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 1169 Mr. McCann. Did he advise you at that time of the probable effect of the cLarification on the studios in Hollywood? Mr. Balaban. I would not remember. I doubt that he would have, because that was not a part of Mr. Price's function. He had just moved into the Hollywood picture a few months prior to that and I do not believe was qualified at that point by reason of the short time he was out there to express any definite opinions on a matter as com- plex as the one that you have heard described which had been going on for many years. Mr. McCaxn. I believe that Mr. Freeman, formerly of Georgia, was your representative on the producers labor committee in Holly- wood; was he not? Mr. Balaban. Yes, sir. Mr. McCann. Did you receive a call from Mr. Freeman after the meeting of September 11, 1946, advising you of the developments in Hollywood on that day when Mr. Cambiano issued an ultimatum to the producers ? Mr. Balabax. Mr. Freeman did call me; yes, sir. INlr. McCaxx. He called you after that meeting? Mr. Balabax. Some time in the evening. Mr. McCax'x. Did he advise you at that time in that conversation that Mr. Cambiano had issued an ultimatum to the effect that the industry would have to put into operation the terms of the clarification which had been received of the three-man committee's directive, or else the next morning after 6 or 6: 30, whichever it was, there would be a refusal by the carpenters to work on sets which were declared "hot"? Mr. Balabax. That is substantially correct. The only difference is that the name was a new one to me until yesterday. Mr. McCaxx. You did not recall his name ? Mr. Balabax. That is right. Mr. McCaxx. But you remember the conversation ? Mr. Balabax. That is right. JNIr. McCaxx. That same day, did the other presidents in New York, to your knowledge or from their reports to you, receive calls from their representatives in Hollywood telling them of the developments there? Mr. Balabax. That I do not know, but they were on hand the fol- l(jwing morning, so they must have heard from their studio repre- sentatives. Mr. McCaxx. So on the morning of the 12th you held a meeting to decide what to do about it ? ]Mr. Balabax. Yes, sir. Mr. McCaxx. Now^ do you recall at this time—and I do not want to press your memory—who were present at the meeting on the 12th? Mr. Balabax. Frankly, I do not recall. It was a full meeting. There may not have been quite as many present as on the day before. Mr. ;M('Caxx. Who presided at that meeting? Mr. Balabax. I know we heard a great deal from ]\Ir. Johnston at that meeting. Whether he presided or not, I do not recall. Mr. McCaxx. Mr. Johnston w^as present? Mr. BxVLAbax. Yes, sir.