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1538 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
to the motion-picture industry labor dispute and in no way is to be considered as any single angle of development. It is purely a part of the over-all picture which will be developed through the testimony we will hear.
So at this point, Mr. Levy, we will go back. The evidence which you presented this morning will be part of the record which will be considered from here on by the committee named by the Honorable Mr. Landis.
The report up to this point of the hearing is still under the direction of myself who was appointed by the chairman of the full committee. The parties will understand how the picture looks from here in.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, may I make a suggestion at this point?
Mr. Kearns. Yes, Mr. Counsel.
Mr. McCann. I would like Mr. Levy to correct me if I am wrong.
I believe the communistic element first entered into his testimony this morning with the introduction of the letter which you wrote to Chairman Kearns in November ; is that not correct, Mr. Levy ?
TESTIMONY OF MATTHEW M. LEVY— Continued
Mr. Le\'y. No, sir.
Mr. McCann. You had gone into that before ?
Mr. Levy. In Los Angeles we had made request of the learned chairman of the subcommittee to go into that. That is in the record.
In the letter which was written by President Walsh of the lATSE to President Green of the American Federation of Labor on September 19, 1946, the position of the lATSE with respect to the Communist conduct in the studio strike was mentioned.
Then I followed that with a letter which I wrote to Congressman Kearns on November 24, 1947, pursuant to his permission, when the hearings ended suddenly out there, to file a statement.
One other matter came in. Vice President Knight of the American Federation of Labor, the record shows, on page 192 of the minutes of February 18, 1948, of the Miami meeting of the American Federation of Labor said:
There is a bad situation there. He —
meaning Vice President Knight of the American Federation of Labor and the chairman of the committee of three of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor —
stated there is a very bitter feeling in that industry in Hollywood and there are numerous other interests working there, some of them working with those people, not for their benefit but for the ultimate result of their taking over and then we would have other organizations representing these people in Hollywood.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, I think that gives to the committee present at least some idea of what references have been made to communism in the testimony before noon. I thought that the communistic element — because I was busy doing things the chairman asked me to do — started with this letter and, if it had started, that I was going to suggest that the letter itself be put in the afternoon session, as I understood that was Mr. Owens' desire.
Mr. Owens. I was going to say let us consider a reoffer of Mr. Levy's testimony for the record this morning in the record of this afternoon.