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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1253 Mr. Levy. Trial lield A])ril 13, 1947: That Brothers Paul Chabdt, Keanoth Ahlberg, Henry Stahl, Walter Jolley, Cash Shockey, Fred Tuch, Sr., be fined .$20,300 each and that Brother L. S. Jorgensen be fined .$12,000. Mr. OwExs. Who made that finding? ]\[r. Levy. That was a findino- on chai-ges in the local nnion No. 644, the painters nnion, the union of which Mr. Sorrell is the head. I will react it to you, sir: Moving Picture Painters and Scenic Artists Local 644; IVIarch IS, 1947: Please be advised that the trial of charges preferred against you by Herbert K. Sorrell. business representative of local union No. 644— and so on. That is not the only thing that kept these people from going back to work. On behalf of the lATSE I filed with this committee—I do not know yet whether the committee has accepted it—the following two reports: One, official reported dated February 18,1946, of the Subcommittee on Law and Order of the Assembly Committee on Government Efficiency and Economy of the California Legislature. Mr. Kkarxs. Those were received in the record. Mr. Levy. Thank you. Two, record of terrorism against fellow-unionists by the Confer- ence of Studio Unions, Hollywood, 1945 to 1946. Three, report of violence, personal injury and property damages suffered from September 1946 to January 1947 by members of the American Federation of Labor as a result of the picket lines estab- lished by the Conference of Studio Unions. Those three documents were sent to the chairman of this subcom- mittee after the hearings closed in Los Angeles pursuant to the per- mission given by Congressman Kearns to me to file some material with him. Were they all received and put into the record ? Mr. Kearxs. Yes, sir. Mr. McCaxx. Mr. Chaii-man, just a minute. There were some documents received. I explained to Mr. Levy about 2 days ago that you. as chairman of this committee, had rulecl there should be no tes- timony received in evidence with respect to Bioff and Brown, first. Second, that there should be no evidence received in the record charging communism against people on either side. That the function of this committee was to decide a labor-relations problem and not to hear abuse against either side of a personal character. I told Mr. Levy that when I received a supplementary statement from your office, in which there were charges of communism against various people, statements that this man was a Communist, that man was a Communist, and so forth, that it was not received in the record nor reproduced and would not be under your direction. Mr. Kearxs. That is right. Mr. Oavexs. Just a moment. Does that mean. Mr. ISIcCann, there is any evidence that any of this difficulty was Communist-inspired? Would not that be received in tlie record? Mr. Levy. That is what I was told. Mr. Kearxs. Now, just a minute, Mr. Owens. I had that policy.