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MOTIOX-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1301 TESTIMONY OF HARVEY W. BROWN, INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS, WASHINGTON, D. C. (The witness was duly sworn.) Mr. McCann. ISIr. Brown, will you please give your name, your address, and your telephone number? ^Ir. Bkowx. Harvey W. Brown, jSIachinists Building; telephone, National 4135. Mr. McCann. Washington, D. C? ]Mr. Brown. Washington, D. C. Mv. McCann. What position do you hold and how long have you held it? Mr. Brown. I am international president of the International Asso- ciation of Machinists. In the fall of 1988 I was appointed as the acting international president due to the then president being on sick leave. About a year later I was appointed international president and I have been elected and reelected since that time. ]Mr. McCann. Were you elected by a vote of your members? ]Mr. Brown. By referendum. Mr. ]\IcCann. What is the membership of your union ? Mr. Brown. What it comprises ? Mr. McCann. Yes. Mr. Brown. Our membership work in the railroad industr}', the shipbuilding industry, the automobile repair branch of industry, man- ufacturing all types of machinery, manufacturing and repairing air- planes. In fact, our membership are employed producing all types of machine-shop products. ISIr. JNIcCann. And you have an apprenticeship system ? Mr. Brown. We have an apprenticeship system. We have estab- lished contractual relationship with over 10,500 employers. In the last 2 years those agreements have been renewed, together with some new agreements, and less than 1 percent were required to resort to a stoppage of work. In other words, more than 99 percent of our rela- tionship was established at the contract table without a stoppage of work. Mr. ^NIcCann. How long is your apprenticeship to become a machinist ? Mr. Brown. Four years. Mr. McCann. What is the total membership of your union ? jSlr. Brown. The last report I received from our research department indicated the membership was close to 650,000. Mr. McCann. What percentage of apprentices do you have at this time ? Mr. Brown. I couldn't say. ]\Ir. McCann. Is that handled locally ? Mr. Brown. Yes; it is. ^Ir. McCann. You would not have that? ^Ir. Brown. No; I would not have that. Mr. McCann. You have a prepared statement, do you ? Mr. Brow^n. I do. Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, I suggest he be permitted to give his prepared statement without interruption and that questions be de- ferred until he has finished reading it.