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868 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
constitution and bylaws and everybody will be given their just day in court.
]\Ir. McCann. Here is another question that starts with the word and. And reinstate all card liolders and permit members that are on the lock-out '?
Mr. Walsh. We have consistently begged all card holders of local G83 to go to work. The procedure has been set up and all they have to do is apply at our office now.
Mr. McCann. Would you demand back dues and assess fines against them?
Mr. Walsh. All we would ask them to do is comply with the constitution and bylaws of the local union, which they were affiliated with, and the international constitution and bylaws.
Mr. McCann. Did you send out an order to all projectionists to stand by for a strike call ? This question is by Mr. Sorrel 1.
Mr. Walsh. When?
Mr. McCann. When, Mr. Sorrell?
Mr. Sorrell. I don't know the exact date. What caused me to ask that question was you were asking him about the threat to the studios. I read the letter, but I don't know what date it was.
Mr. Price. The 1945 strike or 1946 strike ?
Mr. Sorrell. I don't know. I remember reading the letter. I thought it was significant. There was a letter sent out ; I read it. Excuse me.
Mr. Kearns. We can't very well ask the question when it isn't specific enough.
Mr. McCann, I will ask this : Did you send out an order to all projectionists to stand by for a strike call before the 1946 strike which started, I think you say, the 23d of September or in that period?
Mr. Walsh. No, sir.
Mr. McCann. 1946. Did you do that before the 1945 strike?
Mr. Wat,s]t. Yes, sir.
Mr. McCann. That was prior then to March 12, 1945 ?
Mr. WxVLSii. I believe it was.
Mr. McCann. Do scenic artists belong to your union in New York or in Chicago? This is by Mr. Sorrell.
IMr. Walsh. We have no scenic artists in the lATSE at the present time, excepting the ones that may be now working in the studios here.
Mr. McCann. That question, too, was by Mr. Sorrell. These questions are asked by Mr. McMahon. Approximately how many jobs did the lATSE lose as a result of the December 1945 directive?
Mr. Walsh. I don't think I know the figure on that, but the very important thing was not the jobs there so must as the loss of jurisdiction.
Mr. McCann. Well, hadn't you already lost the jurisdiction with respect to the scenic artists, anyway, the set dressers?
Mr. Walsh. The scenic artists weren't in dispute.
Mr. McCann. Set dressers.
Mr. Walsh. The set dressers, we had some of them and the set decorators had some of them. If we had the jurisdiction — it had been allotted to us by the American Federation of Labor we would be able to organize them all, which we have now.
Mr. McCann. Hadn't the NLRB already ruled against the lATSE prior to the decision of December 26, 1945, that the set dressers, I believe