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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1255 I say this on my responsibility as a member of the bar and as counsel for the lATSE. If there is any proof of any kind whatsoever that since November of 1941, when Kichard F. Walsh was elected president of the lATSE, that there is any racketeering, any crookedness, any of the things which seem to me implicated in the terminology of the previous witness, this is the place to present the proof, and we ask and challenge that it be done. I did that in Los Angeles; I do that again now. Congressman Hart- ley wrote me to the effect that that matter, the entire situation, would be gone into somewhere, somebody ought to go into it. I will read the communication to you if you want me to. It is a telegram sent by Richard F. Walsh ]\Ir. Owens. You mentioned Mr. Hartley. Mr. Levy. It is to Mr. Hartley and Mr. Hartley's response. I have them both here. On March 11, i0l7, Richard F. Walsh, international president of the International Alliance, Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Can- ada, sent the following Western Union telegram to Hon. Fred A. Hartley, chairman. House Labor Committee, Washington, D. C.: Having taken note of publicity given to the testimony of one Oscar Shatty before yonr committee, I want to urge you to complete the investigation so that all the facts may be ascertained and made known to the public. The one-sided testimony given by Shatty is misleading and prejudicial to the thousands of loyal workers who have refused to surrender to the strong arm and subversive element in Holly- wood with whom Schatte is associated— Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, at this point I want to stop him for this reason Mr. Levt. I did not notice that you stopped Mr. Sorrell. Mr. Kearxs. Wait just a minute, Mr. Counsel. Mr. McCann. I want to call attention to the fact that Mr. Schatte's testimony was received by the full committee of the House of Repre- sentatives involving legislation on the National Labor Relations Act and was not received by this subcommittee. I think any reference to the testimony of Mr. Schatte before this subcommittee is within the exception that you have ruled and that we should not put that tele- gram nor the answer of Mr. Hartley in the record, and I so move. Mr. Levy. You do not want the Mr. McCann. Now, just a moment. I want to have a ruling by the chairman. Mr. Levy. I will be pleased to give it to the press, sir, if you do not want to put it in the record. Mr. Kearns. Oh, well, you have that privilege. We do not want to hear about that. ISIr. 0^\^:NS. The chairman has not made his decision. Mr. Levy. I am sorry. Mr. Owens. Wait for the decision; you are a judge, in fact. Mr. Levy. Was. Mr. Kearns. What is the purpose of reading the telegram ? Mr. LE^^. The purpose of reading the telegram is to show that Mr. Walsh stated that the statements given at the hearing in 1947 with respect to the Hollywood situation—and that is all we were referring to—were not true and he asked for a thorough investigation of those charges, and Mr. Hartley replied that there would be such an investi- gation by this committee.