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1276 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Mr. McCann. That is the way it reads, sir, and I have to read it that way. Mr. BoREN, We have not asked or insisted that a man have a card or not have a card. There is no condition of membership in the car- penters when we employ our employees. Mr. McCann. Continuino; Mr. Cobb's questions : Yon state that the basic agreement was extended from time to time. Did all the major companies join in the extensions? Mr. BoREN. I think so, with the exception that not all the major companies have belonged continuously to the Producers' Association. I could not state accurately on that, but generally, yes. Mr. McCann. Did the Producers Association join in the extension in behalf of its members, the major companies ? Mr. BoREN. That is a technical question, but generally each com- pany signs an individual collective-bargaining agreement. Mr. McCann. Did the major companies have a closed-shop agree- ment with carpenters and others dated on or about December 8, 1935 ? Mr. BoREN. I think that is when the agreement was made. I think that the effective date was in April 1936. Mr. McCann. That has already been received in evidence. Mr. BoREN. I believe it has. Mr. McCann. Did each of the major companies post a notice of this closed-shop agreement on or about January 2, 1936? Mr. BoREN. Yes. I was in the studios at the time, but I was not active in labor relations during that time. However, I believe, I am almost certain that they posted this notice on January 2, 1936. Mr. JMcCann. Do you have a copy of that in your office, sir? Mr. BoREN. Yes, we have. Mr. McCann. I wonder if you will furnish a copy of that to the committee. Mr. BoREN. I have seen such a copy. I think everyone had to join up with the unions by April 1936. That included the carpenters. The National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers also came under that. Mr. McCann. Will you also furnish the committee with a copy of the closed-shop agreement? The thing which I have just put in apparently is a notice of the closed-shop agreement of December 8, 1945. Mr. BoREN. Well, I don't laiow whether I can or not, sir. I will have to go back into our archives. I don't know whether that exists. I have never seen an executed copy of the closed-shop agreement under that basic agi"eement. It may be there, I am not sajang it is not, but we certainly have observed the agreement that was made as of December 1935. Mr. McCann. The notice we have received, but if you have a copy of the agreement you will send it to us ? Mr. BoREN. I will send it to you, but I do not think we have it. We may have it, and if we have it you are certainly welcome to it. Mr. McCann. These are questions by Mr. Zorn: Is it not a fact that the studios are, and for months have been in full production ? I think you have answered that. Mr. BoREN. We are. Mr. McCann. Is it not a fact that except for token picket lines of the carpenters, there are no strike activities ?