see the point ; yes. Proceed. Mr. Cambiano. And the results of that, of our negotiation, simply died at that point. Mr. McCann. When you destroyed one enemy, you created two more ; is that right ? Mr. Cambiano. That is right, and being a good fellow, we got the results from it. Mr. Kearns. That was all within the brotherhood ? Mr. Cambiano. Yes. Mr. Kearns. That is what we have to bring out here. Mr. McCann. When they finished fighting outside, they went back into their own fight ; that is what I mean. Mr. Cambiano. The letter which is on that page was with the intention of trying to eliminate the existing controversy in the industry. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, through J. F. Cambiano, international representative, protested any infringement on the jurisdiction in the studio producers. At approximately the same time, a copy of a telegram sent to the producers committee and a copy of the telegram to the president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners on July 28, 1939, are submitted as exhibit No. 4, to demonstrate conclusively that the reorganization within the lATSE at that time involves a matter entirely apart from the claim on the work jurisdiction of the LTnited Brotherhood, we submit as exhibit No. 5 a copv of a letter to the A. F. of L. president, William Green, dated July '9, 1939. This letter is a report from Mr. J. W. Buzzell, acting as Mr. Green's representative in the lATSE matter. This report combined with Mr. Buzzell's letter to the United Brotherhood, exhibit No. 3, demonstrates conclusively that there was no intention to change the trade autonomy of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in the motion-picture industry. These exhibits demonstrate further that no approval was given by the American Federation of Labor which in any way changes the agreement between the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and the lATSE, dated July 9, 1921. After Propertymen's Local No. 44 of the lATSE was chartered in 1939, the lATSE, through its local, began a program of gradual encroachment on the work jurisdiction of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in the motion-picture industry. This program of encroachment has never been approved by the American Federation of Labor, and has not been the subject of an