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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 887
Mr. KEARNg. That is right,
Mr. McCann. I assume Mr. Brewer must have some authority from his president.
Mr. Brewer, in connection with the strike of 1945 you had no connection whatsoever with that prior to the beginning of that strike, did you ?
Mr. Brew ER. I had one assignment.
Mr. McCann. What was that?
Mr. Brewer. That was an assignment in connection with the disputes with the machinists. I did attend one meeting called by the Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor in comiection with the set decorators' affair.
Mr. McCaxn. When and where was that ?
Mr. Brewer. Well, the first meeting which I had was at the New Orleans convention of the American Federation of Labor, in November of 1944.
I attended that convention as a delegate from my own State. President Walsh was there, and it had been decided that I was going to work for the lATSE as soon as I got my release from the War Production Board.
So he asked me to set in on the conferences which took place there. We had some conferences with Mr. Harvey Brown and Mr. Wayne, as Mr, Wajnie has testified. He testified to some conferences, and I sat in on those conferences.
Mr. ;McCanx. Those conferences were held at the international's meeting in New Orleans in the fall of 1944?
Mr. Brewer. That is correct.
Mr. McCANiSr. You had nothing more to do with the development of this strike until you arrived here on the 12th of March 1945, which was the day the strike began ; is that correct ?
Mr. Brewer. No ; I had one meeting here, as was testified to.
yh\ McCaxx. Let's have that.
Mr. Brewer. Yes. You see. President Brown and President Walsh agreed they would each appoint a representative to come out here and see if they could resolve this dispute between the machinists. Inasmuch as I was going to handle the affairs, that is, I was going to be his representative and I had sat in on the conferences, I got permission through President Walsh's request from my superior in Washington to take leave of absence and come out here and handle that particular conference.
I think that is quite important. If you would like for me to, Mr. Counselor, Mr. Chairman, I will give you the story as I recall it.
Mr. McCanx. Yes. I would like to hear it. What was that?
Mr. Brewer. As Mr. Wayne testified, we came out here, and we had this meeting between Mr. Roy Brown, Mr. Wayne, Mr. Carl Cooper, and myself. We were discussing the question of the settlement of the dispute at the ISIetro-Golclwyn-Mayer studios, which involved, as I recall, only five men.
Before I came out from Washington to attend this meeting. President Walsh had told me that he wanted to get that dispute out of the way and that I was to lean over backward to try to settle it up. So as was testified by Mr. Wayne
Mr. McCann. Were those five men members of the lAM?