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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1985
Mr. SoRRELL. At Disney's there was a mass picket line, but people went through. They drove cars through. The officers were there to see that they drove carefully, just as you would on a crowded sidewalk. We had no trouble at Disney's. We didn't even have one fist fight.
I tell you today that that was absolutely a peaceful picket line, and Ave had some boys in there who liked to get a little too much to drink, and who have caused trouble. We took care of them. They were not arrested. We took them off.
]Mr. Landis. I am talking about the cars, the day the cars were turned over. You said some of them drove through.
Mr. SoRRELL. That is right. Look; if somebody comes up and smashes you, you smash back. If somebody comes up and says, "Let me by, please," you let them through. But when they start smashing you, you start smashing back. When they start tearing cars through there and hurting people, they started dumping cars. Violence brings violence.
Mr. Laxdis. But did you allow those cars to go through if they wanted to go through?
Mr. SoRRELL. Well, they had these cars turned upside down when I got there that morning. This is hearsay with me, but I know it is a fact, that several cars drove through. They were driven through deliberately by people to smash up the picket line. There were some people went to the hospital. I think the records will show that there were three or four of them that went to the hospital that morning. And then they just deliberately went out and dumped over the cars to block it. And after that, no cars went through.
Mr. Landis. I was trying to get the picture of the mass picket at the gate, and then a car was allowed to go through. I mean, I thought they prevented the cars from going through.
Mr. SoRRELL. Oh, no, no. No cars was ever prevented that I know of, except that morning when they turned over some cars to keep them from racing through.
Mr. Landis. That is the point I wanted to make.
Mr. SoRRELL. Yes.
Mr. Kearns. I think we had better recess until 2 o'clock.
(Thereupon, at 12 : 50 p. m., the committee recessed until 2 p. m. of the same day.)
AFTERNOON SESSION
(The hearing was resumed at 2 : 10 p. m., pursuant to the recess for lunch.)
Mr. Kearns. We will call the meeting to order. Mr. Sorrell, we will continue.
We left off on the picket is&lie, as I recall. The question I was going to bring up on that was the fact that you still think that good, sound, bargaining with industry and labor getting together, and with the guaranty — there should be a guaranty of no stoppage of production and no stoppage of work — all the disputes should be settled before jon ever have to have a strike or a picket line.