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1988 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Mr. Kearns. What about the industrial-relations men and things like that?
Mr. SoRRELL. Industrial relations?
Mr. Kearns. Labor relations, or whatever j'ou call it.
Mr. SoRRELL. I never heard of one of them being bedded down in the studios. I never heard of that.
Mr. Kearns. You did not interfere in any way with the executives of the company going in and out of the building?
Mr. SoRRELL. There was only one time that I can ever — that I ever knew of anybody being
Mr. Kearns. This, in my opinion, is serious, because I saw a Westinghouse strike up in our District where the office force were not out on strike, nor any of the company's officials, but there was not one of those men who could go into that building; they had to move 15 miles over in Ohio so they could operate their drafting work, and get ready to work, and get their plans made, and blueprints, so they could manufacture when they did go back to work.
Mr. SoRRELL. That was not the fact in the motion-picture industry. I was just going to say, to my knowledge, no executive had any trouble going in and out.
To my knowledge, only one man I ever saAv was stopped by the picket line, or had trouble. That was Blayney Matthews, the chief of police at Warner Bros., and he went through the picket line with shoulders, going out, and then he waved for the fellows to come on across, and he came back with his shoulders going through, and he got roughed up a bit.
Mr. IvEARNS. But as chief of police, though, he was part of management, protecting property rights; is that not correct?
Mr. SoRREiiL. That is what he was supposed to be doing. But when he bullied the line going out, and then came back pushing people, knocking them over, they roughed him up a little bit. And waving his arms.
Mr. Kearns. In other Avords, that was a personal attack rather than a company attack?
Mr. SoRRELL. Had he walked through gently, nobody would have touched him. To my knowledge, no executive was touched or harmed, and I do not think you can find any record of any executive or anyone in that kind of a position going through the lines, unless they joined in a mass attack, like this dancing director said, and I do not think it carries much water.
Mr. Kearns. You believe in property rights in America ; you must, because you sat here the other day and you said you would not have communism in America if everybody owned his own home and had a little piece of property.
Mr. SoRRELL. Let us put it this way, Mr. Kearns : I think that the basis of good citizenship in this country is the people who own their own homes, have their own gardens, have their own automobiles, and have a part of this country. They are the people that vote. The fly-bv-nighters. who are in one town one day and move to another, and on relief another day, and who follow up labor troubles to take other people's jobs, and who hibernate down around Skid Rows, they don't contribute anything to this country. They are misfits, sometimes for one reason and sometimes for another.