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)
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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1263 Rules of Procedure Under Motion Picture Agreement of November 29, 1926 The following miles are adopted by the Internationals' Committee and the Producers' Committee representing all of the signatories to the above agreement as of the 14th day of Decemher 192ยป), their purpose being to establish the principle of cooperation and adjustment, it being understood that they are subject to amendments or additions as occasion may arise. 1. Tlie Internationals' Committee may appoint agents, delegates, or officers who shall have authority in dealing with the separate managements of the studios of the Producers as may be expressly delegated to them by the Internationals' Committee. The relations of the Unions with the Producers and with the separate managements of their studios in matters affecting wages, hours of labor or working conditions are to he carried on exclusively through the Internationals' Committee. Except where the organic law of a union does not permit such pro- cedure. 2. The Internationals' Committee and the Producers' Committee shall each select a chairman. 3. The Internationals' Committee and the Producers' Committee shall each appoint or select a secretary, or some other agent designated for the purpose who have an office in Los Angeles. Grievances, requests, or other matters arising out of the agreement which have failed of immediate adjustment at any studio shall be reixirted by each side to its own secretary or agent, who shall confer with the secretary or agent of the other side. Each secretary or agent shall make an independent inquiry into the facts and report them to the chairman of his committee with his suggestions or recommendations. 4. The chairmen jointly may order a hearing on any subject either before or after it has been brought to the attention of the full committees, to h? held at sucli place and time and by such person or jiersons representing their committees as they nia.v decid^. Any person affeced by t'ne dfcision of such person or per- sons shall have the right of appeal to the committees for their further action. 5. Each committee may make its own rules as to alternates and other matters affecting its own organization or funtions. 6. Additions to or amendments of the rules may be made from time to time by the joint action of a majority of each committee by vote or agreement in writing. An.v of the foregoing rules or any rule hereafter adopted may be canceled and thereby made of no further effect by vote of, or written agreement of, a majority of either committee, notice of the same being given in Avriting to the Chairman of the other committee. Mr. McCanx. Now with respect to the teamsters, I hand you two documents which seem to relate to wage scales, hours of employment, and working conditions. One is dated 1944 and one is dated 1946. They were furnished to me as if they were the last teamsters' contracts. I wonder if you will look at them and tell me whether that is true? ]Mr. BoREX. No; there is a later contract than you have given me. Mr. ^NIcCaxx. What date was that contract ? Mr. BoREX. That contract was executed as of August 14, 1947. Mr. ]\IcCaxx. In regard to these contracts which one of them was in force and effect when the strike started in 1945 ? Mr. BoREX. The contract dated October 12, 1944. Mr. McCaxx. AYhich contract was in force and effect at the time of the September jurisdictional strike? Mr. BoREX. I am sorry this does not have the date on it. It is tlie contract marked "1946." ^ Mr. McC'axx. Was there any other contract between the basic agree- ment and the 1946 contract which set out the conditions under which the contract was to operate ? Mr. BoREN. I am sorry; you will have to repeat that question. Mr. ^NIcCaxx. Was there any other contract supplementing tlie basic agreement which was entered into in 1926, between 1926 and 1 Tlip 1940 47 contract bptwonn the major studios and teamsters' local No. ."^OO, with notice to all studios dated December 10. 1940, re Bulletin dated September 2G, 194G, is on file with the committee as a reference exhibit.