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1294 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES Mr, Kearns. You had no local autonomy then ? Mr. TuoHY. When we accepted the entrance into the basic agree- ment, Mr. Tobin wrote a letter stating the conditions under which he was able to get our local into the basic agreement were that this would be handled from the top. Therefore, he demanded that he was to have a representative of his own to carry out his orders, that he was not going to allow that local to jeopardize the internationaL That was accepted unanimously by the membership of local 399 when that letter was read, Mr, Kearns, Even though they had voiced their opinion otherwise prior to that directive ? Mr, TuoHY, This was way back in the early daj's when we first accepted it, Mr. Kearns. But then that held true right on through ? Mr. TuoiiY. Right up through, and holds true today, Mr, Kearns. Mr, McCann. Now, can you give us the date on which you actually executed this document which is dated at the top as the 1st of January. What date did you execute it; could you give us any idea ? Mr, TuoHY, Oh, it was sometime after I was down there, I would not go to work unless they gave me a contract. Isn't there a date on the bottom of it ? Yes; here is the date, January 10, Mr. McCann. The terms you say were agreed on either in August or September ? ]\Ir. TuoHY. No; the salary they offered me at the first meeting I had was in April. Mr. McCann. The salary they offered to you then ? Mr. TuoHY. That is right; and that was agreeable to me. Mr. McCann. And that salary, as I recall it, for a 2-year period beginning January 1, 191:7, at $100 per week; for the next 2-year period the sum of $450 per w^eek; for the following 3-year period the sum of $500 per week with $100 of expenses each week. Is that correct ? ]VIr, TuoiiY. That is correct. Mr. McCann. Mv. Tuohy, did you attend a meeting of the pro- ducers at the producers' office in conjunction with ]\Ir. Brewer, Mr. Bassitt of the Central Labor Council, a representative of Mr. William Green of the American Federation of Labor, and with several others, at which time Mr. Bassitt gave the producers an ultimatum, that if the lAM machinists did any work in the studios it would be con- sidered "hot," and that all of the other crafts would refuse to handle same? That followed the lAM going out of the American Federa- tion of Labor. I do not know the date. Can you tell us about that ? Mr, TuoiiY, I cannot tell you the date, but I was at that meeting. Mr. McCann. You were at that meeting ? Mr. TuoHY. That is right. Mr. McCann. When the producers asked Mr. Bassett when this ultimatum was to take effect, didn't lie state at that very minute Mr, TuoHY, He could have, Mr. McCann, I do not recall. Mr, McCann, Don't you recall that? Mr, TuoiiY. It probably was said, I just cannot recall that those were the words used, Mr, McCann. Mr. Bassett at that time was representing, was he not, the Central Labor Council of the American Federation of Labor