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 1545 Mr. Kearns. You might explain to the full committee now that you have read the letter up a certain point. Mr. Levy. In view of the fact that there are other members here, I will read the first two pages again. Mr. Kearns. Mr. Reporter, he will read the letter and then you pick it up at section (e) , where he left off before. The Reporter. Yes, sir. Mr. Levy (reading) : November 28, 1947. Hon. Cakroll D. Kearns. Chairman, Subcommittee on the Hollywood Studio Labor Strikes, Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. Dear Congressman Kearns : On behalf of Mr. Richard F. Walsh, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada, and Mr. Roy M. Brewer, international representative in Hollywood of that organization, and pursuant to the authoriztion of the subcommittee, Mr. Michael G. Luddy, of Los Angeles, west coast counsel, and I, as special counsel for the lATSE in the Hollywood labor situation, herewith submit the following statement to be included in the record of the Hollywood hearings in the inquiry conducted by your subcommittee in the matter of the Hollywood studio labor strilies : I. Normal jurisdictional labor problems existed in the studios for some years, largely as a result of the many unions and of the nature of the Avorli. These normal jurisdictional differences might have been peaceably resolved in ordinary trade-union channels were it not that the pro-Communist elements in the studios had irritated and magnified the jurisdictional differences into internecine labor explosions. More is involved in the Hollywood labor situation than ordinary jurisdictional differences. No investigation of the jurisdictional strikes in HoUj^wood from 1944 to date can or will give a complete picture of the situation, without a recognition and study of Communist infiltration and tactics in the Hollywood studio unions. (a) One Jeff Kibre, as the representative of the Communist Party in Hollywood prior to 1939, planned to form an unemployment conference of various studio unions for the purpose of laying a foundation for an industrial union in opposition to the lATSE Mr. McCann. Now may I ask at this time: Do you know where Jeff Kibre is ? Mr. Levy. I do not. I have been informed Mr. Jeff Kibre is now in the northwest part of the United States, recently charged or indicted with the commission of some crime or offense there, and is presently. an organizer of a CIO union. That is as far as I can tell on information. I have no knowledge as to Mr. Jeff Kibre's personal present whereabouts. Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, at this time, with the first name he has mentioned, I propose as a procedure that as each name is called out and the person is charged with being a Communist, that the chairman of the committee shall ask for the full name and address, and that we notify the persons charged before this committee as Communists, and afford them an opportunity, if they so desire, to appear before the committee to offer any evidence to the contrary. Mr. Kearns. So ordered. Mr. Levy. Counsel interrupted me in the middle of a sentence, and I would like to complete it. Mr. Landis. Mr. Chairman, I might say I was taking down the names, but if counsel will take down the names and addresses I would appreciate it.