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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 1987
So he gave me his telephone number and I called him up. I asked for him by name, and he said, "Oh, he's gone. He's down in Texas some place."
He said, "Who's calling?"
I said, "Well, this is Herb Sorrell, and I wanted to just talk with the man, but if you give me his number down in Texas, maybe I can wi'ite him."
He said, "Thafs different. I thought it was the damn studios pestering me to come back to work again." He said, "That's me, and I will be glad to talk to you."
He came down and he talked to me, and I took him to another painters union, which does work outside on buildings and so forth, introduced him, and he was taken into the painters union. Whenever this thing is settled, it will be brought up to our membership, and I am sure tliat they will vote him into the union, because the man is sincere, he is a good union man, he is now working every day, because he is also a pretty good painter.
But he would not have gone in had he known that there was a lot of just honest working people off their jobs, but he went in because there was a weak picket line, not the proper advertisements.
I tell you that story to impress on you the reasons that there must be a demonstration to show that it is not a stray man locked out here or there, but it is a mass of people who have forfeited their positions in the studios, which is their fortune, which is all they have.
In many respects they have made big contributions to the motionpicture industry. They have put their life in it. They know it better than anything else. And then to be locked out, and they pick up some Skidwell bum and send him in there, and claim the same rights for him as those who have made their contribution to the industry
Mr. Laxdis. JSIy point was to get the mass on each side of the gate, if you wanted numbers, put 500 on each side of the gate.
^Ir. Sorrell. That would not work in the motion-picture studios, because they would think it was a bunch of extras w^aiting to go to work or something. If you are going to have a picket line, you are going to have to have a picket line.
Mr. Laxdis. They could all carry banners to show who they were, of course.
Mr. Kearns. Mr^ Sorrell, when you had the mass picket line in front of AVarner Bros., all the company officials, any of the executive officers of that company, any directors were permitted to go into that plant and were not molested in any way; is that not right?
Mr. Sorrell. I never heard of them being molested.
Mr. Kearns. AVhat people had to stay in the plant for fear of going outside ?
Mr. Sorrell. The producers bedded down people in the plants.
^Ir. Kearns. I mean in what capacity ; what was the personnel that they bedded down?
Mr. Sorrell. They did bed down people in the plant, and I am trying to think who the people were. I imagine that it was — in fact I know it was laborers and electricians, and common working guys like us who refused to go through the picket lines who if they stayed in the studios where they did not have to go back and forth through the studios, they stayed there ; but if they let them go home, they did not come back.