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)

MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 559 Mr. McCann. Well, I must be wrong. Mr. Knight. I checked that box of records we brought down, and it was not in there. Mr. Cambiano. Mr. Chairman, if you will pardon me, you raised the question of this. We presented the statement and read the prelimi]iary statement. I know that it was all here. Isn't it, Mr. Knight ? Mr. McCann. Then that was a different thing, Mr. Knight. Just a minute, let's get this straight now. Mr. Knight, for the purpose of the record, are you confident that that volume with the exhibits is still in Washington ? INIr. KxiGiiT. No ; I am not. The reason I told you what I did was Friday evening after adjournment I checked that box of records that we brought, to get some information out of it, and this file was not in that box at the time. That is the reason that I made the statement. Mr. Cambiano. Mr. Chairman, it must have taken wings and left this hall, because it was right here. It was in a cardboard box and it was handed to you. Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, I wanted to ask, we have two reporters here who are the custodians of those exhibits. I want to ask them if they have anything like that in the file. The Reporter. I will check and see. Mr. McCann. Before we pass that, I would like to know that we have this available. Now, Mr. Chairman, I think that we had better Mr. Cambiano. I can finish in 5 minutes. Mr. McCann. We might let him finish, before all of this develops here in the record. Mr, Cambiano. Well, Mr. Chairman, I want to say on behalf of the Brotherhood of Carpenters we were very much concerned about seeing this industry here back to where it rightly belongs. I know the chaos that is going on here. It is not a healthy condition, and there isn't a reason why this entire turmoil cannot be settled. I am sure that the Brotherhood of Carpenters want to see it settled, and I don't for the life of me understand why this industry can't get clown and work out a uniform agreement. We may vary in our views as to just what kind of a contract should be in this industry. I know when I first came in here we had that basic agreement. Mr. Casey over here was chairman of the producers' group and Mr. Hutcheson was chairman of the labor ^roup. We never had any trouble arriving at a settlement of our differences. Most of these meetings were held in the East, so far as wages were concerned, or anything that might have affected the industry. Of the meetings that I have attended since I have been in here none of them lasted more than 1 day. I say 1 day. We would probably start in at 10 o'clock in the morning and wind up at 1 or 2 o'clock the following morning, but they were disposed of in 1 day and our relations were good. I contend that something of that nature must be set up here again. I was in court when the Actors Guild was in there for the purpose of setting up some machinerj^ to take care of the industry. We subscribe to that, but I am of the opinion, and I put in many years at this trade, I joined the brotherhood in 1903, 44 years ago last June, and I went through practically all of the turmoils in this State in the 44 years, so I think I can speak with some authorit3^ I contended then and I con