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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 979
After we had all signed the waiver, I believe, approximately six or seven, even eight of our men were thrown a bone. They got a day's work or 2 day's work.
Mr. McCaxx. Let's forget the lawsuit. We want to know what we can do for you.
Mr. DuMONT. I thought I had gotten away from the lawsuit by saying we were given a couple of days' work. The business was so unprecedentedlj^ active up to about a month ago, wlien the change was — unexpectedly came, that this local 706' of the lATSE was doubling up their men while 42 of us were looking for jobs, begging to go to work, with tlie employer ready to receive us. This union doubled up their own journeymen and sent them from one studio to another.
As for example, if Warner Bros, is a little slow today and Columbia is busy, Columbia will ask for five or six journeymen from Warner Bros. So Warner Bros, have these men on their pay roll and they send them to Columbia, where they come early in the morning, about 7 o'clock, and do only an hour's work or 2 hours' work in getting out the extras and the bit players.
Then they return to their respective studio, Warner Bros. They receive two checks, a full day's check from Columbia for that hour's work, and they go back to their regular pay roll, which amounts to $35 a day, approximately; so they have drawn two checks, while we are trying to get a job.
That has been going on just recently. On top of that, they sent their apprentices — 1 believe it is a violation of their own bjdaws — apprentices who haven't been in the business a year even. They sent them over to Universal Studio, and they draw journeyman's w^ages.
After representing the permit make-up artists to the producers as qualified journeymen from 41/0 to 5 years, this local 706 of the lATSE now contends we are not qualified. Then this local certainly has been prostituting the funds of the employer. I would say definitely they must have been misrepresenting it because we have been doing qualified journeyman work of the highest skill and type that any of the best journeymen in that organization could perform.
As I stated before, of these 42 men, they have handled from 550 to 600 pictures, as I would say, practically keymen positions, which is the highest a journeyman could be assigned to in the make-up industry, next to being a department head.
Mr. Kearns. I think that is fairly established. Were you always willing to comph' with the bylaws and the constitution of that organization?
Mr. DuMONT. Yes,
Mr. Kearns. If you were given a permit?
Mr. DuMONT. Yes, sir: I certainly did.
Mr. Kearns. You didn't try to re-write their constitution or bylaws ?
Mr. DuMONT. No. We had no chance, anyway, to do anything. We were told, practically, that we couldn't talk about work, even. We were afraid to talk to one another on the phone about it. We were ordered not to go out and look for a job on any lot or our cards would be taken away.
We carried out the bylaws of that union to the letter. I don't believe I testified to this. There is not one existing complaint in 5 years against any of these men for incompetency or because they were not