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)

984 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES I said I would. I learned later on that Miss Grable had called up Mr. Hays and Mr. Hays told her she could have me but if I did the picture with her I would never get in the union. She called me and said, "I don't want to cause you any trouble," she says, "I like your work and all that. I would like to see you get in the union. I will wait until you get in the union." So we dropped it at that. Well, about a month after that I got a letter from local 706 telling me to come up to the union. And the next thing was I was told to come up there and I reported. When I got up there I discovered I had to appear in front of the executive board. I was charged with giving out publicity. Well, I denied it. I told them I had no knowledge of it. So Mr. Ben Knight — Bill Knight — came to my rescue and said if I said I didn't know anything about it, he would believe me. He had known me for a good many years. So I dropped it, and, gentlemen, to prove my point, here is a magazine. It is an August magazine, 1947. Here is a story by Ben Knight, the head of the make-up department of Twentieth Century-Fox, and here are two pictures of myself, one making up Miss June Haver and one making up Miss Betty Grable, and I have not been at Twentieth Century-Fox for over 2 years, so I prove my point that they are lying, shown by this episode. At this same meeting Mr. Ernie Parks brought up the subject about the conversation I had with Miss Grable over the telephone, and I told him the story, and then he said to me, he said, "Now, in the future, if you get a phone call from Miss Grable, I don't want you to talk to her. If she wants to talk to you, refer her to local 706." In other words, I couldn't even talk to her. I said, "All right," and I was dismissed. The next thing that came up was this rigged examination in October. Mr. Kearns. Pardon me there: On that idea, do you know Miss Grable well enough to get a letter from her to verify your statements'? Not that we don't believe you, but would she be glad to write a letter for you ? Mr. Taylor. Yes ; I think, if you subpena her, she would come, as far as that is concerned. Mr. Kearns. I am having enough box-office appeal without that. Now, I would like for the record, though, if we could have her send a letter to the committee stating that she requested your services because of your recognized ability. Do you think you could get that letter from her ? Mr. Tayi.or. Yes ; I can get it. Mr. Kearns. Thank you very much. Proceed. Mr. Taylor. Then this rigged examination came along. I went the first night to the examination and I went the second night. The following day after the examination I was called from local 706 and told that I had failed the examination. I hadn't even completed the examination. Well, I returned to the department the next morning — I had this work at Universal — and I said, "Well, gentlemen, I let you down last night." They said, "What do you mean — let us down ?" I said, "Well, I failed." Then a good operator who was a journeyman went on the telephone right in my presence, and he called that local 706 and he spoke to Mr. George Hays and he says, "They are all quite interested in hearing