Jurisdictional disputes in the motion-picture Industry : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first-session, pursuant to H. Res. 111 (1948)

1262 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES (The document referred to is as follows:) Original Basic Stxjdio Ageeement Agreement made this 29th day of November 1926, between such persons, firms, or corporations engaged in the production of motion pictures as may become parties hereto by signing this agreement or a copy liereof (hereinafter called the Producers) and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and the American Federation of Musicians (Iiereinafter called the Unions). Witnesseth: (1) The Unions shall select a committee of five members who shall be presi- dents of international or national unions afBliated with the American Federation of Labor (referred to hereinafter as the Internationals' Committee) which shall represent the Unions in questions arising between the Unions and the Producers at the several studios of the latter. (2) The Producers shall appoint a committee of five members (hereinafter called the Producers' Committee) to meet with the Internationals' Committee at regular intervals and otherwise at the joint call of the chairman. (3) The Internationals' Committee and the Producers' Committee shall .iointly hear or consider all requests or grievances or other questions affecting wages, hours of labor, or working conditions in the studios of the Producers which have failed of local adjustment, and any other matters as to which such joint con- sideration will tend to avoid misunderstandings, or will tend to improve the condition of the industry and of its employees. Any officer representing a Union, or any Producer, shall have the right to be present at a hearing in the subject matter of which the interests of his organization are specially concerned, or to bring before the committees sitting jointly any question which in his judgment requires consideration or adjustment. (4) The Internationals' Committee and the Producers' Committee acting jointly may make rules for the local adjustment of requests or grievances, for arbitration of, or hearing of, requests or grievances, before or after they are acted on by the Internationals' Committee and the Producers' Committee, or sim- ilar matters of procedure. (5) Any Union or any Producer may withdraw from this agreement upon duplicate written notice mailed to the chairman of the Internationals' Committee and also to the chairman of the Producers' Committee. As to parties hereto not so withdrawing, this agreement shall terminate at the expiration of 2 years from its date unless sooner renewed. In witness whereof the parties hereto have caused these presents to be signed by their duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators of the United States and Canada, William F. Canavan, president; International Brotherhood of Painters. Decorators and Paperhangers of America, George F. Hedrick per Charles E. Lessing; United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, John Flynn, general representative; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, James P. Noonan, per A. W. Mclntyre, representative; American Federa- tion of Musicians, Joseph N. Weber, president, AFM; Producers Distributing Corp., F. C. Munroe, president; Universal Pictures Corp., R. H. Cochrane, vice president; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, N. M. Schenck, vice president; Fox Film Corp., W. R. Sheehan, vice president; First National Pictures, Inc., S. Spring, secre- tary-treasurer ; Famous Players Lasky Corp., Elek John Lud- vich, secretary-treasurer; F. B. O. Studios, Inc., J. I. Schnitzer, vice president; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Albert Warner, vice president; Educational Film Exchanges, Inc., E. W. Ham- mons, president.