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2212 MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES
Now, if that work was carried on the same from the sio:nino: of the contract up until the uUimatum, that makes a different picture, but if the work was changed that is also a different picture.
Mr. Cobb. I am ver}^ grateful for the question and I am happy to answer it.
The record will show — and I will show by careful quotations from the record, with book and page references — that there was not an acquiescence in the lA interpretation of the December 26, 1945, decision, but that there was a rumiing controversy up until the clarification. That is No. 1.
No. 2 is that the clarification does not change the December agreement; it merely states what the December agreement meant.
Mr. Landis. Does it change the July agreement?
Mr. Cobb. It does not change the July agreement because the December decision, the July agreement, and the clarification must all be considered and interpreted together.
Mr. McCanx. May I interrupt you there, Mr. Cobb ?
Mr. Cobb. Yes, sir .
Mr. McCanx. For the sake of the Chair I now have found the testimony which has been referred to and we will read it into the record. It is very brief.
Mr. Landis. Let us finish this point first.
Mr. McCaxn, It is on this July 2 matter and I thought you would want to put it in here. [Reading :]
Ml". McCann. Did the various companies observe the July 2, 1946, agreement up until the clay the carpenters were ordered off the lots? Mr. Benjamin. I am informed they did.
I have read from the testimony of Mr-. Benjamin on pages 1513 and 1514 of the Hollywood hearings.
Mr. Cobb. I thought my memory was correct on that.
Mr. Laxdis. The point I want to make is this : AVlierein did the producers change the work or break the contract that was signed in July ?
Mr. Cobb. And I want to meet that directly in this way: First, what did the December decision mean ?
Mr. Laxdis. Of course, they signed the contract in July.
Mr. Cobb. I understand they signed the contract in July based upon the true meaning of the December decision.
Mr. Laxdis. All right ; we will take that for granted.
Mr. Cobb. I find as we go along, Mr. Landis, that there is going to be a happy community of thought between us.
Mr. Kearns. We will adjourn now until 2 o'clock.
(Whereupon, at 12: 10 p. m., a recess was taken until 2 p. m.)
AFTERXOOX SESSION
(The subcommittee reconvened at 2 p. m.)
Mr. Kearxs. The hearing will come to order, please.
Mr. Cobb, you may proceed.
TESTIMONY OF ZACH LAMAR COBB— Continued
Mr. Cobb. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Kearns. We left off where j^ou were establishing the point for Mr. Landis.