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2020 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
picture, stating that atg should oppose these things, because of his antilabor stand.
We took it up with the Fox west coast people. I am quoting this from memory, but I remember writing a letter to Wendell Willkie asking him if he didn't think it was poor policy to make a hero picture of a man who came back and raised so much Cain with labor and labor unions.
He answered me. I think possibly I have the letter in the files. Again, I say, I am quoting from memory. He said he had contacted Skouras, they had discussed the matter, that they would hold up the picture temporarily, that Skouras would contact William Green and either Phil Murray or John L. Lewis, I have forgotten who was in the saddle at the time, before they would proceed to make the picture.
There was never any vote taken. There was some talk, but there was never any vote taken in the conference as to our disposition on working on the picture, because, if I remember correctly, this was during the period when we were under contract to the producers. It would have been a violation of our contract not to have done the work.
As I say again, I am quoting completely from memory. I have no notes on the case, but I think this should be explained to the committee.
Mr. Brewer also testified the notes showed local 683 withdrew from the CSU without any apparent notice or reason for it. I am prepared to give you the reason. Again I am quoting from memory, but I think it will be borne out very authentically.
There was a move by certain people to tear up the Conference of Studio Unions.
Now, if I were Mr. Brewer I would say there was a move by the Communists to destroy the CSU, but my statement to you is there were people who wanted to destroy the CSU.
Among those people were some of the officers of local 683 ; also Bill Pomerance, who has been spoken of here, who was the business agent for the cartoonists.
In order to destroy or dissolve the Conference of Studio Unions another outfit was formed, called the Council of Hollywood Guilds and Unions. Now, that would take in not only unions, but the talent guilds.
I could not participate in that because I could foresee a minority group controlling the council, since a minority group can always be obtained from little guilds who have no affiliation, and so forth.
Our union, by vote of the membership, joined the Council of Hollywood Guilds and Unions, but I refused to be a delegate; 683 dropped out of the conference because they thought their affairs could be handled better by the Conference of Hollywood Guilds and Unions. That was one reason.
It seems that some of the members came to see me duving that time. I had home discussion with them and thev brought it back on the floor. I think I kind of knocked the Hollywood Guild Council, or whatever it was. They used that for a reason to get their people to vote themselves out of the conference.
Mr. Brewer told you. I believe, that local 44 voted on a resolution to do only their own work, and they had to be taken over by the international.