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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1139 involved in the case. They made that admission right in Los Angeles. In other words, their time was too limited to begin with to ever get into it. Go ahead. Mr. McCann. Mr. Kahane, in your testimony before us, you made the following statement: On and after September 12, 11)40, the producei's continued to assign the work of set erection to tlie members of lATSE in accor(hin(,'e witli tlie December award and following that date studio carpenters wht) were assigned to work on these sets refused to work and were requested to leave the premises for failure to do assigned work. By September 2r», 1946, virtually every studio carpenter who was a member of the carpenters' union and was employed by one of the major pro- ducers, had left work because of this jurisdictional dispute. Now, did I ask you or did I not ask you when you were on the witness stand, whether there was concerned action by the studios on this point? Mr. ILvHAXE. I do not believe you questioned me at all about what happened in September of 1946, and I would like to be questioned about that, Mr. McCann. Mr. McCann. I feel at this time you should give us the benefit of your position in that regard. Mr. Kahane. I should like to do so. Mr. McCann. I have a feeling after reading this record that you were not entirely frank with us. Of course, we knew nothing about your plans or your programs when you made this statement. You did not tell us all of the facts. Now, I want you to go into that and let the committee have the benefit of it. Mr. Kahane. I don't know what you mean by saying I was not frank. Mr. McCann. I feel you were not completely frank in giving us all of the information that was essential. Mr. Kahane, I cannot accept that. I made a statement for over an hour. I subjected myself to examination on the part of all counsel. I held myself available for a number of days while the hearing was on and I answered every question that was put to me. ISIr. ^NIcCann. I think you were an excellent witness, but I am just asking now that you go into the details of how you did it. ]Mr. Kahane. I welcome the opportunity. I was chairman and spokesman for the labor committee, so I was present at all meetings. We start back on September 11, at -1 o'clock in the afternoon. We are visited by a delegation consisting of Mr. Cambiano, the inter- national representative of the carpenters, and some of the officers of that union. We are told that as of 6 o'clock the following morning, if anj lATSE men work on any set, the carpenters wnll consider that set a "hot" set and members of the carpenters' union w^ill not work on it. We asked for more time. They said, "There will be no more time. As of 6 o'clock at the first shift tomorrow morning, this order goes into effect." I call your attention to tlie fact that for 8 months after the Miami meeting, at which this decision was confirmed, the carpenters appar- ently had agreed to allow the set erectors of the lATSE to do that work and that work had been going on for 8 months before this September 11 date. On that date we are given a few hours' notice that we must switch over.