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1136 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Then in their directive itself, as applied to the set erectors, they said that division of work shall be put into effect immediately. Now, if that a^^reement was not in effect—or, I mean, was in effect— they would have said they would continue it in effect. They prob- ably knew it was not in effect, because they said that agreement en- tered into years ago was when there was no feuding, and when all the crafts were attempting to cooperate to the best interests of the studios so that the studio work would not be retarded. They put that agree- ment into effect immediately. I construed that very clearly as the approach that the committee finally decided to make in solving this dispute. Mr, McCann. Now, this is the thing that is rather interesting to me. In reply to my question, "I don't mean the award now; I am speaking of the full council," you said [reading] : All they did was to confirm the award made by the three-man committee. The three-man committee went back and dug into the archives of the American Federation of Labor and found this agreement in 1926 where this work was allocated. Mr. Kahane. That is right; that is what their report states. Mr. McCann. All right, sir. Now, isn't it a fact that the work division had never been that the lATSE had charge of erection of sets on stages ? Mr. Kahane. Isn't it a fact that agreement of 1926 was never put into effect ? Is that your question ? Mr. McCann. Yes. Mr. Kahane. I say, I understand that in some of the studios be- tween "26 and '33 the set-erection work on stages was done by lATSE. Now, I think that from '33 on, at all of the studios, that work was done by the carpenters' union. Mr. McCann. From'33 on? Mr. Kahane. Yes, sir. Mr. McCann. It was done by the carpenters' union ? Mr. Kahane. That is my understanding. Mr. McCann. Well, the testimony, whether it is true or false, that we received, I believe, through Mr. Doherty, was that it was not until months after they made the decision based upon the 1926 agree- ment that they ascertained the agreement had never been in effect, and that when they accepted the 1926 agreement it was their impres- sion that the 1926 agreement had been in effect in the studios previously. Do you recall his testimony to that effect ? Mr. Kahane. Yes, I do; and I was puzzled by his testimony just as I am puzzledT by many other changes that were made in that directive after it was handed down, sir. Mr. McCann. May I read to you, then, from the testimony given by Mr. Walsh before the three-man committee in Hollywood, on Saturday, December 8,1945 : Committeeman Birthright. They entered into this thing in 1925? Brother Walsh. That's right. That's what they call it—the 1926 agreement. Now, omitting a part of the long discussion to get to the heart of it: That is signed by the local unions out here and signed by our local out here also. This is the agreement that we worked under from 1926 until we went on strike in 1933.