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 2063 mean tliat there should be a new local of set erectors originated, out of the one word "erection'' that they pnt in there. Had the lATSE not brought into being this new classification and had to use the objectionable people to do this work; had they depended on the grips who had always done it before and who had a. deal with the carpenters, there would be no trouble today. But I am positive that the conspiracy between the lATSE and the motion-picture producers existed at that time and exists yet today to destroy the Conference of Studio Unions, to destroy the carpenters, to destroy the machinists, eventually to destroy the painters and put things completely in their own hands. Mr. Landis. Who took over the machinists ? Mr. SoRRELL. The machinists work was being done by a federal union chartered by the American Federation of Labor, called Federal Union No. so and so. Xow, the lATSE had the machinists, but the directive completely eliminated the lATSE from that field, so the people wnth the same business agent, the same man who had been the lATSE business agent applied for the federal charter and he applied for a federal charter reading, "'Cinema Technicians". Now, I talked to George Meany. He told me that he would not issue a charter saying that they were cinema technicians, but that it was the policy of the board, wdierever a charter was asked for machinists, to issue a federal charter. So the federal charter he issued was federal charter so and so for machinists in Los Angeles County. That is the ruse that they used to put the people back to work in the studios to violate or to make one of the first violations of this agreement that they claim we are in violation of. I know I am skipping over a lot. I expect Mr. Bodle to read in some more and catch me up here and there, but I am trying to make time. I don't want to stay in Washington all my life. I have an awful nice place that I come from on the west coast where the weather is better and 1 W'Ould like to get back. But there are a number of these things I have to tell, then we will back them up with dates and so forth afterward. Mr, Landis. Have you covered all those Government officials now^? Mr. SoRRELL. Don't you think that is enough ? Mr. Landis. Well, I expected a little more. Mr. SoRRELL. Let me tell you something. I don't want to go too deep in this. I want to go just detp enough to let you know that there is a conspiracy between Eichard Walsli, Roy Brewer, and some of the major motion picture producers who have lots of money, who ^an plant attorneys here and there who can get things done. A little later I want to show you some more instances of that. Mr. Landis. Was the National Labor Relations Board involved in this with Denham? Mr. SoRREix. Sure. Denliam was a trial examiner with the Board I am just telling you about. I am telling you ; you can check for yourself. I have a lot of witnesses. I don't have to call one. I can call several who will tell you that what I have told you here is the truth about them i)utting it through. And when we finally put the pinchers right down on them, they were biased and prejudiced and did not