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)

MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 903 Mr. McCann. Did you inform Mr. Kahane that your instructions to man the companies means furnish painters and carpenters, and so forth ? Mr, Brewer. Will you read that again, please? Mr. McCann. Did you inform Mr. Kahane, prior to September 23, 1046, that your instructions to man the companies means furnish painters, carpenters, and so forth ? Mr. Brewer. I mialit have, I don't recalL Mr. McCann. Prior to September 2-3? Mr. Brewer. I don't recall any specific statement, but that was our position, tliat if they wouldn't work on the sets we would. Mr. ]\IcCann. "Were you at a meeting of the producers labor committee held in its board room on Thursday, September 12, 1946, when Mr. Kahane explained the situation which the producers found themselves in and read the letters recently received from the carpenters and the producers' reply to the carpenters, at which time Mr. Kahane outlined the two courses the producers could follow? Mr. Breaver. I believe that is the meeting Mr. Walsh attended. Mr. McCann. I can assure you the meeting ]SIr. Walsh attended was August 22. You said you didn't attend any meeting between that time and afterward. Mr. Breaver. Well, what I said was that I remembered meeting once on this particular matter, and I remembered a further telephone conversation with Mr. Freeman. Now, as I said, there were meetings, we were meeting, we were having a lot of meetings, and there may have been another meeting in there. Mr. McCann. There may have been one more meeting? Mr. Brewer. There may have been, yes. Mr. McCann. At that time did Mr. Kahane say that the producers' decision on what they would do depended upon what your. Brewer's position was, as to furnishing them with men? IVIr. Brewer. He might have. Mr. McCann. He might have said that to you? Mr. Breaver. Yes. I don't recall specifically. He might very well have said it. Mr. McCann. Did 3'ou reply that you would do everything to keep the studios open and you would supply the necessary help ? Mr. Breaat5R. Well, that was our position from the beginning, that if they refused to work on the sets, because our people erected them, we would supply such help as we could to see the sets were made and the studios operated. Mr. McCann. Did they confer Avith you prior to discharge of these men with respect to what your several unions of the lATSE would do? Mr. Brewer. As to whether or not they would follow the position of the international ? Mr. McCann. Yes. Mr. Brewer. I think they asked us, in the course of these meetings, whether or not we thought our unions would go along and President Walsh testified that he would meet with the unions, and he did meet with them. Mr. McCann. Now, that was back in August then ?