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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1573
They then withdrew from the basic agreement and did start a strike.
Mr. Owens. What time in 1937 did that take place, any time in the spring ?
Mr. Casey. Now, Mr. Owens, to the best of my recollection, I think it was along in the fall. I believe it was around August or September, something of that kind.
Mr. Ow^ENS. Who headed the painters at that time ?
Mr. Casey. Mr. Lindelof was the international president of the painters and Herb Sorrell was the business agent for the local union.
Mr. OwExs. "Wlio called the strike ?
Mr. Casey. Wait a minute, I am wrong. A man named Charlie Lessing — and I think you will find his signature on the original basic agreement — was brought to California. There were two or three fellows there. I do not recall their names. They came back there and called the strike.
Lessing was around trying to straighten it out and he could not, so he went away.
Then, if I remember correctly, the painters had a meeting and elected Sorrell as their business agent.
]Mr. Owens. You mean after the strike was called ?
Mr, Casey. Yes, sir.
Mr. Owexs. So he was not primarily connected with the strike in the first place ?
Mr. Casey. No, sir.
Mr. Owens. Then how long did that strike last ?
Mr. Casey. Oh, I think tTiat strike lasted 4 or 5 weeks. The lA came along and furnished us with people and we kept the studios open. Then the lA and the painters got together and straightened it up.
Mr. Oavens. The teamsters came through the line ?
Mr. Casey. Everybody.
INIr. Owens. Well, the machinists mentioned they would not go through the line and the carpenters did not either, did they ?
Mr. Casey. I think they clid, Mr. Owens.
Mr. Owens. I believe the machinists testified they did not go through the lines.
Mr. Casey. They may not have.
Mr. Owens. You recall I was trying to bring out the difference between 1937 and 1945.
Mr. Casey. That is right. I am pretty sure everybody under that basic agreement went through that line and paid no attention to this thinof because at the meeting when the painters were demanding the jurisdiction of these people all the rest of the international presidents were there. I don't believe that any one of them — Tobin, Joe Weber, Hutcheson, the electrical workers — I think everyone of them went through the line.
Mr. Owens. Well, the machinists testified that they were trying to organize at that time.
Mr. Casey. But the machinists were never under the basic agreement, IVfr. Owens.
Mr. Owens. That is right.
Mr. Casey. I am only talking now abi>ut the crafts that were under the basic agreement. I am positive they all went through the line.