We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1091 JNIr. Rathvon. Eastei- of last year. Mr. McCann. Easter of 1947? Mr. Rathvon. Yes. Mr. McCann. What was the issue at the Easter meeting in 1947 ? Mr. Rathvon. The main issue discussed at that meeting was the pending contract with the Actors GuihI. ]\rr. McCanx. Did you have a discussion of the strike in Hollywood at tliat time? Mr. Rathvon. Some prospect of a strike; yes. Mr. McCann. AVill you tell us what took ]>lace at that meeting with respect to that strike ? We are not interested \tith. respect to the actors. Mr. Rathvon. We were mainly concerned at that time with the problems with negotiating with some of the carpenters and possibly some of the other unions, and we decided at that meeting to do so. Mr. McCann. Who was present at that meeting, if j^ou recall ? JNIr. Rathvon. There were a great many present. I understand from the testimony this morning you are to be given a list, and I would rather try not to remember the twenty-odd people. Mr. jNIcCann. It was decided at that time you would try to nego- tiate a contract with the striking carpenters? Mr. Rathvon. Yes. JVIr. McCann. What if anything was done thereafter, Mr, Rathvon ? My. Rathvon. It was then in the hands of our labor man, Mr. Boren, and he carried on from that i^oint. Mr. McCann. You don't know what action, if any, Mr. Boren has taken since that time? Mr. Rathvon. I suggest you would get that more clearly from Mr. Boren, except that I do know he has carried on as he was instructed to do. JNIr. McCann. What other meeting have j^ou attended of the presi- dents in Xew York, Mr. Rathvon ? Mr. Rathvon. The other meeting I attended was the meeting in Hollywood where Mr. Johnston in 1945 undertook to negotiate with motion-picture companies. Mr. McCann. That was before the October meeting in Cincinnati ? Mr. Rathvon. Yes. ]Mr. IMcCann. Tell us what took place at that meeting. Mr. Rathvon. That is the meeting which has been described many times and which Mr. Johnston took up again this morning, where he suggested that he miglit serve in settling the strike. After discussion with the presidents and others there, we agreed that he should try. He was authorized by all of us to proceed. Mr. JNIcCann. And he held that authorization, if I recall correctly, imtil June 1947, when he surrendered it; is that correct? Mr. Rathvon. I believe that was the date, but I would not like to commit myself, because I am not sure. I\Ir. McCann. Wliat other meetings of the presidents have you at- tended? !Mr. Rathvon. Those are the only two of the several meetings wh^ch you have asked testimony on here that I attended. Mr. McCann. Did you attend any meeting with the presidents in New York City after August 16, 1946, and before October 1, 1940? Mr. Rathvon. No,