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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 611
Mr. DeLuca. Well, I had an increase, but never did receive it; always promised.
Mr. McCann. You had a salary of $150 a week?
Mr. DeLuca. Yes.
Mr. McCann. All right. Now, did you have under you a Mr. Hill ?
Mr. DeLuca. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCann. And what was Mr. Hill's job?
Mr. DeLuca. Well, some studios called them coordinators. We called them follow-up men.
Mr. INIcCann. Did you have any conversation with Mr. Hill on the morning of September 23, 1946?
Mr. DeLuca. I imagine so.
Mr. McCann. Will you tell us what took place at that time ?
Mr, DeLuca. In regards to what?
Mr. McCann. In regard to the carpenters on the job.
Mr. DeLuca. Well, it seemed like everybody knew what was going to happen, what was coming on. I was told to get a foreman and seven men and send them on a set, to go to work.
We didn't have a set ready, so I made one ready by 468 set erectors.
Mr. Kearns. Wliat do you mean you made one ready ?
Mr. DeLuca. It seemed at the particular time we didn't have much to do on the stages for the carpenters, so I was told to get one ready and to send the carpenters out. I got the set erectors on the stage to start work on the set. I got the carpenters over there with a foreman. The steward was over there and declared the set hot.
Mr. McCann. And then on that morning Mr. Hill testified that about 10 : 30 Mr. McCausland with Don DeLuca came into their office. Do you recall that ?
Mr. DeLuca. Well, I had been with Mr. McCausland until about 7 o'clock that evening.
Mr. McCann. At what hour in the morning did you send these carpenters in to work on this set you had had the set erectors work on so as to make it a hot set ?
Mr. DeLuca. I imagine between 7 and 8 o'clock a. m.
Mr. McCann. Now, then, he quotes you as telling the boys — and I assume they were carpenters — "You boys put on your overalls and go over on stage 16 and finish that set"; is that correct?
Mr. DeLuca. No, sir; not stage 16. I got the foreman and told him to go on stage 12. .
Mr. McCann. Stage 12 instead of stage 16 ?
Mr. DeLuca. That is right.
Mr. McCann. Stage 12 was the one that was hot you sent the men to?
Mr. DeLuca. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCann. Would you mind telling us in your own words because I find that this statement by Mr. Hill is rather long and I can't refer to just one sentence, will you tell us in your own words what took place that morning from the beginning to the end ?
Mr. DeLuca. Well, I was told to get this set going by the set erectors, and get the carpenters and send them over there with a foreman and so many men. I did.
And I met the steward there. He declared the set hot. They came back in. I reported to my superior that they wouldn't work, so from