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)

560 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Lend now that the motion-picture industry will never — there you are. Mr. Cambiano. The motion-picture industry will never have peace or stability in tliis area until an over-all contract is gotten up by the international heads. And I don't mean the carpenters and the lA. I mean all of them. That an over-all agreement be entered into. Then the enforcement of the minor things that may happen here should be carried out and conducted through some office set-up with specific rules to carry on. Not until that time will this industry — because of all its ramifications — that agreement can be arrived at. I want to illustrate that the building industry here in May 1941. we took on the job here of working out a master contract to cover the six basic trades. When I say six basic trades I mean the trades that are employed by the general contractors, better known to us as the prime contractors. This agreement calls for the cai-penters, teamsters, iron workers, cement finishers, engineers, and laborers. Those are the crafts that are directly employed by the general contractors. We sat in there one time, at the beginning, when Los Angeles was better known as the "open-shop town,'' we sat in there and it took us about 10 months. Everybody was looking upon each other with a lot of daggers. But we finally came to an agreement. Now, we have been working under that master agreement for the past 7 years, and I am here to say that we haven't had one job stoppage since that time. Two years ago, at the request of the general contractors in the 46 northern counties, in the northern part of the State, I was requested to come in there and work out a similar one. We have been working under a master contract, the 46 northern counties, with the carpenters, in this case, and we haven't had a job stoppage under it. When I say we can sit down and negotiate two contracts, and we are in hopes next time it will be probably 58 counties, the whole State of California, which represents, from the Brotherhood of Carpenters' standpoint — we have in this area the 12 southern counties, in the neighborhood of some 46 or 50 construction locals, representing better than 76,000 carpenters. In the 46 counties in the northern part of the State we have something over 80,000 carpenters. We have a membership in California of 141,000 members of the brotherhood. If we can work out an agreement as men sitting around the conference table, for the good of the industry, the building industry, there is no good reason we can't sit around a conference table and work out a just agreement for the motion-picture industry, which is a creditable institution in this area. I want it understood that we stand ready at all times to do that very thing. I bring that out because I heard here something about it had to be done on local level. Sure, they have had a trial of it. While I am in accord that minor matters of that kind, or the operation of it should be on the local level, but it is my opinion, with my experience I have had here, if you are ever going to get anywhere, an over-all agreement will have to be entered into by all the international heads, one general contract, and set up your machinery here to carry out through. I thank you. Ml'. McCann. Why hasn't INIr. Hutcheson come out to help us do this?