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)

558 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Studio Grips Local No. 80 of the lATSE. These jurisdictional matters have been tentatively approved, and that is that grip agreement which you have already here on exhibit. I am going to explain why the two presidents did not sign it. JNow then. I don't want to go into it and read the rest of this other than to say that wt have a lot of exhibits here, we have a lot of affidavits from men here that worked in the motion-picture industry from 15 to 25 and 27 years. These men are of the highest type' of mechanics. They are professional at their trades. We have a volume here of hundreds of them, and we have picked about 60 of them because we didn't want to build this thing up so large. Those same men with the exception of maybe half a dozen are still out, and I would personally prefer that they give their side of the story, because they are the men who are working directly on the job, but 1 was concerned about having these three vice presidents before them the picture of our dispute, particularly in the mill and the prop shops. So we went to considerable trouble there to show that the type of machinery that was used over there in the mill department is identical to the machines that they may have over here that they have been using in the prop department. In other words, we wanted to make clear that all the woodworking machinery that required the skill of a carpenter or millman, the same machine required that skill on that same type of machinery on the other side. We also say here that the running of this woodworking machinery is identical to the same type of operation Ave have in our shops and mills throughout the entire area, such as our planing mills, our cabinet shops, and our boat yards and what not. We tried to make it very clear and we also pointed out that in the prop shop where they were making furniture is the types that we have in the furniture factories here in Los Angeles, not only here in Los Angeles but all over the United States. We have boat yards, Ave have cabinet shops, we have store fixture shops, we have mills, sash, and doors, all of those plants here hire members of the United Brotherhood of Car]ienters and Joiners of America and identically the type of men. Fact of the matter, most of the men that they have in the studios at some time or other were members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters during the time they Avere required to carry two cards. We brought that all out here. We Avent to some expense, we have gone into the several studios Avith our photographers for the purpose of presenting it to them. We didn't want to misrepresent anything. We Avent into two of the studios concerned, then Ave Avere called by the producers to say that the lATSE objected to any further pictures being taken and Ave stopped, but Ave had all the pictures we Avanted up until that time. Mr. McCann. May I ask, Mr. Chairman, that the statement which he has been reading to the point Avhere he stopped be received in evidence as part of our record, and that the rest of the attached volume be marked for purposes of identification? Mr. Cambiano. You have the volume here that Avas given to you by Mr. Doherty. Mr. McCann. Not according to the chairman of that committee. Mr. Kuight said that volume was not brought doAvn here. Mr. Cambiano. He handed that to you, presented that to you, Mr. Counsel. While I was here, an identical copy of this was handed to you. He handed it to you Avhile I Avas here.