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1268 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES In preparation for their refusal I personally ordered the account- ing department to work on Sunday to make up these checks. The reason I did it was that the State Labor Code of California requires that when a man is laid off or discharged that his moneys are due immediately. And as Mr. Sorrell and others have testified here, we haA'e had some ugly pictures and I did not want to quarrel over the fact whether we had the money ready for them or not at the time they should refuse to do their work. If they had not refused to do the work naturally the checks never would have been issued. Now it is true, as I testified in Los Angeles, that in some of our col- lective bargaining contracts we have a provision in those contracts whicli states that a man who is laid off shall be immediately paid or he will be paid by check within 24 hours. Mr. Kearns. How long is he hired for originally? Mr. BoREN. One day. ]Mr. Kearns. Every man working there on the lots is hired for 1 day ? Mr. BoREX. Not every man, no, because we have many classifications of workers. In the painters union, for example, we have flat salaried foremen who are hired by the week. Mr. Kearns. We had a man in Los Angeles, as you recall, who testi- fied he had worked for 20 years but so far as his tenure was concerned all he was employed for was by the day. Mr. BoREN. That is true. These are day workers. I would like to say, too, that we do not have any incentive pay out there; we do not have any slide rules. Mr. Kearxs. I have a new bill on that that is pretty good. I will show it to you fellows. Mr. BoREN. So when these men were assigned to these hot sets Mr. Kearns. On Monday ? Mr. BoREx. On IMonday, and when they refused to do the work they were assigned, they were requested to go home. They were tendered their checks at that time, because that is the law of the State of Cali- fornia. It is also a part of our union contracts, that they be tendered their checks when discharged, so that is why I ordered the checks to be prepared on Sunday. Mr. Kearns. If they did not want to leave were they ordered out? Mr. BoREX. We did not have that trouble. Mr. Kearns. You are speaking just at Paramount ? Mr. BoREN. I am speaking of Paramount. We did not have that trouble at Paramount. Mr. Kearns. There were other instances? Mr. BoREN. I want to say a lot of those men went down to those sets with a lot of regret. A lot of them did not want to go down, did not want to go through this routine, and that is the unfortunate thing about it. Mr. Kearns. Mr. Owens, do you have any questions? Mr. Owens. Yes, I think Mr. Boren might be able to clear up a few things. I believe you mentioned before that you have that contract with the basic group which was made in 1942, extending to about October of 1946 and the stage hands were not included in that group ? Mr. Boren. No, the stage hands had withdrawn many years before. Mr. Owens. And who else ?