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 1967 of Mr. Bioff, that either the lATSE had all jurisdiction or else all unions dealt through the lATSE, and if they did not, they were to be destroyed. Returning again directly to the Communist issue. Father Dunne testified with reference to the existence of communism in the Conference of Studio Unions. And he tells about a meeting with William Green, president of the A. F. of L., in Washington ; and I quote from his testimony : I did get the impression that Mr. Green's confused attitude, as it appeared to me in this, was largely due to the fact he had been told that the Conference of Studio Unions people were all Communists and that, naturally, despite the fact the clarification was on the side of tlie companies that he, because of liis sincere and genuine opposition to communism, was reluctant to make a clear-cut statement in wliich he would be taking sides with a group of people who had been described to him as Communists. I, of course, discussed that witli liim because my own knowledge of tlie people involved and so on, is that I am completely convinced and always have been that is not a genuine issue in this case. I know the Conference of Studio Unions people. I know there are Communists, undoubtedly, in the CSU, as there are in the lATSE and almost every other group in the country. It is not a Communist-group and not Communist-led. Now, some further testimony of Father Dunne on this same question : Mr. McCann. Wlien were you ordained a priest? Father Dunne. On June 19, 1936. Mr. McCann. When you wi'ote the article entitled "Peace in Jail" wliich ApI)eared in the June 20, 1947, edition of the Commonweal and in which you referred to Mr. Sorrell as possessing "Certain of the qualities which to me are a reflection of genuine holiness," had you read and were you familiar with the contents of the following documents : (a) Report of subcommittee on law and order of the assembly committee on governmental efficiency and economy being a part of the assembly journal of February 18, 1946, and being a reixtrt of such assembly committee on the violence and break-down of law and order in the 1945 strike. That is the document from which Mr. Levy read, I believe. Father Dunne. Is this to identify the document? Is this the Tenney report? Mr. LUDDY. Don Field. Mr. Luddy in the L. A. hearing was the attorney for the lATSE. Father Dunne. No, I am not familiar with the report. I am familiar with the incidents described in the report. I already made the comment about my view of violence. Mr. McCann. That portion of the Assembly Journal of the State of California dated February 19, 1946, wliich contains a partial report of the joint fact-finding committee on un-American activities in California, which report relates to certain signatures of one Herbert Sorrell and one Herb Stewart and the testimony of John L. Harris and Clark Sellers, handwriting experts, with respect to such signatures V Father Dunne. Again. I think that I must develop my answer. I am familiar Mr. McCann. Proceed with your answer. Father Dunne. This is the Tenney report and I am entirely familiar with it and completely unconvinced by it. I am familiar with Mr. Tenney. I have had personal experiences with him. I place very little reliance upon the kind of a thing Mr. Tenney has done. I have come to know Mr. Sorrell quite intimately. I am completely convinced in my mind Mr. Sorrell is not a Communist. The evidence in this report has been submitted to me and is entirely unconvincing, based upon the unsubstantiated kind of thing tbat you get from witnesses, you know nothing about their background. The particular document in question that purports to have Mr.