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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1325 Mr. Owens. Did you go ahead and do the work that was assigned to yon ? Mr. Brown. Our members did the work assigned to them by their supervisor. When otliers did the work that was formerly did by our trade, and which was not a matter of dispute before the arbitration committee, I understand they protested through the business repre- sentative direct to each studio. Mr. OwEXS. What month was that in—the early part of 1946? Mr. Browx. I think Mr. Wayne can furnish you those details. ]Mr. OwE^^s. But j^our men continued to work with the other men after the directive was handed down, didn't they? Mr. Browx. Yes. INIr. OwExs. 'Wlien did they stop working? Mr. Browx". Some date in September. Mv. OwEX-^s. That was after the painters had issued their ultimatum 1 Mr. Browx^. After they established picket lines. When picket lineg Avere establislied. our people refused to cross the picket lines. Mr. Kearxs. They were not paid off on the 23d, though, like the carpenters were ? Mr. Browx. No ; they were not. Mv. Kearxs. They worked that day, and it was probably subsequent davs thereafter that they would not go through the picket lines? Mr. Broavx^. Tliat is one of the details that I do not know. Mr. OwExs. Your men that had left you in 1945 to join this other group that you s]:)oke of before • ]Mr. Broavx^. T beg your pardon ? Mv. OwEX's. The men who had gone from your union to work during tlie strike in 1945—did they continue to work during the months ol 1946 following the handing down of the directive? jSIr. Browx^. It is my understanding that when our people returned to work in the latter part of October 1945, not only those who broke ranks but a few who remained and did not come out were moved out of the sho]:»s. That is why I said in my brief the shops were clean. Those who stayed, those who broke ranks, and those who were hired v.-ere all removed. Mr. OwExs. Were they never rehired? ]\Ir. Brov.'x. I couldn't say; I don't know. Mr. McCaxx. INIr. Chairman, the evidence shows this morning— if you will pardon me—that in April they found twenty-some-odd ol these men who had been reinstated by management. That was in his statement this morning. Mv. OwExs. I figured if he wrote the statement he would be able to answer the question. I am not referring to the statement; I would rather ask the question. Mr. Browx'. Mr. Owens, as to those 21 people, I do not know if they were rehired. It was my information management retained a number on the y>ny roll, although they were not rendering service. Many of them Avcre transferred into other departments that came under the jurisdiction of tlie lA, I was told. Whetlier these men were brought in from the street or whether they were taken from some other departments or moved into the machine shop—which we contend was for the purpose of starting a rumpus— I don't know. G7383—i8—vol. 2 19