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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 649
Mr. McCausland. Instructions were to assign the men to the sets that were made hot by the 946 steward, and if they refused to perform the work, to dismiss them for refusing to perform their duties.
Mr. McCann. Was it in your studio that a special hot set was made up for the purpose of assigning the carpenters to it ?
Mr. McCausland. There was a set made hot by the carpenters.
Mr. McCann. That isn't what I mean, though, but did you arrange — did you order the gentlemen below you to create a set which would be hot so that you could assign these men to it ?
Mr. McCausland. Mj^ recollection of that is that there was a set that needed some work that would be done by carpenters for trim, which they were ordered to do work on, and that set was made hot as soon as we assigned the men by the carpenters.
Mr. ]\IcCann. Is that set 12 that has been referred to in this testimony ?
]Mr. McCausland. You mean stage 12, sir ?
Mr. McCann. Yes ; whatever you call them out there.
Mr. McCausland. I recall stage 17. I don't recall stage 12.
Mr. McCann. The point I am getting at, and I think you can answer this question re^'ardless of what set it was or anything else. In your particular studio when you received these instructions from your superior, did you have a set that was hot to put the men on or did you have to make the set hot in order to get rid of these carpenters?
Mr. McCausland. We had to assign them to a set to do trim work which the set erectors had worked on.
Mr. McCann. That's not answering my question. Did you make it hot for yourself for them to go on, or was it hot already ?
Mr. McCausland. No ; we did not make a set hot.
Mr. McCann. When you received these orders, tell us exactly what you did with respect to your orders ?
Mr. McCausland. I went to the construction department in the morning and told Mr. DeLuca, our assistant superintendent of construction there, to assign 946 carpenters to a set to perform this work, as he knew the men, the crews, and for him to make the assignments. He came back and reported to me that the men refused to do the work. I then told him that the men would have to leave the premises, and I ordered their checks made up and requested them to leave the studio.
Mr. McCann. Did you have their checks made up before the men refused to do the work ?
Mr. McCausland. No, sir.
Mr. McCann. Did you ask him to assign every member of 946 to that set during the course of the clay ?
Mr. McCausland. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCann. And did they all refuse to do it?
Mr. McCausland. Yes.
Mr. McCann. And they were all given their checks ?
Mr. McCausland. They were all tendered to them, anyhow.
Mr. McCann. Now, did you do the same thing with the painters ?
Mr. McCausland. Yes, sir ; except that in the case of the painters it was a different man who was given the assignment.
Mr. McCann. And in that way, in the course of 2 or 3 days, you got rid of all of the CSU men in your organization ?
Mr. McCausland. As I recall it, it all happened in 1 day, the 23d.
Mr. McCann. On the 23d?