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)

1542 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES the labor-management bill. I am trying to keep you and your record of the labor-management bill apart from the Hollywood investigation. Mr. Levy. That is why I was reading this into the record here, sir. We made no presentation of proof with respect to the labormanagement relations committee hearings whatsoever, other than the telegram which Congressman Hartley offered in the record. We were not requested to present any proof to that committee, as I understood it. Mr. McCann. But, as I understand Mr. Hartley's message to you, it invited you to offer any testimony which you might have with respect to the subject matter and it would be included in the record; is that not true ? Mr. Levy. I got the impression from the telegram I read that, insofar as there was to be an investigation of the Hollywood jurisdictional situation, there was where the proof would be presented. Mr. McCann. May I call your attention to the fact that there was no committee appointed to go to Hollywood to investigate the Hollywood jurisdictional strike until, I think, July of 1947. Mr. Levy. I do not deny that, sir. I did not know it, but I accept your statement as a fact. Mr. Owens. Mr. Chairman, the telegram you have referred to, was that dated March 11, 1947, from New York, addressed to Hon. Fred A. Hartley? Mr. Levy. Yes, sir. I do not seem to have it here. If you have it, I would like to read it into the record. Mr. Owens. There is one here at page 3483 of the official record of last year. Mr. Levy. That is the one I just read. Mr. Owens. There is also one from a party named Jack B. Tenney^ dated March 18. Mr. Levy. Yes, I intend to read that, sir. The learned chairman of this full committee made the following statement : The Chaikman. As furtliei evidence of the desire of this committee to hear both sides of ali controversies presented to this committee the Chair wishes to insert in the record at this point a wire from Richard F. Walsh, international president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, as a reply to the testimony of Mr. Schatte. In the same connection the Chair would also like to insert at this point in the record a wire from Mr. Jack B. Tenney, chairman of the Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities of the California State Legislature. If there is no objection they will be made a part of the record at this point. Now I want to read to vou the telegram to Hon. Fred Hartley from Sacramento, Calif., March 13, 1947 : My attention has been called to the testimony of Oscar Schatte, member of the Conference of Studio Unions, before your committee last Saturday. The Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities of the California State Legislature, of which I am chairman, has thoroughly investigated the Conference of Studio Unions and the Hollywood studio strike situation. On February 19, 1946, we issued a report containing the following paragraph : "The secret Communist Party affiliation of Herbert K. Sorrell is therefore established beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt and his activities explained in light of current Communist Party purposes and objectives." Mr. McCann. Now, Mr. Chairman, may I raise a point of order? Mr. Kearns. No objection.