Jurisdictional disputes in the motion-picture Industry : hearings before a special subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first-session, pursuant to H. Res. 111 (1948)

MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1351 "i. Thiif all parties t'oncenied. tlio Iiitoniational AlliaiKv of Theatrical Stage Employees and IMoviiig IMcture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada; the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; Inter- national Association of IMachiiiisfs; iTnited Association of Plnmb'.'rs and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada: Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Pap<^'"liii»gors of America; the International Brotherliood of Klectrical Workei's; and the Building Service Employes' International Union accept as tinal and binding su<-h decisions and determinations as the executive council committee of three may finally render. At the conclusion of the reading of this decision of thf> executive council Presi- dent Walsh stated that he is going to have to abide by the decision of the council. The hearing was concluded. Presidi'Ut (.Jreen appointed tlie following to the committee: Vice Presidents Knight. Birthright, and Doherty. Vice President Tobin offered a motion that the expenses of this committee be paid by the American Federation of Labor. Carried. (Excerpts from iniiiutes of the Chicago meeting are as follows:) Ai^TERNOON SESSION THrRSDAV, Ax'GX'ST 15, 1946. Meeting called to order at 2:85 p. m., President Green in the chair. Present: Green, Hutcheson, WoU. Weber, Harrison, Tobin, Bates, Knight, Birth- right, Doherty, Dnbinsky, Lewi.s, Meany. Absent: Bugniazet, Mahon. ******* The council resuni'ed discussion of the carpenters' protest against the decision of the Hollywood Jurisdiction Committee. Vice President Doherty requested tliat the amendment which he offered to the motion (see p. 76 of the executive coiuicil minutes. May 15-22, 1946) be con- sidered in order, i. e., "that this action does not interfere with the decision handed down by the Hollywood Jurisdictional Committee." Vice President Hutcheson contended that this amendment is passe because the Brotherhood of Carpenters has not accepted the dii'ective. He stated the inter- national has not accepted and does not intend to accept it for reasons that have previously been stated and are in the record. The coxmcil discussed this question at some length. Vice President Knight expressed the opinion that this amendm-ent is in order. He called attention to the fact that the council went back to the record of the last meeting of the council when this question was under discussion and took from the minutes of that meeting the motion that was made, and that is the motion to be acted on here. He contended that the amendnjent was made at that time and there was no objection raised to it and no question of its propriety, legality, or constitutionality I'aised; and he stilted if we are to take one from> that meet- ing he did not see how we could avoid taking the other. Vice President Knight stated that when the council met in Cincinnati last October ail of this was gone over, everybody except Vice President Lewis was there. He stated this committee was handed a directive; it was all-inclusive; there were no conditions or qualifications to that directive. Vice President Knight stated that while he did not mean to be egotistical he did not believe there were any three men in America who could go out there in that nasty situation and render a directive that would be more universally accepted than the one the committee handed down last December 26. He pointed out furthei- that the connnittee was handicapped by having only 30 days in which to do the job. Vice President Knight slated the conanittee is not against the carpenters having their jurisdiction. Vice President Hutcheson reiterated his contention made in previous dis- cussions that he was not given an opportunity to appear before the committee. Vice President Birthright stated that in his opinion if this motion is pas.sed without the amendment, it voids the decision of the committee. He stated that the committee in rendering that decision out there did not interfere with the jurisdiction of any international union outside of these studios. After some fnither discussion \ire President Hutcheson stated if the com- mittee would give to the council a clarilication of its intent as set forth in the discussion he would cover withdrawal of his motion.